As someone living in the UK, with access to the BBC's HD trial channel, I can tell you American's you are in for a treat, it is a simply stunning series. The BBC at their best.
Yes and it IS a BBC programme. I have been appalled at the way that Discovery has tried to pass this series off at their creation when it was filmed by the BBC's world renowned Natural History Unit. Just because Discovery put up some cash to secure the North America rights doesn't justify their hopeless decision to replace David Attenborough's fantastic narration with an insipid Sigourney Weaver and take the BBC contribution out of all publicity and materials.
Compare the ridiculous Discovery channel trailer (music, editing and Mr America voice of a Bruckheimer film) with that of the uplifting class of the BBC version (to the inspired soundtrack of "Hoppipola" by Sigur Ros". Even the basic editing of the first two episodes of the Discovery version is inferior ot that of the BBC's.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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As someone living in the UK, with access to the BBC's HD trial channel, I can tell you American's you are in for a treat, it is a simply stunning series. The BBC at their best.
Yes and it IS a BBC programme. I have been appalled at the way that Discovery has tried to pass this series off at their creation when it was filmed by the BBC's world renowned Natural History Unit. Just because Discovery put up some cash to secure the North America rights doesn't justify their hopeless decision to replace David Attenborough's fantastic narration with an insipid Sigourney Weaver and take the BBC contribution out of all publicity and materials.
Compare the ridiculous Discovery channel trailer (music, editing and Mr America voice of a Bruckheimer film) with that of the uplifting class of the BBC version (to the inspired soundtrack of "Hoppipola" by Sigur Ros". Even the basic editing of the first two episodes of the Discovery version is inferior ot that of the BBC's.