#narrated by Tom Hiddleston

[platypusesforarms]

Snow Leopard & Himalayan Ibex | EarthSounds: The Himalayas

Snow Leopards' hearing is three times more sensitive than ours, allowing them to pick out faint noises from miles away. They listen out for one particular animal: Himalayan Ibex.

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Tom Hiddleston To Narrate Apple Wildlife Series ‘Big Beasts’

EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+ is continuing its natural history push.

The streamer is launching new wildlife series Big Beasts, narrated by Tom Hiddleston.

The series, which has been in the works for two years, takes viewers around the globe, from freezing poles to tropical rainforests, to meet nature’s most captivating giants.

It features massive species filmed across 17 countries, including the gray whale, the elephant seal, the giant otter, the gorilla, the hippopotamus, the brown bear, the ostrich, the orangutan, the tiger and the polar bear. Viewers will see that it’s not easy being big—the larger the animal, the greater the challenges they face.

Big Beasts comes from the creative team of Apple’s Tiny World, which launched in 2020 and was narrated by Paul Rudd. It is produced by ITV-owned Plimsoll Productions with Tom Hugh-Jones (Planet Earth II), Grant Mansfield (Hostile Planet) and Martha Holmes (Life) exec producing.

Alongside Tiny World, it is the latest wildlife series for the streamer, Earth Night At Color, which was also narrated by Tom Hiddleston, and Prehistoric Planet, narrated by David Attenborough with Job Favreau as showrunner.

The ten-part series will premiere on April 21, just before Earth Day.

[thezfc]

Put your AirPods in and push play.

You’re welcome 😆

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[in-my-loki-feels]

Still very slowly making my way through Earthsounds. It's the perfect de-stress watch so I'm trying not to binge it all in one go.

This isn't as funny as the last clip I posted but it was very cute so I decided to share.

[samsayswhatever]

As I was scrolling over this post my brain was like - oh damn. Oh Damn. Oh daMM. oH DAHm 😂😂😂

Tom Hiddleston - Loki Season 2 Stills

[dandelionjack]

my marvel marathon plans have been inspired by starting to watch Loki (the show) last night, realising i lack context, but wanting to continue. because what it basically feels like is a secret, hidden series of doctor who — down to the “time keepers” looking EXACTLY like time lords. i mean EXACTLY. high collars and all. and five minutes in the narrating cartoon clock thingy starts describing the anchoring of the thread. judging from this + rogue, kate herron is soooooo the next dw showrunner this was her trial run. and honestly there are some brilliant timey wimey concepts here like the punch that makes you go slow-motion

shame that this fuckass thing led to disney trying to copyright the names of actual norse gods … makes it feel like i’m almost immoral and hypocritical for watching it … at least i’m pirating. whatever. tom hiddleston is hot (<-never before seen revolutionary opinion)

[fireladybuckley]

HELP ME DECIDE WHAT AUDIOBOOK TO LISTEN TO PLEASE i am going insane with indecision 😭

Fellowship - I’ve been trying to get through reading this book for years and can never manage it no thanks to Tom bombadil so I thought maybe the audiobook will finally carry me through. Plus I just got a LotR Lego set so I’m in a bit of a Tolkien mood.

Red necklace - this would be a re-listen. Not the greatest book (about the French Revolution and Romani people and some mystic and confusing magic… could be interesting but writing is a bit weak), but Tom Hiddleston narrates it and is absolutely delightful and does like a dozen different accents extremely well

Jurassic park - been wanting to read/listen to the book for a long time, I’m a big fan of the first movie and I’m curious to see how the book and movie differ, plus it’s science-y and I love that

Axiom’s End - novel written by one of my favourite video essayists, narrated partially by one of my other favourite video essayists. I don’t know much about it except that it’s dystopian and set in the early/mid 00’s.

[twh-news]

The 12th edition of Soccer Aid is set to take place at Old Trafford on Sunday in aid of UNICEF.

Lionesses star Jill Scott will captain an England squad that includes several former England internationals, as well as the likes of Danny Dyer and Tom Hiddleston, plus many more famous faces. England are up against Usain Bolt’s World XI that contains former football stars Roberto Carlos, Francesco Totti, Patrice Evra and Hernan Crespo, plus UFC champion Leon Edwards and boxer Tommy Fury.

New Chelsea boss Mauricio Pochettino will be managing the World XI, while Harry Redknapp, Emma Hayes and Stormzy are leading the England coaching staff.

