TORONTO — Blue Ant Media today announced the latest documentary series from Sir David Attenborough (above), The Green Planet, which explores Earth’s biodiversity and the hidden life of plants, will premiere in Canada on BBC Earth on July 6 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
“Using pioneering new filmmaking technology and the latest science, The Green Planet takes viewers on an immersive journey from the deepest jungles to the harshest deserts, revealing the strange and wonderful world of plants as never seen before,” reads a description of the five-part series in a press release.
“Living secret, unseen lives, plants are often overlooked. Yet they are as aggressive, competitive and dramatic as animals — locked in life-and-death struggles for food and light, taking part in fierce battles for territory and desperately trying to reproduce and scatter their young.”
The docuseries was filmed in 27 countries over four years, and it “includes stops in Canada to capture Maple trees waking from hibernation and Lodgepole pines being attacked by mountain pine beetles,” the release says.
The Green Planet uses “pioneering motion-control robotics systems” to take viewers “on a magical journey, going beyond the power of the human eye to make visible the amazing, hidden life of plants,” the release explains.
“Thermal cameras, macro frame-stacking, ultra-high-speed cameras and the latest developments in microscopy reveal the lives of plants and their incredible beauty.”
The series marks the first time Attenborough has returned to filming the world of plants since his 1995 series The Private Life of Plants. “Now in 2022, Sir David believes we are living at the perfect time to revisit the plant world,” the release says.
“There has been a revolution worldwide in attitudes towards the natural world in my lifetime — an awakening and an awareness of how important the natural world is to us all,” Attenborough said in the press release.
“An awareness that we would starve without plants, we wouldn’t be able to breathe without plants. Yet people’s understanding about plants, except in a very kind of narrow way, has not kept up with that. I think this series will bring it home.”
Presented and narrated by Attenborough, The Green Planet is a BBC Studios’ Natural History Unit production for BBC and PBS, and co-produced by the Open University, bilibili, ZDF German Television, France Télévisions and NHK.
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