I don't know how interesting this is to everyone, but I used to love watching nature documentaries when I was a kid...and as I got older I noticed fewer documentaries on the Discovery Channel. Aside from "March of the Penguins" or what they show at Exploris I don't see much. But yeh they are starting an 11 part mini-series of documentaries called Planet Earth on the discovery channel and it look cool. Here is a link to the commercial and website.

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/planet-earth/planet-earth.html

3/24/2007 9:14:49 PM

it should be pretty good

3/24/2007 9:40:38 PM

the commercials look fucking awesome

3/24/2007 11:29:52 PM

too bad all the commericials i've seen are in SD. Should be really good in HD

3/24/2007 11:32:28 PM

It's got beautiful picture quality, and a lot of awesome shots, but it's not really a documentary.

I might be thinking of another show, but it seems they just have basically a stationary camera overlooking some scene, they're not really focusing or exploring one particular thing.

3/25/2007 12:23:03 AM

well since it comes on for the first time tomorrow night, i think its hard to say if its really a documentary or not

3/25/2007 12:34:33 AM

What was I watching then? IT was some Earth show on Discovery HD that had a bunch of nature in it. It was almost like a screensaver.

3/25/2007 12:38:02 AM

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"I might be thinking of another show, but it seems they just have basically a stationary camera overlooking some scene, they're not really focusing or exploring one particular thing."

you are thinking of "Sunrise Earth"

Cool shit to have on while getting ready for work in the morning.

very serene.

3/25/2007 1:09:08 AM

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"show on Discovery HD that had a bunch of nature in it. "

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NO WAI!!!!!

3/25/2007 1:34:13 AM

It is 11 miniseries. Each highlighting different parts of our natural world.

POLE TO POLE
Airs Sunday, March 25, at 8 p.m. ET/PT
PLANET EARTH's premiere episode, "Pole to Pole," ties the series together with a fresh understanding of how life in every nook and cranny of the globe is connected — from the highest mountains and darkest caves; shallowest water and deepest oceans; ice-covered lands and great plains; untamed jungles and giant forests; to freshwater and the harshest deserts. The sunward tilt of Earth's orbit dictates all our lives, creating the seasons that trigger one of the greatest spectacles in the world — the mass migration of animals. It's a unique view of the majesty of our planet and the amazing creatures that live here.
mountains
MOUNTAINS
Airs Sunday, March 25, at 9 p.m. ET/PT
This episode tours the mightiest of mountain ranges and introduces a few of its extreme animal mountaineers — the mountain lion, snow leopard and puma, all rarely filmed creatures. CGI time-lapse footage brings the mysterious geological history of mountains to life, while flying alongside bar-headed geese provides a spectacular view of the Himalayas.
Learn more about this habitat.
deep ocean
DEEP OCEAN
Airs Sunday, March 25, at 10 p.m. ET/PT
The ocean is by far the largest habitat on our planet and it remains almost entirely unexplored. This episode scans the ocean's vast surface and trolls its depths, revealing daytime hunters and night feeders, from dolphins to manta rays, and life among hot vents and underwater massifs, following the energy source between oceanic white tips, myctopids, tuna, whale sharks and petrels.
Learn more about this habitat.
deserts
DESERTS
Airs Sunday, April 1, at 8 p.m. ET/PT
Deserts are united by their lack of rain, yet they are the most varied of our planet's ecosystems. Go where freshwater is really precious and meet animals that have learned to survive with small amounts of it, such as the wild Bactrian camel of Mongolia's Gobi Desert that eats snow instead of drinking water or Chile's guanacos that lick dew from cactus spines. Experience spectacular aerial and time-lapse footage, featuring an explosion of life and shifting sand dunes.
Learn more about this habitat.
ice worlds
ICE WORLDS
Airs Sunday, April 1, at 9 p.m. ET/PT
This episode guides viewers on a journey to the polar extremes of our planet. Freshwater is frozen and out of reach, and coupled with numbing temperatures, this makes life hard in frozen climes from the top to the bottom of the world. CGI time-lapse and elapsed-time filming techniques show Arctic ice coming and going over the centuries, and emperor penguins settling in to breed in Antarctica.
Learn more about this habitat.
shallow seas
SHALLOW SEAS
Airs Sunday, April 8, at 8 p.m. ET/PT
Follow a humpback whale mother and her calf on their epic journey to the most prolific feeding grounds that fringe the coasts. The shallow seas that lie above the continental shelf are the richest in the ocean. It is here that you find the coral reefs and, in colder waters, the fishing grounds. Massive shoals of fish act like magnets for predators. Spectacular storm footage, above and below the water, reveals extraordinary events in this tropical paradise.
Learn more about this habitat.
great plains
GREAT PLAINS
Airs Sunday, April 8, at 9 p.m. ET/PT
A quarter of the earth's surface is covered with grass, and the world's plains are home to massive herds of animals. This episode traverses the grasslands of Mongolia and the flooding plains of Papua New Guinea, and finds great gatherings of creatures, such as East Africa's wildebeest and clusters of rare grazers like Mongolian gazelles.
Learn more about this habitat.
jungles
JUNGLES
Airs Sunday, April 15, at 8 p.m. ET/PT
Beautiful floating aerial shots introduce the world's most spectacular forest vistas and high-definition cameras enable unprecedented views of the species that live on the dark jungle floor, in this episode. Enter a world of mood and menace, and witness intense competition on a macro and micro scale as jaguars track prey and fungi infiltrate insect hosts.
Learn more about this habitat.
fresh water
FRESHWATER
Airs Sunday, April 15, at 9 p.m. ET/PT
Just 3 percent of the planet's water is fresh and it is our most precious resource. Rivers and lakes have shaped the earth, carving out the world's most impressive gorges, valleys and waterfalls. Unique behavior takes place in the presence of this life force, such as dueling otters and crocodiles and diving macaques.
Learn more about this habitat.
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FORESTS
Airs Sunday, April 22, at 8 p.m. ET/PT
This episode tells the story of seasonal forests and plant survival. Forests cover vast expanses from Siberia to Tasmania and still remain largely unexplored. Infrared and low-light cameras peek into the lives of elusive woodland inhabitants, such as snub-nosed monkeys, Amur leopards and Siberian tigers.
Learn more about this habitat.
caves
CAVES
Airs Sunday, April 22, at 9 p.m. ET/PT
Caves are Earth's final frontier, and this episode will go where few have been before. Caves are one of the only habitats not directly driven by sunlight, but this doesn't mean there's no wildlife living in their confines. Descend into darkness to witness the unseen behaviors of bizarre creatures like cave angel fish that attach themselves to walls and swiftlets that build nests from saliva.
Learn more about this habitat.

