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Lately, there’s been a lot about “gerontocracy” and whether or not older people can cognitively handle high-level jobs. For those who need an example showing that age ain’t nothing but a number and you’re only as old as you let yourself feel, I give you Sir David
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Considering that Sir David Attenborough's filmography extends back 72 years, starting in 1952, and 2024 marks his 70th year presenting since his first TV appearance in 1954's Zoo Quest on the BBC, the decision to look back on a series he made a mere 20 years
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David Attenborough was already an institution unto himself when he was originally knighted in 1985 after his groundbreaking documentary series Life series became a breakout hit on the BBC and PBS in the early 1980s. He then redoubled that place in history with his second groundbreaking series, Planet Earth, not
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The Planet Earth series has been Sir David Attenborough's crowning achievement of the 21st century, much like Life on Earth was his crowning achievement of the 20th. The BBC naturalist, who has been presenting the wonders of the planet to audiences huddled at home in their living rooms
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that no one makes nature documentaries like the British. Groundbreaking series like Life, Frozen Planet, and Blue Planet have offered unprecedented and largely unparalleled views of Earth and its ecosystems, dazzling — and educating — viewers along the way. But nothing comes close to the Planet
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May has arrived, and with it, a major announcement. The Walter's Choice deluge of the last six months is finally ending. The massive wave of titles coming every Thursday since the end of November was part of PBS Passport catching up to its Masterpiece Channel cousin over on
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Earth Day originated in the 1960s as those who jumped on the climate change bandwagon tried to draw attention to how humans affected the environment. In 1969, Wisconsin environmental activist Sen. Gaylord Nelson came up with the idea to hold a nationwide ecological teach-in on April 22, 1970, known as
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David Attenborough's Frozen Planet II only just finished airing on BBC America in March, but there's already another Attenborough series on the way for April and Earth Day 2023. His latest special, Wild Isles, which aired on BBC One in February 2023 (though not without some
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At 96 years old, U.K. national treasure David Attenborough has been making documentary specials about the natural world for 70+ years. Though one of his few British contemporaries still remaining, Queen Elizabeth finally passed in 2022 (she was all of a few weeks older), he's still going.
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Two of the U.K.'s greatest treasures were born within weeks of each other in 1926. On April 12, Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor was born and became England's longest-serving monarch. Less than a month later, on May 8, David Frederick Attenborough was born. Attenborough is the