Planet Earth II

[pishhead]

Truly astounding television of the highest order. I can't even imagine the effort that has to go into even a minutes viewing time.
Fascinating stuff. The snakes were like something out of the scariest movie I've ever seen.

 

[Goldstone1976]

Can we please have more quality stuff like this at the expense of Britains got talent, Strictly come dancing, cake baking and all the other poop that is on?

The cost of producing it is about 50x (*) per minute than that of bake-off. 4 years to make; 82,000 DVD's worth of recorded footage, 2000 days in the field, 120 separate filming locations. Compare that to a dozen weekends filming in a tent in an English country hotel's garden. If the licence fee payer were prepared to stump up 50x the current fee, I'm sure the Beeb would love to produce nothing but high cost programming.

On topic: those snakes can just do one.

* quick back of the fag packet mental arithmetic estimate.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Truly astounding television of the highest order. I can't even imagine the effort that has to go into even a minutes viewing time.

The 'Diaries' segment at the end of each programme shows just some of the extreme lengths the production crew have to go to in order to capture these stunning scenes. As you say, truly astounding.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Truly astounding television of the highest order. I can't even imagine the effort that has to go into even a minutes viewing time.
Fascinating stuff. The snakes were like something out of the scariest movie I've ever seen.

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[Marshy]

Watched it last night, top stuff

 

[Langley]

Can we please have more quality stuff like this at the expense of Britains got talent, Strictly come dancing, cake baking and all the other poop that is on?

Come on Grubby, can you tell me any other way to keep the wife quiet for an hour or more. Sheer bliss for me, as I can catch up on NSC without interruption.

 

[grubbyhands]

Come on Grubby, can you tell me any other way to keep the wife quiet for an hour or more. Sheer bliss for me, as I can catch up on NSC without interruption.

Good point and well made but my sentiments remain. Worth the licence fee alone in my opinion. The other stuff can "do one" as the youngsters say.

 

[BigGully]

Good point and well made but my sentiments remain. Worth the licence fee alone in my opinion. The other stuff can "do one" as the youngsters say.

I loved it, but I am guessing with wildlife programmes you soon run out of truly exceptional TV, no matter how wonderous the planet might be most of animals lives as our own are pretty mundane, there are not many gangs of snakes, dragons and diehard penguins about, you are soon back to countryfile ..................

 

[Easy 10]

I had NO idea a sloth could SWIM

 

[AmexRuislip]

The cost of producing it is about 50x (*) per minute than that of bake-off. 4 years to make; 82,000 DVD's worth of recorded footage, 2000 days in the field, 120 separate filming locations. Compare that to a dozen weekends filming in a tent in an English country hotel's garden. If the licence fee payer were prepared to stump up 50x the current fee, I'm sure the Beeb would love to produce nothing but high cost programming.

On topic: those snakes can just do one.

* quick back of the fag packet mental arithmetic estimate.

Those bloody snakes, amazing, but never trust anything that moves that fast and doesn't have legs.

This
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...ne-live-reptile-intrudes-on-flight-in-mexico/

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Good point and well made but my sentiments remain. Worth the licence fee alone in my opinion. The other stuff can "do one" as the youngsters say.

I don't know about the other programmes, but when I vote for the dancers on Strictly, it costs money, so therefore it's topping up the licence fee and helping to pay for the other stuff. I also vote online which is free.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I had NO idea a sloth could SWIM

Not exactly SWIMMING tho is it? More of a SLOTHY-PADDLE really

 

[Easy 10]

I don't know about the other programmes, but when I vote for the dancers on Strictly, it costs money, so therefore it's topping up the licence fee and helping to pay for the other stuff. I also vote online which is free.

I never understand the motivation to vote on those (or any) shows, I genuinely don't.

About the only one of that ilk that I watch is I'm a Celeb, but never once have I felt even the slightest inclination to go to the bother of voting. I don't geddit.

 

[The Albion Roar]

The cost of producing it is about 50x (*) per minute than that of bake-off. 4 years to make; 82,000 DVD's worth of recorded footage, 2000 days in the field, 120 separate filming locations. Compare that to a dozen weekends filming in a tent in an English country hotel's garden. If the licence fee payer were prepared to stump up 50x the current fee, I'm sure the Beeb would love to produce nothing but high cost programming.

On topic: those snakes can just do one.

* quick back of the fag packet mental arithmetic estimate.

I'm sure the BBC would sell 82,000x more DVDs of snakes chasing down an running iguana steak than Paul Hollywood's preening.

 

[Easy 10]

Not exactly SWIMMING tho is it? More of a SLOTHY-PADDLE really

Paddle ? That stream was pretty DEEP. I thought he did alright. Fair play to the fella, swimming across a current on the offchance of climbing up a tree and getting his end away. Shame he only found that single mum, I was quite up for watching a bit of SLOTHSEX.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Blu-ray of Planet Earth II is certainly going to be very high up on many people's Santa Wish List, and rightly so

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Paddle ? That stream was pretty DEEP. I thought he did alright. Fair play to the fella, swimming across a current on the offchance of climbing up a tree and getting his end away. Shame he only found that single mum, I was quite up for watching a bit of SLOTHSEX.

I found the display of Komodo Dragon foreplay quite disconcerting enough, thank you very much.

I can only reiterate the very wise words of The Bloodhound Gang on this topic:

'Me and you baby ain't nothing but mammals
So let's do it like they do on The Discovery Channel'

 

[emphyrian]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfBNG5KD1oU

ozzyman reviews the snakes verses baby iguana.

 

[portslade seagull]

I'm sure the BBC would sell 82,000x more DVDs of snakes chasing down an running iguana steak than Paul Hollywood's preening.

Those snakes were seriously creepy

 

[The Albion Roar]

Those snakes were seriously creepy

Mary Berry in reptile form.