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PBS Celebrates Attenborough Centenary with 'Life on Earth' & 'Green Planet II'
Sir David Attenborough will be 100 years old in less than two months. Here's how the BBC and PBS are celebrating.
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Sir David Attenborough will be 100 years old in less than two months. Here's how the BBC and PBS are celebrating.
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When I was a child growing up, my parents didn't have a TV. Since leaving home, I've never not had screens of some sort surrounding me, and in my 20s, the TV was always on as I fell asleep. My favorite thing to put on? The
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The delaying of parenthood until one is in one's 30s (or 40s) is a trend that has been decried since it began in the latter half of the 20th century. However, it's usually focused on the age of women -- men can go around becoming first-time
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No one is more associated with nature documentaries than Sir David Attenborough, the British naturalist who happened to be in the right place at the right time as the BBC moved into television. Attenborough's on-screen career has now reached eight decades, from the first zoo-based series about smaller
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David Attenborough’s masterly BBC series Planet Earth: Asia, which concluded its run on BBC America and AMC+ in early March 2025, ends tentatively optimistic for the future. After Attenborough's guidance through remote, seemingly inhospitable parts of the world, where rare species adapt to harsh environments, it turns
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David Attenborough’s new series, Planet Earth: Asia (simply titled Asia in the U.K.), is a thrilling, gorgeous paean to the earth’s largest continent. Four years in the making, Asia explores the continent in depth for the first time, including its thousands of miles of coastline, three oceans,
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Since the streaming wars took off, cable channels have been in dire straits. Basic cable still has a floor, but all those higher tertiary channels are zombie channels, playing to an audience share of 0.0. BBC America (very much not basic cable) was already in trouble before that reality
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Sir David Attenborough is the most famous naturalist in the world, but before 1979, he was just another upper-class Brit who discovered the power of television by being in the right place at the right time. That final year of the 1970s marked the release of Attenborough's seminal
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Sir David Attenborough's name is virtually synonymous with natural history and wildlife programming. The award-winning naturalist has taken us everywhere, exploring the full breadth of our world with the Planet Earth series and delving even further into the specifics of everything from the deep sea (Blue Planet) and
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Few are left of those who pioneered television as we know it today, and those who are still with us will not be around for much longer. However, it speaks to the original dream for the medium as a way to provide educational and heartwarming television that two of the
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It's been a rough year. Perhaps not as rough as some I've lived through (2004 and 2014 would like a word), but still deeply difficult. Those previous times when I would wake up at 1 am with no hope of more, I'd put on
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The final two months of the year are upon us, and with them, the conclusion of PBS' Fall lineup of Sunday shows. While both Moonflower Murders and Van der Valk Season 4 ended in October, Ridley Season 2 still had another episode to go, taking it into the top