Planet Earth is a twelve part mini-series that originally aired on Discovery Channel in April and has been rerunning on Animal Planet every Wednesday night. This show is kind of old news, but I have been obsessed with it since it came out and am a little stumped as to why I haven't posted on this earlier. This was a collaboration between BBC and Discovery, and the results are beautiful and utterly mesmerizing.
Each episode takes a small theme, like forests or jungles or plains or fresh water, and chronicles the animals and planets that live and thrive in these areas. They've accumulated footage for the past five years and each episode is estimated to be about ten million each. The results are jaw dropping. They were made for high definition television, and to watch it on anything else is a crime.
Moreover, there are TONS of never-before-scene footage of animals doing very rare things. Each episode has at least one of these moments that are bound to leave you wondering how they caught them on tape. I would post online video of some of these moments, but that is not doing the show justice. I mean, twenty tigers killing an elephant? a deep-sea octopus with tentacles that light up? multiple Bird of Paradise mating dances? a gnu being eaten by an alligator? a fox stealing gosslings? The list goes on and on.
From the abundance of footage gathered, a movie is slated to come out soon to all theaters AND Imax. It's going to be awesome. Moreover, it is also on DVD. But, beware, the one sold at most local retailers is the BBC, David Attenborough nattarted DVD set. The Discovery Channel, Sigourney Weaver narrated DVD set is only sold at Discovery Channel retailers (this one is better: Weaver is a stellar narrator).
2 comments:
My sister is very obsessed with this. She is studying to be a veterinarian and keeps on trying to make me be interested in science. Sometimes she tricks me and it works, especially in the case of light-up tentacles. SO COOL.
Its not as good as the david attenborough original.
They took out his dialouge and put sigorney weaver? i dunno its lamer
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