ET on BBC America, with episodes simultaneously on AMC+, and will follow a weekly release schedule through March.In January, when “One Ocean” came to these shores-via BBC America, with a simulcast extending to its corporate-sibling cable channels-about three million Americans watched.
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It boasts the series will feature "featuring dramatic new behaviors, intimate stories, and sensational natural spectacles filmed for the very first time." Like its predecessors, the series is six parts, plus a "Making Of" special, the latter of which will feature Attenborough's official plea to force world leaders to do something about climate change.įrozen Planet II premieres Saturday, January 28, 2023, at 8 p.m. Like Planet Earth II and Blue Planet II, the BBC Studios’ world-renowned Natural History Unit filmed the seven-episode sequel in ultra-high definition using the latest technology. Sadly, the series did not make the deadline, but the BBC continues to have it on the schedule as upcoming in 2023. No shade to Sigourney Weaver, but we accept no substitutions here at Telly Visions.) Frozen Planet II was supposed to be followed by Planet Earth III, initially planned to debut in time for the BBC centenary. (Only the original Planet Earth series made the extraordinary miscalculation of replacing him with an American narrator for the 2006 U.S.
Frozen Planet II will also cover new ground and revisit areas from the first series and will almost certainly be a much louder klaxon a decade on.Īs has been the case with all his famous docuseries, Attenborough will narrate all six episodes of the series, as well as making brief appearances as host. In the intervening time, Attenborough has made both Planet Earth II (2016) and Blue Planet II (2017), which, in addition to breaking new ground, used their sequel status to highlight how fast the planet is changing. Like Blue Planet, Frozen Planet was a more focused series covering stuff Planet Earth skimmed, taking a long hard look at the planet's polar regions over seven one-hour episodes.Įven back then, Frozen Planet served as a call to action on Attenborough's part, begging viewers to care about climate change and discussing the melting of these regions and the collapse of ecosystems.
Planet Earth followed five years later, in 2006, using groundbreaking filming technology, followed by Frozen Planet five years onward in 2011. after the wild success of his Life on Earth series, first started the Planet Earth franchise with The Blue Planet in 2001, with explored the world's oceans.
Now, BBC America has announced the icy series will arrive in the dead of winter here in the U.S., with a debut on both the network and streamer AMC+ at the end of January 2023.Īttenborough, who became famous in the U.S. The first of his two new projects in the Planet Earth series announced in 2019 has come to fruition, Frozen Planet II, which debuted on the BBC back in the fall. Though one of his few British contemporaries still remaining, Queen Elizabeth finally passed in 2022 (she was all of a few weeks older), he's still going. national treasure David Attenborough has been making documentary specials about the natural world for 70+ years.
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