Soccer Aid was started by Robbie Williams and Jonathan Wilkes in 2006 and has been an annual event since 2018. A huge crowd is expected at Old Trafford for the charity match, which was won by the World XI last year, via a Lee Mack spot kick in a penalty shootout.

Here’s how to watch the game this weekend:

Is Soccer Aid 2023 on TV?

The match is being broadcast in the UK on ITV 1, with coverage starting at 6.30pm on Sunday. Soccer Aid will also be available to view on STV or online, via ITVX.

The game will kick-off at 7.30pm and the programme will include post-match reaction until 10pm. Dermot O’Leary and Alex Scott will be part of the presenting team, while Sam Matterface and Love Island narrator Iain Stirling will be in the commentary box.

[uhlikzsuzsanna]

Big Beasts | Apple TV+

"You didn’t get smaller. The beasts just got bigger. From the creators of Tiny World, Big Beasts is now streaming on AppleTV+" 

Source: twitter 

 Episodes 1 & 2 of Big Beasts are available on Apple TV+ now.

[platypusesforarms]

Eucalypt trees | EarthSounds: Australian Forests

[mischief-lies-and-stories]

Loki spin-off ideas

I'm going to preface this by saying, I do not think we will ever get a Loki spin-off. But that doesn't mean I can't think about all the great possibilities there could be. And also I am quickly running out of ideas again.

Spoilers for Loki.

TVA workplace comedy, featuring B-15 Verity, Casey, OB, on occasion Sylvie and Mobius, and introducing new (queer) characters. Casey and OB stumble their way into a relationship, Verity once and for all establishes that she can detect lies, Mobius is sad until in the season finale (with special guest star Tom Hiddleston!) someone figures out how to get him to Loki. And we get Lokius in the last ten seconds, because they pull a Will Shatner and purposely ruin every other take that isn't them making the fuck out.

TVA training shorts, featuring Miss Minutes (ugh), reminiscent of those high school PSAs they made Cap do ("So you got detention," etc.), but animated in the style of the introductory video Loki watched in the first episode. You could also have a second season of them as an updated version following the dissolution of the Sacred Timeline and how the branches are seen as good things now. Maybe the new ones are narrated by members of the Time Revengers, since Miss Minutes is still being rehabilitated. (I'm still deciding if the idea of listening to Mobius tell the story of how the multiversal tree was created would be heartbreaking even if he managed to remain professional and not break down in tears, or if it would be really sweet that he gets assigned that video.)

Lokis in the void, following mainly Kid Loki and (if we retcon it, set this before the show, or he somehow survived) Classic Loki, but also ridiculous schemes of President Loki (yuck, no thank you) that constantly get thwarted. The B-plot is Alligator Loki sneaking off and getting up to some shit in an anti-Perry the Platypus running gag. (Wait, maybe I just want a Phineas and Ferb parody where every character is a Loki and it takes place in the void. That could be so stupid it's hilarious.)

Classic Loki in Valhalla please I need it. Like we start similarly to the events of my fic After, where Classic Loki arrives in Valhalla and reunites at long last with Thor (don't ask me how, I know technically his timeline was reset). Then the show continues with Classic Loki and Thor getting up to hijinks in Valhalla, maybe scheming to break out of Valhalla (a storyline for Loki in various contexts I've played around with a few times). We could have different characters from the Thor movies and comics in Valhalla, but since they're all dead, they're all played by older actors. You could make some easy, low-hanging old jokes (back pain every time they use their weapon, etc.), but they're gods and they're dead, so technically they should be fine. They're just old and dead. (But like, Tony Stark is for sure in Valhalla, too. You could have some frostiron going on. Or Fandral. He's there, too, Ewing.)

Mobius's adventures in the multiverse, just episodes of him traveling through time and experiencing it (I'm realizing now that this is basically just the premise for Doctor Who...). Also going on in this series is obviously Mobius missing Loki and looking for a way to get to him. Of course (because this is my show and I say so), the series would end with them reuniting and confessing and staying together, either in the tree if need be or in the wider multiverse if Loki is able to leave the tree. And there would certainly be episodes throughout the show featuring the other members of our Time Revengers. Maybe the workplace comedy and this show are occurring simultaneously. (Like one episode of TVA someone's like "Where's Verity?" "Oh she's on a mission." And you're like oh the actor has a break or is filming something else, and then later that week the episode of Mobius airs and THERE'S VERITY!)

