Animavore wrote:If like me you forgot it's repeated on Sunday on BBC ONE at 16:10.
If you're American there is a torrent so you can watch it now, as it should be, narrated by the master, before it reaches your shores next Spring narrated by Oprah Winfrey or some shite (although if they get Morgan Freeman that's fine also).

Scot Dutchy wrote:

Animavore wrote:If like me you forgot it's repeated on Sunday on BBC ONE at 16:10.
If you're American there is a torrent so you can watch it now, as it should be, narrated by the master, before it reaches your shores next Spring narrated by Oprah Winfrey or some shite (although if they get Morgan Freeman that's fine also).

I thought David Attenborough sounded a bit tired and weak but the programme was good. I was surprised that it was not in HD.

Animavore wrote:

Scot Dutchy wrote:

Animavore wrote:If like me you forgot it's repeated on Sunday on BBC ONE at 16:10.
If you're American there is a torrent so you can watch it now, as it should be, narrated by the master, before it reaches your shores next Spring narrated by Oprah Winfrey or some shite (although if they get Morgan Freeman that's fine also).

I thought David Attenborough sounded a bit tired and weak but the programme was good. I was surprised that it was not in HD.

It was. It was shown on BBC ONE HD also.

Scot Dutchy wrote:

Animavore wrote:

Scot Dutchy wrote:

I thought David Attenborough sounded a bit tired and weak but the programme was good. I was surprised that it was not in HD.

It was. It was shown on BBC ONE HD also.

We have a BBC HD channel but that did not show it. Do you have a seperate HD for each BBC channel like we have for the Dutch channels?

Animavore wrote:

Scot Dutchy wrote:

Animavore wrote:
It was. It was shown on BBC ONE HD also.

We have a BBC HD channel but that did not show it. Do you have a seperate HD for each BBC channel like we have for the Dutch channels?

Yes. BBC HD is its own channel. Unfortunatly I can't record off BBC1 HD on my Sky Box because it's not counted as the Sky package and is in the 'other channels' section and I can't watch it at the time it is on

Nora_Leonard wrote:

Animavore wrote:

Scot Dutchy wrote:

We have a BBC HD channel but that did not show it. Do you have a seperate HD for each BBC channel like we have for the Dutch channels?

Yes. BBC HD is its own channel. Unfortunatly I can't record off BBC1 HD on my Sky Box because it's not counted as the Sky package and is in the 'other channels' section and I can't watch it at the time it is on

If you have an HD computer monitor you can watch it on HD on iPlayer if you are in the UK...

Scot Dutchy wrote:I thought David Attenborough sounded a bit tired and weak but the programme was good. I was surprised that it was not in HD.

Scot Dutchy wrote:

Nora_Leonard wrote:If you have an HD computer monitor you can watch it on HD on iPlayer if you are in the UK...

There will be very little chance of that happening Nora. I am seldom in the UK. Just see my mum now and again. Thanks anyway.

Nora_Leonard wrote:There's also iPlayer for British viewers... (in case you don't want to wait for the repeat, or if you miss it then as well...)

j.mills wrote:

Nora_Leonard wrote:There's also iPlayer for British viewers... (in case you don't want to wait for the repeat, or if you miss it then as well...)

Or if, indeed, you don't have a telly. Rather a peculiar ol' loophole, that if you don't possess a TV you can cheerfully and legally watch everything online now (so long as you don't do so "live or virtually live as it is broadcast") without paying a bean.

It was for his joyous curiosity about the natural world that British television viewers took David Attenborough to their hearts in the 1970s and kept him there. Whether sitting alongside a gorilla in the most famous sequence in the original Life on Earth series, or peering at the multicoloured chameleons that are his favourite creatures in a BBC special earlier this year, Attenborough's life's work has been to show people what is most beautiful and interesting about our planet.

Frozen Planet, the BBC natural history unit's latest production, is mostly more of the same and British audiences are lapping it up, with 7m viewers tuning in to the penguin-heavy third episode last week. But as Attenborough explained when I interviewed him last month, it isn't possible to spend four years filming in the Arctic and Antarctic without worrying about what is going on. Glaciers are retreating, Arctic ice cover has shrunk by 30% in 30 years and polar bears are finding it harder to survive. So the final programme in the series On Thin Ice (a working title of Meltdown was junked – presumably for sounding too alarmist), due to be aired on 7 December, explains in some detail how we know this and what it might mean, while studiously (some will say wrongly) avoiding any discussion of the causes.

Reports in British newspapers yesterday that Discovery, the US broadcaster that co-produced the series, along with unnamed other foreign broadcasters, will not show this final episode will rightly dismay everyone who accepts that Earth is warming. That audiences invited to sit through five hours of groundbreaking natural history – including the first footage of killer whales tipping seals off ice floes (as Captain Scott said they could 100 years ago), and a hibernating polar bear nursing her cubs while half-asleep – could be sent away none the wiser as to the existential threat facing many of these species, seems ludicrous. (cont.)

chairman bill wrote:Sounds like Teabagger-inspired idiocy to me ... the final episode won't show in the US. because it tsalks about global warming.

Frozen Planet has a duty to inspire debate as well as wonder
The decision not to screen the climate change episode in the US is an injustice to the startling beauty on show during the series
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/16/frozen-planet-climate-change-episode

It was for his joyous curiosity about the natural world that British television viewers took David Attenborough to their hearts in the 1970s and kept him there. Whether sitting alongside a gorilla in the most famous sequence in the original Life on Earth series, or peering at the multicoloured chameleons that are his favourite creatures in a BBC special earlier this year, Attenborough's life's work has been to show people what is most beautiful and interesting about our planet.

Frozen Planet, the BBC natural history unit's latest production, is mostly more of the same and British audiences are lapping it up, with 7m viewers tuning in to the penguin-heavy third episode last week. But as Attenborough explained when I interviewed him last month, it isn't possible to spend four years filming in the Arctic and Antarctic without worrying about what is going on. Glaciers are retreating, Arctic ice cover has shrunk by 30% in 30 years and polar bears are finding it harder to survive. So the final programme in the series On Thin Ice (a working title of Meltdown was junked – presumably for sounding too alarmist), due to be aired on 7 December, explains in some detail how we know this and what it might mean, while studiously (some will say wrongly) avoiding any discussion of the causes.

Reports in British newspapers yesterday that Discovery, the US broadcaster that co-produced the series, along with unnamed other foreign broadcasters, will not show this final episode will rightly dismay everyone who accepts that Earth is warming. That audiences invited to sit through five hours of groundbreaking natural history – including the first footage of killer whales tipping seals off ice floes (as Captain Scott said they could 100 years ago), and a hibernating polar bear nursing her cubs while half-asleep – could be sent away none the wiser as to the existential threat facing many of these species, seems ludicrous. (cont.)