It's more of a dramatization, but hopefully with at least some attempt to incorporate actual science, unlike disastrous jokes like the "10.5" miniseries.
This description pretty much covers every production staged by the Discovery channel the past few years. I've come to avoid Discovery in favor of other outlets like the History Channel due primarily to the huge liberties Discovery takes with facts in order to advance their own liberal views and theories. Even my 14 year old son picks them apart for direct "statements of fact" they regularly make in the various dramatizations which are backed up by absolutely nothing and should have been more accurately described as only theories that a few people believe and many others do not.