Over 100,000 HQ DivX TV Movies All DVD Quality 99. Active Links The Fastest Streams Updated Daily No Cams And we love you too. Torrentz will always love you. Farewell. 20032016 Torrentz. Planet Earth TV series Wikipedia. Planet Earth is a landmark 2. British television series produced by the BBC Natural History Unit. Five years in the making, it was the most expensive nature documentary series ever commissioned by the BBC and also the first to be filmed in high definition. Planet Earth premiered on 5 March 2. United Kingdom on BBC One, and by June 2. The original version was narrated by David Attenborough, whilst some international versions used alternative narrators. Watch Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad Online. The series has eleven episodes, each of which features a global overview of a different biome or habitat on Earth. At the end of each fifty minute episode, a ten minute featurette takes a behind the scenes look at the challenges of filming the series. Ten years later, the BBC announced a six part sequel had been commissioned, titled Planet Earth II, the first television series produced by the BBC in Ultra high definition 4. K. David Attenborough returned as narrator and presenter. BackgroundeditIn 2. BBC broadcast The Blue Planet, a landmark series on the natural history of the worlds oceans. It received critical acclaim, high viewing figures, audience appreciation ratings, and many awards. It also became a hugely profitable global brand, eventually being sold to 1. Feedback showed that audiences particularly liked the epic scale, the scenes of new and unusual species and the cinematic quality of the series. Programme commissioners were keen for a follow up, so Alastair Fothergill decided that the Natural History Unit should repeat the formula with a series looking at the whole planet. The idea for Planet Earth was born, and the series was commissioned by Lorraine Heggessey, then Controller of BBC One, in January 2. A feature film version of Planet Earth was commissioned alongside the television series, repeating the successful model established with The Blue Planet and its companion film, Deep Blue. Earth was released around the world from 2. There was also another accompanying television series, Planet Earth The Future, which looked at the environmental problems facing some of the species and habitats featured in the main series in more detail. BroadcasteditPlanet Earth premiered on BBC One on 5 March 2. United Kingdom. On the same day or in the subsequent weeks or months, the series also began airing in several other countries. International broadcasters carrying Planet Earth include Australia on ABC and GEM, Canada on CBC and CTV, New Zealand on Prime, the U. S. on Discovery Channel and Velocity and Science and Animal Planet and Destination America and BBC America. Hd Quality The Little Polar Bear Watch ' title='Hd Quality The Little Polar Bear Watch ' />British televisioneditThe episodes are each an hour in length, comprising the main programme and a 1. Planet Earth Diaries, which details the filming of a particular event. In the UK, Planet Earth was split into two parts, broadcast in spring and autumn 2. The first five episodes premiered on BBC One at 9 0. Sundays, beginning on 5 March 2. The programmes were repeated the following Saturday in an early evening slot on BBC Two. Along with its 2. Bleak House, the BBC selected Planet Earth for its trial of high definition broadcasts. The opening episode was its first ever scheduled programme in the format, shown 2. May 2. 00. 6 on the BBC HD channel. The first episode in the autumn series, Great Plains, received its first public showing at the Edinburgh International Television Festival on 2. August 2. 00. 6. It was shown on a giant screen in Conference Square. The remaining episodes were broadcast from 5 November 2. BBC One slot, following a further repeat run of the spring programmes on BBC Four. The autumn episodes were broadcast simultaneously on BBC HD and were repeated on BBC Four the following week. Besides being BBC Ones featured One to Watch programme of the day, Planet Earth was heavily trailed on the BBCs television and radio channels both before and during its run. The music that was featured in the BBC trailers for the series is the track Hopppolla from the album Takk. Icelandicpost rock band Sigur Rs. Following the advertisements, interest was so widespread that the single was re released. In the United States, the series was promoted using The Time Has Come from trailer music company Epic Score,8 composed by Gabriel Shadid and Tobias Marberger. The Australian trailers initially used Jupiter The Bringer of Jollity from Gustav Holsts orchestral suite The Planets, but later reverted to Hopppolla. InternationaleditThe BBC pre sold the series to several overseas broadcasters,1. Discovery Channel for the United States, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, China Central Television, WDR for Germany, Discovery Channel for India, Prime Television for New Zealand, and C1. R for Russian broadcasts. The series was eventually sold to 1. On 2. 5 March 2. 00. American television on the Discovery network, premiering on the Discovery Channel and Discovery HD Theater. There were a number of revisions to the original British programme. Actress and conservationist Sigourney Weaver was brought in to replace David Attenborough as narrator, as it was thought her familiarity to American audiences would attract more viewers. The Discovery programmes also used a slightly different script to the British original. The series was broadcast on Sundays in one 3 hour block followed by four 2 hour blocks. The Planet Earth Diaries segments were not shown immediately after each episode, but collectively in Planet Earth The Filmmakers Story, a two hour special which was broadcast after the series had finished its initial network run. Edited versions were later broadcast on The Science Channel, Animal Planet, and Planet Green. In Canada, the series did not air on the Canadian Discovery Channel, as it is owned by CTV and the Canadian rights were exclusively sold to the CBC. EpisodeseditA hundred years ago, there were one and a half billion people on Earth. Now, over six billion crowd our fragile planet. But even so, there are still places barely touched by humanity. This series will take you to the last wildernesses and show you the planet and its wildlife as you have never seen them before. David Attenboroughs opening narrationOur planet is still full of wonders. As we explore them, so we gain not only understanding, but power. Its not just the future of the whale that today lies in our hands its the survival of the natural world in all parts of the living planet. We can now destroy or we can cherish. The choice is ours. David Attenborough, in closing. Planet Earth The FutureeditThe latter episodes were supplemented by Planet Earth The Future, a series of three 6. The programmes are narrated by Simon Poland and the series producer was Fergus Beeley. The series began transmission on BBC Four after the ninth episode, Shallow Seas. Feature filmeditAlongside the commissioning of the television series, BBC Worldwide and Green. Light Media secured financing for a US1. Planet Earth. 2. 6 This followed the earlier success of Deep Blue, the BBCs 2. The Blue Planet. 2. The film was co directed by Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield and produced by Alix Tidmarsh and Sophokles Tasioulis. Only 3. 0 of the footage shown in Earth is new, with the remainder being reworked from the television series to suit the narrative of the film. David Attenborough was replaced as narrator by high profile actors Patrick Stewart for the UK market and James Earl Jones for the United States. Earth had its worldwide premiere in September 2. San Sebastin International Film Festival in San Sebastin, Spain, in Basque Country. Lionsgate released the film in several international markets over the following year. In the United States, it became the first film to be released by Disneynature, the Walt Disney Companys new nature documentary arm. When released on Earth Day 2. It has grossed more than 1.