You Know Those Beautiful BBC Wildlife Films? They’re Fake
Veteran BBC cameraman, Doug Allen confirmed in a recent convocation speech at a UK university that scenes in BBC wildlife documentaries are regularly filmed in artificial sets to guarantee the quality of the shots.
BBC Africa – The Series That You’ll Want To Own On Box Set [VIDEO]
For over four years, the BBC searched the African continent to find and film unfamiliar wildlife, surprising behaviour and new landscapes for the BBC’s new Africa series. The Africa series is however drawing to a close, with only one geographic still to be covered on BBC Knowledge, DSTV Channel 184. Episode one was filmed […]
David Attenborough Narrates Tortoise Mating A Shoe – With Support From Cameron Diaz
David Attenborough recently visited the Graham Norton show, and shared the stage with the likes of Cameron Diaz. Norton played a clip of a tortoise making sweet love to a shoe (we won’t mention the brand of the shoe, as we wouldn’t want to offend) and asked David Attenborough to narrate that particular miracle of […]
BBC Removed Climate Change Episode From Natural History Series To Sell Better
“Frozen Planet” is the latest big-budget series from the BBC’s Natural History Unit; its seventh and last episode deals with global warming. Except apparently climate change isn’t that big of a deal, because the BBC has dropped that episode from its international line-up to help sell the series outside of Britain.
David Attenborough Joins Campaign To Ban Creationism In Schools
Sir David Attenborough is one of the world’s most well-known scientists and natural history film-makers. He has now thrown his weight behind a campaign in the UK to have the teaching of creationism and intelligent design banned outright from school curricula. He is joined by 30 other leading scientists and campaign groups, including the British Science Association.