Cate Blanchett narrates the Netflix series Our Living World, which premieres April 17. The four-part series looks at the extraordinary creatures around the globe. 

Netflix calls it “a revealing look at the secret network of connections that unites us all and sustains our planet’s most magical phenomenon: life itself.”

Wild Space and Freeborne Media produce the series. 

James Honeyborne is the executive producer. Ben Roy is a producer, Mark Robertson and Steve Barnes are editors and Katie Hall is head of production. 

Honeyborne explained why Blanchett is right to narrate on Netflix’s Tudum site. “We found it very natural for her to speak with authority on the subject,” he said. “She is a beekeeper, so she has such a natural affinity for the subject and knows a lot about ecology.”

The production team previously produced Our Great National Parks. Debuting on Netflix in 2022, that docuseries has five episodes. Former president Barack Obama narrated and executive produced. 

Our Living World episodes run around 50 minutes. 

Netflix teases reindeer in the Arctic, rhinos in Nepal, hippos in Botswana, agoutis in the Amazon, and other wildlife “from Angola to New Zealand” in the new docuseries. 

From Australia, Blanchett’s credits include films The Lord of the Rings, Thor: Ragnarok, Blue Jasmine and Tár, and TV series Mrs. America and Disclaimer. 

FX has greenlit a new limited drama series, Mrs. America, starring Cate Blanchett, the network announced Tuesday.

The series explores the true story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), said network officials. Blanchett – in her first role in an American television series – plays conservative political activist Phyllis Schlafly. Through the eyes of Schlafly and other women of the era -- Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug and Jill Ruckelshaus -- - the series explores how one of the toughest battlegrounds in the culture wars of the 70s helped give rise to the Moral Majority and forever shifted our political landscape, said FX.

Ms. America creator and writer Dahvi Waller (Mad Men) will serve as showrunner for the nine-episode series, with Waller, Blanchett, Stacey Sher and Coco Francini serving as executive producers.

“Cate Blanchett is one the great actors of our time – and we are truly honored to have her star in Mrs. America,” said FX Networks and FX Productions CEO John Landgraf in a statement. “We have no doubt that Cate is the perfect actor to play the role of Phyllis Schlafly, who was one of the most polarizing and fascinatingly complex figures of the ‘70s for her opposition to and role in defeating the Equal Rights Amendment, which to this day has never been ratified. Dahvi Waller’s scripts are extraordinary, and I’m thrilled to re-unite with my former Jersey TV partner Stacey Sher, and commend her on assembling such a dynamic foursome of gifted, female, artist-producers to take on this timely story.“