David E. Kelley & Norcross Productions Launch Live Migrations Nature Series

David E. Kelley is heading into nature, teaming with Norcross Productions to launch Live Migrations, a global live nature series that connects audiences with the world’s great animal migrations.

The series kicks off today, Wednesday, August 18, with its inaugural production, The Great Sockeye Migration, a live, multi-camera journey into the heart of the world’s greatest wild salmon run in Bristol Bay, Alaska.

The livestream, which you can view at livemigrations.com and YouTube.com, will allow audiences worldwide to witness the sockeyes’ extraordinary return from the Pacific Ocean to the rivers and streams where they were born, according to the series’ official description. “With extended, unhurried views and the natural sounds of the landscape, The Great Sockeye Migration offers a radically different kind of television: one that invites viewers to pause, observe and experience a major natural event as it unfolds in real time.”

The inaugural livestream is set in the Bristol Bay watershed, home to the most abundant wild sockeye salmon runs remaining on Earth. The production will follow the salmon through a landscape that has sustained Alaska Native peoples and communities for generations, and allows the story to unfold at the pace of the animals themselves, per the description.

Each livestream will combine real-time observation with educational and cultural context, helping viewers understand the animals, ecosystems and human communities connected to these journeys.

“Live Migrations allows you to slow down and connect with nature and this extraordinary species,” said Kelley. “If people could only sit by a river and feel the salmon… watching a live migration is the next best thing.”

Future Live Migrations productions are planned around the journeys of sandhill cranes, whales, wildebeest and monarch butterflies.

“Live Migrations grew out of a simple idea: What if television, a medium built to capture our attention, could also return it?” said Live Migrations creator and Norcross Productions founder Tucker Malarkey. “These animals are undertaking ancient, perilous journeys all around us. By slowing down and watching together, we begin to understand what is at stake—and why these migrations must endure.”

Live Migrations also acknowledges that it is filming on the ancestral and living lands and waters of the Alaska Native peoples of Bristol Bay, and “offers its deep respect to their communities, cultures and enduring traditions, and its gratitude for their stewardship of this extraordinary place and its wild salmon across generations.”

“We are not the owners of these stories,” Malarkey said. “We are their temporary stewards. Our hope is to create a place where people can return—to watch the migrations happening now and feel connected to the living world in real time.”