Planet Earth ....LIVE!

[Lordbenny]

Not very 'Live' as yet, unless you count Richard Hammond sitting in a directors chair talking...'Live'! Im sure It'll be great, its all the BBC can do right these days!

[y2blade]

We are watching it here too

[ajprice]

Me too.

[ajprice]

Planet Earth: PRERECORDED!!

[Lordbenny]

Ummmm, so far the few highlights have been the recorded images of monkeys 'bombing' into the water and some baby elephants....apart from that....too much Hammond, a bit disappointing. Hope it gets better over the weeks.

[Shaw Tarse]

Not too keen on the choice of presenters.
But bear cubs are cute.

[Granville]

The presenters don't work for me, but then Richard Hammond gets on my nerves regardless. Odd choice picking him for this kind of programme and Julia Bradbury is just on everything of late.

Very cute bear cubs though

[sinizter]

Caught the last of it ...

Not very 'live', but still good. Hammond is OK, the woman not so much - IMO. The program still works.

Edited by sinizter on Monday 7th May 10:08

[durbster]

Didn't really think much to the concept but didn't watch the whole thing so may be wrong. There's a reason Attenborough's documentaries take months to film and edit; nature spends the vast majority of its time doing sod all. I can't see how being there LIVE is going to make for good entertainment.

[sinizter]

durbster said:

Didn't really think much to the concept but didn't watch the whole thing so may be wrong. There's a reason Attenborough's documentaries take months to film and edit; nature spends the vast majority of its time doing sod all. I can't see how being there LIVE is going to make for good entertainment.

It's edited and they keep flicking from one location to another to avoid the time when nature does 'sod all'.

[oldmanbm]

Yes photography is excellent and concept promising but Richard Hammond has the emotional depth of a postage stamp and poor old Julia wants to back home with her first born. I also deeply resent how nature has been scripted into an Eastenders type 'will she, won't she return to her 'children'(the lions)? scenario. We are dealing with cruel unsanitized nature and we are doing it a disservice by wrapping it up cotton wool. It can only get better!

[Halb]

Wow.
Just had one some killer whales killing a grey whale calf, and some humpback trying to intervene and stop it from happening.

[Morningside]

Interesting, but too much talking and action sequences are too short. Plus a lot of 'dead air' as they wait for linkup or crossover.

As for Hammond, why is he live from a tent? Dont see him wandering live! May as well be in London with a world link.

I will say that its a good use of high def.

[jmorgan]

Kept missing this but 10/10 for effort at least? I noticed the other side had some sort of karaoke show on.

[iphonedyou]

I think it's pretty great, really.

The footage of the Humpback intervention in the Grey / Orca debacle was worth putting the show on for alone, in my view. I can also very much understand the point of using emotion, and following the story of each group of animals. Should hopefully engage the next generation of animal lovers

I don't understand the point, above, about Julia wanting to be home with her first born. Can you point to anything suggesting this (other than the fact she has a first born, obviously.)