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Exclusive: Loud Minds, the indie behind NBC and Peacock’s upcoming Surviving Earth docuseries, has staffed up with execs from Wall to Wall and Pioneer Productions.

Walking with Dinosaurs creator Tim Haines’ outfit has signed Will Aslett as Head of Development for unscripted content and Emma Parkin as Development Executive, reporting to Aslett.

Aslett joins from Wbd-owned Wall to Wall, where he most recently showran Netflix natural disaster series Earthstorm, which has similarities with Surviving Earth – the big-budget docuseries that is being co-produced with Universal Television Alternative Studio for NBC and Peacock. Past employers include Cineflix Media, Nutopia and the BBC.

Aslett is tasked with overseeing the indie’s cross-genre factual slate, with Parkin joining him from Pioneer Productions where she was most recently AP on an unannounced feature documentary. She has previously worked on the likes of Channel 5’s Dinosaurs with Stephen Fry and Netflix’s Our Living World.

Netflix is expiring a slew of movies and TV shows in February -- but don't panic! As we previously reported, several BBC series including "Doctor Who" and the original British "The Office" that were once set to leave Netflix on Feb. 1 are staying put. However, several other BBC titles will be disappearing Feb 1. According to Variety, bid a sad toodle-doo to "Fawlty Towers," "Blackadder" and "Mi:5." (Don't worry, "Sherlock" isn't due to expire anytime soon.)

As for movies, the clock is ticking on "Zodiac," "Batman Returns," "Apocalypse Now," and "Mad Max," which will also be pulled in the monthly purge.

Here's the complete list of titles that will vanish from your streaming list (pending any sort of meddling time-travelers):

Netflix Titles Expiring February 1, 2015

"A Bit Of Fry And Laurie" (1987-1995)

"Airheads" (1994)

"Allosaurus: Walking With Dinosaurs Special" (2001)

"Apocalypse Now" (1979)

"Apocalypse Now Redux" (2001)

"Auschwitz: Inside The Nazi State" (2005)

"Batman Returns" (1989)

"Blackadder...

About five minutes into David Krentz & Erik Nelson's CG animated feature, Dinotasia, the thought occurred to me that this film didn't look any better than any number of Discovery Channel TV programs. Suffice it to say, I was not surprised to learn Dinotasia does, in fact, find its origins in a Discovery Channel series titled Dinosaur Revolution. That being said, I'm a fan of those programs. My son and I watch shows like Clash of the Dinosaurs, Walking with Beasts, and Monsters Resurrected all the time. However, this film was marketed as a stand alone feature, and I feel as though that is a bit of a sketchy description.The ideas behind Dinotasia are certainly interesting. The filmmakers wanted to create short vignettes following one or two...

And this time, as per The Hollywood Reporter, those furriners who complain incessantly about the ignorance of U.S. citizens only have the right to give us 1/3 of the lumps for making Michael Bay's latest cinematic travesty a rousing financial success. The biggest success in the franchise, no less, with Transformers: Dark of the Moon's U.S. ticket sales currently around $340 million and the international gross boasting about $660 million. No doubt, some of the movie's box office mojo stems from it being released in 3D, "requiring" higher ticket prices, and that is likely a contributing factor for the other two movies that have reached the $1 billion mark this year, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part II, respectively.

Huh. Maybe it's the long ass titles that are the key?

Anyway...

Not only does this mean that Michael Bay will continue...