State of the Planet (2000)

Genre

documentary television program

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 3 episodes

Rating

7.9 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary series presents David Attenborough investigating the state of the Earth's ecosystems. He talks to scientists about the ecological crisis facing the planet and what can be done about it.

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What happens

State of the Planet is a three-part environmental documentary series, made by the BBC Natural History Unit, transmitted in November 2000. It is written and presented by David Attenborough, and produced by Rupert Barrington. It includes interviews with many leading scientists, such as Edward O. Wilson and Jared Diamond. Each of the programmes attempts to find answers to the potential ecological crisis that threatens the Earth. The series was specially commissioned by BBC One for the millennium, and had a budget of around GBP2 million. The BBC drew criticism for scheduling the first episode in competition with the final part of ITV's Inspector Morse; as a consequence, it drew just 4 million viewers, well below the channel's typical share. However, ratings recovered to around 7 million for the second and third programmes. Attenborough fronted this series in between presenting his 1998 ornithological study, The Life of Birds, and providing narration to the award-winning 2001 series The Blue Planet. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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