Sylvie in Broxton. That's it, that's the show. Just Sylvie living her best life in the small town, working at McDonald's, hanging out at Lyle's record store, ignoring 90% of the calls on her TemPad (unless it's Mobius, because in spite of herself, she's a little worried about him).

[turquoisephoenix]

If that rumored Medievil movie does happen and they do the typical hire a big name actor to play the main character like say they got Tom Hiddleston to be Sir Dan.

The funniest thing they could do is to market the heck out of Tom Hiddleston being Dan, there’s countless interviews where he’s like “this is a dream come true” or “I really had to work hard to get into character”. Don’t even reveal or imply how Dan actually sounds like.

Then the movie comes out and he voices living Dan for about 6 minutes until he dies, comes back as a skeleton and does nothing but Dan’s iconic mumbling.

I can picture the animated film trailer now...

[sweeping shot of a grassy medieval countryside as a pan flute plays. Various animation logos pop up.]

Esteemed British narrator (v/o): Long ago, in the kingdom of Gallowmere, there lived a daring knight...

[Establishing shot of a man getting up out of bed with physical humor involved. The pan flute stops when he trips and falls, scattering furniture for a couple seconds as the only sounds are crashing effects before getting up and facing the camera. Close-up of Dan's face as he smiles, showing big goofy teeth.]

Esteemed British narrator (v/o): Named Dan.

[Smash cut to Sir Daniel training, with more physical humor punctuated by pained grunts and yells as triumphant music plays. It's a whole montage of him poorly swinging a sword, falling off a horse, and landing in mud puddles and horse manure. The kids in the audience are giggling.]

Tom Hiddleston (v/o): I just KNOW I'm destined to be somebody! I'm not going to go down in history as Sir Daniel the Goof or Sir Daniel the...Fall Down Things Guy!

[We're at the Battle of Gallowmere. The triumphant orchestra swells. Dan does his goofy smile that made the kids laugh as he stands in full armor in front of a bunch of other knights. Everyone is expecting him to trip and fall again]

Esteemed British narrator (v/o): There's just one problem...

[An arrow flies through the air and pierces Dan's helmet with a sickening crunch, causing him to fly backwards. The music stops as we focus on Dan's lifeless body on the ground.]

Esteemed British narrator (v/o): He's dead.

[sudden smash cut to the MediEvil logo]

Cover artist (v/o): BOOOOOOOONE TO BE WIIIIIIIIIILD....

[lokiondisneyplus]

Marvel Studios has reshuffled the release dates for its slate of television shows.

What If…? Echo, and Agatha: Coven of Chaos, now titled Agatha: Darkhold Diaries, are among the titles receiving new dates. The move comes amid Hollywood’s strikes as well as a general pullback at Disney+.

The writers strike began May 2 while the actors went on strike July 14, significantly impacting production and development. At the same time, sources say Marvel wants to focus its efforts to make each title an event for fans and audiences. The studio has decided that spreading out its content is a more prudent strategy.

It’s a far cry from last year’s San Diego Comic-Con, when Marvel unveiled plans for Phase 5 and Phase 6 of its movies and television shows. 2023 particularly heavy with shows, with five planned. (Only the spring’s Secret Invasion, October’s Loki and as The Hollywood Reporter can reveal, What If…? season two remain of that plan for this year.)

THR poked around the Marvel scheduling changes and here’s what sources say is the new rundown:

As previously announced, Loki season two will be the only show to hit this fall, debuting on Disney+ on Oct. 6. Despite what some call superhero fatigue, expectations remain high for the Tom Hiddleston-Owen Wilson-fronted series that centers on alternate timelines. The season two trailer had the biggest digital debut of a trailer for any Disney+ series, and season one remains the most-watched Marvel series on Disney+.

The second season of Emmy-winning animated series What If…? will debut around Christmas Day, although it should be noted the animated show is not a holiday-themed series. Like the namesake comic on which its premise is based, What If…? is an anthology series that looks at key moments in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and how they would look in different timelines. Jeffrey Wright returns as the voice of the Watcher, the alien narrator. What If…? was originally slated for an early 2023 release.  

