Discovery Networks International have greenlit development on The Thaw - our brand new factual series alongside co-partners at NERD.
At its heart this is a series about global warming. It tracks a group of explorers and scientists at they head to those new parts of the world only now being exposed through the process of glacial retreat and global warming. It's a perilous world in extremis - survival in -40c, ground breaking discoveries, viruses, reanimated mammoths, frozen battlefields, frozen history.
The Thaw is about the future of mankind as new worlds open up to us. And it is about our past as hidden histories are exposed...