Awsome yet again!

Agreed.

Breathtaking footage.

Makes me wish I had HD!

Wildlife porn. It was good but pretty random…..

See that hippo and his squadron of ladies!

yeah it was good but not much 'life' going on I thought they were going to show how animals defended themselves instead all but the seal got munched

That seal did a pretty good job of chopping up the penguin!

Amazing on HD, stunning!

Brilliant programme!

Missed it, anyone know when it's repeated?

Stunning footage but it seemed like natural history for the ipod generation, just skipping from snippet to snippet when just a bit of explanation would have added a lot to all the scenes. Disappointed.

Favourite shot was the line of killer whales bearing down on that seal trying to hide behind the ice floe…

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I have total admiration for David Attenborough as a broadcaster,especially his input into the early years of BBC2, but I find most of the BBCs natural history output amazingly dumbed down. Collosal budgets spent bringing us 'even more spectacular than the last' footage in super-hyper-mega-hi-definition of the worlds most charismatic mega fauna.
Its as if they've admitted defeat in trying to interest or genuinely educate anybody in the more subtle but still beautiful aspects of life.
Where are the documentaries on marine polychaetes?, or Salticus scenicus?, or synodontis catfish?.
even sometimes excellent programmes like The Natural World seem to have been scaled back in favour of more easily syndicated ( hence worth a bit! )epics.
Ach, maybe I'm getting old! (rant caps off)

Missed it, anyone know when it's repeated?

Saturday 17:30 – BBC HD
Saturday 19:30 – BBC2

Or iPlayer

I had to turn it off – stunning visuals but Attenborough's voiceover just grates on me. Yes he's a man of venerable years but these days his voice is far to sybillant/lispy to listen to for long – sounds like he's talking with half a pack of Werthers Originals in his mouth. Fantastic camera work, keep Attenborough for some of the intros, but get some new blood in to do the main voice overs.

Life was nice to llok at but a bit lacking in content. Attenborough is a cock IMO ever since the Private Life of plants did almost a whole episode on Fungi.

Yeah, coming round here, talking about funghi like he's all that. Who does he think he is? 😕

Attenborough is a cock IMO ever since the Private Life of plants did almost a whole episode on Fungi.

Elloquent as ever Andy! 😉

Yeah, coming round here, talking about funghi like he's all that. Who does he think he is?

I think the point is that funghi aren't actually plants, they're funghi.

So they're basically plants with a pedantry complex 🙂

Attenborough is a cock IMO ever since the Private Life of plants did almost a whole episode on Fungi.

That plants series was ace. I'm not sure how many times I have seen a leopard seal harassing penguins now but it seems to be a staple feature of BBC Wildlife productions these days and those orca were not trying hard enough!

I think the point is that funghi aren't actually plants, they're funghi.

I think the point of that episode was the symbiotic/parasitic relationship between funghi and the plants they live on.

Besides I'm sure most "normal" folk would think of funghi as plants, just as most would consider a tomato to be a vegetable and think that bananas grow on trees.

Stunning footage and I like the "Making of…" bit at the end as well but as mentioned above it did seem to be skipping around a bit, jumping from one stunning visual to the next. It's often been the way with the documentaries that Attenborough has fronted but it's a lot more noticeable when it's just his narration to carry it.

But I'd rather have one decent natural history programme than any number of I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Dancing On Ice Out Here spin off shite.

whilst on the subject, i have just seen the fancy advert again. What is that scorpion/crab/crayfish that fires the missiles?

i miss being able to watch BBC nature series. the BBC sell a lot of their prgrammes so they do eventually come onto (german, in my case) TV, but the entire series comes out in one extra long episode. means that lots of bits are dropped. plus, it's not the same without attenborough.

i met him once. don't remember as i was about 2 years old. got a couple of books signed by him.

As others. Stunning looking, but insulting and patronising in the assumptions it makes about what viewers can cope with absorbing.

Besides I'm sure most "normal" folk would think of funghi as plants

Which is my point. Fungi are as closely related to plants as a blue whale is a cabbage.

Stunning footage but it seemed like natural history for the ipod generation, just skipping from snippet to snippet when just a bit of explanation would have added a lot to all the scenes. Disappointed.

I agree completely. It was incoherent, and whilst the photography and Attenborough's voiceover are always a pleasure, it all seemed rather unfulfilling. A Big mac instead of rump steak.

Stunning footage, especially as I have HD but new info? No, sorry. Very poor as a documentary and once again a bit at the end telling us how it's done. I think it's sort of wearing thin and it needs more dedicated information of each animal to be seen as a hit series. So all show and no go I'm afraid which was very dissapointing 🙁

The producer was on radio 5 yesterday. Apparently the rest are not all snippets, but follow some kind of topic.

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Stunning footage but it seemed like natural history for the ipod generation,

+1.

I turned it off after about 20 minutes, when even my kids lost interest.

Just watched it on BBC4. Amazing footage, really enjoyed it.