Echo, a spin-off from last year’s hit Hawkeye, was originally announced for Nov. 29 but has now shifted to January 2024. The series stars Alaqua Cox as a one-time head of a criminal organization who returns to her hometown in Oklahoma to come to terms with her past. The series, which centers on a character who is deaf and of Native American descent, is described as having a grittier and more grounded tone than some of the other Marvel series and will feature appearances by Daredevil and villain The Kingpin. As previously announced, all the episodes will drop at the same time.

Next on the schedule will be X-Men ’97, the animated series that acts as a spiritual and tonal continuation of the classic 1990s series that aired on Fox. The series, first announced in 2021, was originally planned for a fall 2023 debut but will now premiere in early 2024 The show is being described, by sources who have seen it, as retro and a love letter to the original. A season two remains in the works.

Agatha, the WandaVision spinoff starring Kathryn Hahn, was originally announced for a winter 2023 release has been pushed back to early fall 2024, where it will serve as a lead-up to the Halloween holiday. The show, which completed its filming before the strikes, was previously titled Agatha: House of Harkness and then Agatha: Coven of Chaos before falling on its currently name, Agatha: Darkhold Diaries.

Ironheart, a show focused on  genius-inventor Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne) first introduced in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, was to have dropped this fall but that is now off the schedule. It finished shooting but its completion is affected by the strikes.

Daredevil: Born Again, a continuation of the Netflix series in the MCU, was expected to debut in spring 2024, paused in mid-production amid the strikes. Wonder Man, starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, was also paused in mid-production.

It is unclear where on the calendar the three series will end up.

[somebodysthoughtdaughter]

Vivi-Design EAH Fancast 2.0 (Pt.5)

Part 1: https://www.tumblr.com/childofmattel/735536666910015488/vivi-design-eah-fancast-20-pt-1

Part 2: https://www.tumblr.com/childofmattel/735638317217021952/vivi-design-eah-fancast-20-pt2

Part 3: https://www.tumblr.com/childofmattel/739329240523227137/eah-recast-pt3

Part 4: https://www.tumblr.com/childofmattel/739542620483747840/vivi-design-eah-fancast-20-pt4

Quannah Chasinghorse as Prudence

I only knew this women from Vivi's pinterest but I honestly think she's absoultely stunning. I think she matches the vibe of the stepsister from EAH and even though she's not an actress I still think she's an amazing FC.

Anna Lambe as Charlotte

I think Anna Lambe matches vivi's aesthetic extremely well. I also think from an aesthetic pov she matches with Quannah Chasinghorse's vibe as well.

This would be the end of Pt.5 but it seems to small so here are some fancast of characters that weren't in the Pinterest or the slides:

Wyatt Oleff as Tiny the Giant

Kylie Cantrall as Mira Shards

I saw Kylie Cantrall with pink hair and thought, "she looks a lot like Mira Shards." And now here we are

Sebastian Roché as Milton Grimm

Since vivi's EAH is a little darker, I think Sebastian Roché should be Milton Grimm because he kind of scares me lol. I also think his voice sounds a lot like Milton Grimm.

Jack Veal as Young Milton Grimm

Robert Carlyle as Giles Grimm

I was honestly so stumped when it came to a FC of Giles so I just stole this one from mycast. I'm glad I did though because lowkey this is a good Giles FC.

Julian Hillard as Young Giles Grimm

Gratiela Brancusi as Baba Yaga

Okay hear me out. I think Gratiela Brancusi would fit really well with Vivi's EAH. I also think she'd make a great Baba Yaga.

Melissa McCarthy as Trollsworth

Amy Hill as Hagatha

Mark Addy as Gingerbread Man

Christian Bale as Jack B. Nimble

This is super unrealistic but IDC. He looks so much like Jack B. Nimble.

Peter Dinklage as Rumpelstiltskin

Tom Hiddleston as Rebel Narrator

Tessa Thompson as Royal Narrator

Malia Baker as Brooke Page

Let me know what other EAH fancasts you want me to do. Part 6 will be all about the parents but if there's any other EAH fancast you want me to add let me know.

[joyful-enchantress]

HOLY…

He HAS to know what he’s doing at this point, dropping his voice even lower and adding that rasp.

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earthsounds #releasethehornybitchescut – ep 1: australian forests

Find all the Earthsounds audios here

Lawd help me I wasn't ready for some of the words that came out of this man's mouth in this episode, and we have 11 more to go 🥵🥵🥵

I gotta make like this otter and roll around in a tub of ice--

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New!!Earthsounds, narrated by Tom Hiddleston, premieres February 23 on Apple TV+!