TV: Planet Earth

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Originally Posted by votingfloater

It's a sad world where Peter Kay can put out three DVDs of the same material and Fist of Fun still isn't available.

true. that said, there's "bootleg" DVDs of This Morning With Richard Not Judy available to download if you look hard enough. i remember watching that on sunday mornings and being utterly stupified, and it still has the same impact now. brilliant stuff.

Originally Posted by votingfloater

I know Fothergill is writing the accompanying book, but I'd guess a lot of it - as ever - will have been contributed by the researchers.

almost certainly right. i was really just trying to make the point that David Attenborough's creative input into this series has been less than with the various "life" series that he has put out, hence the different approach of the programmes.

I think Attenborough has always been very keen to educate and inform rather than just stand back and say "look how cute this baby panda is. look at it. it's eyes aren't even open yet. isn't it just adorable? and now look how big and pretty this mountain is".

i think planet earth is great. it's absolutely beautiful and it's already broken a great deal of ground in terms of wildlife photography - a wild dog hunt, any snow leopard footage *at all* - in just two episodes. and wasn't that baby panda cute?


incidentally, there's a "life" boxset available on amazon, and probably other places too, that i just saw last night. I WANT IT SO BAD