In the early 2000s, the BBC proved that it could rival Hollywood’s spectacle without blockbuster budgets, leveraging cutting-edge CGI and documentary rigour to pioneer a new breed of docudrama. While series like *Walking with Dinosaurs* (1999) resurrected prehistoric worlds, others ventured into speculative futures, exploring catastrophic “what if” scenarios with scientific precision. Among these, *Supervolcano* (20…







