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| Author: | Bovine Juice [ Mon Nov 13, 2006 12:02 am ] |
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If there's a better programme on TV at the moment than this I want to know what it is. The footage tonight with the lions attacking the elephants was grizzly but gripping. |
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| Author: | dookerdoo [ Mon Nov 13, 2006 1:59 am ] |
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bummed i missed it. nearly cried last week at the polar bear lying down to die of hunger and exhaustion having struggled across the breaking ice for weeks, swum 60 miles out to sea and failed to make inroads into that island full of walruses. and the final "get the gun ready!" comment that the cameramen made on finding another starving bear poking it's nose into their candle-lit game of gin rummy was pretty gripping stuff too. amazing. |
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| Author: | wurzel [ Mon Nov 13, 2006 10:59 am ] |
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| Author: | Captain Howdy [ Mon Nov 13, 2006 1:29 pm ] |
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It's repeated on BBC4 a week later - hence the "lions hunting elephants" episode will be on at 7pm next Sunday. There's also a "family friendly" edition (ie, with some of the nastier moments cut out) on BBC1 some time during the week. Yes, it was beautifully filmed stuff and the "diary" section at the end was - for once - every bit as gripping as the main body of the programme. Driving around in the dark, following starving and desperate lions in an open-top car? And having to change a tyre while surrounded by the same lions? I wonder what their life-insurance premiums are like? (As a footnote, I normally object to these "diary" things because they're only there to allow the main programme to only last 50 minutes. That, in turn, makes it easier for the BBC to sell its programmes to America and other commercial channels which need to stuff adverts in them. And, usually, they're just rather repetative tales about how a camerman had to sit in a field for seven years to get two seconds of film.) The other excellent prog on at the moment is The Power of Art. Obviously, it doesn't have the emotional wallop of the the Natural World but it's well-made, intelligent TV and Simon Schama is very good at evaluating the art and putting it in its historical context (he is, in case you don't know, an art historian rather than a historian per se). |
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| Author: | Bovine Juice [ Mon Nov 13, 2006 2:36 pm ] |
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| Author: | Cavey [ Mon Nov 13, 2006 5:11 pm ] |
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| Author: | Captain Howdy [ Mon Nov 13, 2006 5:24 pm ] |
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