BRIT Award winning and Mercury Prize-nominated singer-songwriter JADE and multiple Academy Award-winning composer Hans Zimmer today unveil Into The Deep (Seas Cry), an original new song created exclusively for the launch of Blue Planet III, the highly anticipated return of BBC Studios Natural History Unit’s landmark ocean series narrated by Sir David Attenborough.
Blue Planet 3 is coming (Image credit @ Sophie Williams)
The song receives its first global play this morning on BBC Radio 1’s Breakfast Show with Greg James, before accompanying the world premiere of the extended Blue Planet III trailer tonight at 7pm BST released on BBC Earth and BBC social platforms. Jade said on air this morning, “this is the best thing I’ve ever done”.
Written by JADE, Zimmer and Thom Lukas of the Emmy and BAFTA-winning Bleeding Fingers Music team, the sweeping new track has been created especially for the historic return of one of television’s most loved and influential brands, 25 years after the original The Blue Planet captivated audiences around the world and transformed our understanding of life beneath the waves.
Combining JADE’s distinctive sound with Zimmer’s cinematic scale, Into The Deep (Seas Cry) provides the perfect emotional backdrop to this breathtaking first-look footage and extraordinary stories at the heart of Blue Planet III.
JADE says: “I’ve been a huge fan of Blue Planet for many years and have so many memories of watching the show throughout both childhood and adulthood. Sir David Attenborough is a true hero of mine. Being part of Blue Planet III in this way feels incredibly special and a real privilege. I’m so proud of Into The Deep (Seas Cry) and it was amazing to create it with Hans Zimmer and his team. I can’t wait for people to hear it and see the beautifully moving new trailer.”
The collaboration continues the long-running creative partnership between Hans Zimmer, Bleeding Fingers Music and BBC Studios’ Natural History Unit, which has seen some of the world’s biggest recording artists create original music inspired by the natural world.
From Radiohead for Blue Planet II to collaborations involving Sia, RAYE, Camila Cabello and SEVENTEEN, these bespoke tracks have become defining moments in the launch campaigns of the BBC’s biggest natural history series events, connecting TV, music and culture in powerful new ways.
Thom Lukas, Bleeding Fingers Music said: “Blue Planet III offered an extraordinary opportunity to explore and translate the depths of the ocean through an expansive sonic lens. Working with JADE, we set out to capture the brilliant light, deep shadows and intense emotional gravity of life beneath the waves. We’re honoured to collaborate with the BBC on this series and help bring this vast underwater world to life.”
As we celebrate this new chapter for Blue Planet, we also pause to remember the late George Fenton, whose iconic score for the original series helped define one of television’s most cherished natural history landmarks. Over more than two decades, George composed many of the Natural History Unit’s most memorable soundtracks, from The Trials of Life to Frozen Planet, bringing extraordinary emotion, scale and wonder to stories of the natural world. Whether playful, intimate or truly epic, his music became inseparable from the images it accompanied and inspired generations of viewers around the world. Our thoughts are with his family, friends and colleagues at this sad time.
Blue Planet returns to BBC One and BBC iPlayer with Blue Planet III this autumn, 25 years after the original series transformed audiences’ understanding of life beneath the waves. Narrated by Sir David Attenborough, the new series reveals extraordinary stories from some of the planet’s most important and least understood marine environments, filmed using cutting-edge technology, with an original score and soundtrack by Hans Zimmer and Bleeding Fingers Music.
Full music credits: Into The Deep (Seas Cry) – Hans Zimmer and Thom Lukas for Bleeding Fingers Music, featuring JADE. Lyrics by Jade Thirlwall, Pablo Bowman and Fin Dow-Smith. Into The Deep (Seas Cry ) will be available to stream and download globally from 7pm on Tuesday 6th October.
Blue Planet III, a 6×60’ series is a BBC Studios Natural History Unit Production, in partnership with The Open University for BBC One, iPlayer and BBC AMERICA co-produced with ZDF and France Télévisions in association with Skai Greece. It was commissioned by Jack Bootle, Head of Commissioning, Specialist Factual and the Commissioning Editor is Tom Watt-Smith, BBC Head of Natural History. The Executive Producer is Elizabeth White. Series Producers are Lara Bickerton and James Brickell, Matt Cotton is the Line Producer and Dulcie Arnold is the Production Executive.