3/25/2007 3:47:16 AM

It looks awesome.

3/25/2007 4:22:46 AM

pretty cool. Saw it tonight

3/25/2007 9:54:40 PM

just watched the first one so far (poll to poll - about the seasons). good stuff. I didn't realize the narrator was Seqorny Weaver until the credits. It annoyed me that she specifically mentioned "new camera technology" or "helicoptor stabilizers" or whatever about 4 times. Hopefully they won't do that in the other ones. The 10 minute demo about all the new cameras at the end was good enough, but I don't need to be reminded while I'm watching what kind of camera technolgy they're using.

3/25/2007 10:02:37 PM

all i know is that shark was off the chains

3/25/2007 10:05:03 PM

you guys can d/l all the eps online

3/25/2007 10:21:51 PM

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"well since it comes on for the first time tomorrow night, i think its hard to say if its really a documentary or not"

they showed the first episode a few months ago on discovery HD

and i too am in love with this shit

3/25/2007 11:06:12 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpDc4Knoqw

Watching the first one now, it's pretty good so far.

3/25/2007 11:14:12 PM

youtube?
gotta watch this stuff in HD to get the full effect

3/25/2007 11:16:13 PM

yeah, i missed this and im sad
gotta catch it on the replay

sounds and looks awesome
i love Discovery and all their other channels

3/26/2007 9:24:21 AM

fuck! after all the talking i did about that show, you would have thought i'd remember to watch it. lol, oh well. when does it rerun?

[Edited on March 26, 2007 at 12:50 PM. Reason : durrr]

3/26/2007 12:50:11 PM

probably a lot.
I thought they were only going to show 1 hour last night, but they ended up showing the first 3 hours, twice each - 6 hours straight. So i'm sure they'll be milking each of them as much as possible

3/26/2007 3:21:38 PM

I got this off the internet a month ago.

3/26/2007 3:41:17 PM

who cares

the point of the show is not the nature scenery - you can get that ANYWHERE - the point is the HD quality shots

3/26/2007 3:47:43 PM

I wish the fuckers at TWC would bring me my damn HD DVR box

I have a 60" 1080i just waiting for it

3/26/2007 3:49:53 PM

this show is awesome

3/26/2007 5:17:31 PM

Any ideas on reruns yet?

3/26/2007 5:40:57 PM

From the commercials it seems like it would be good in IMAX, I've seen some other earth/nature films there that were stunning.

3/26/2007 5:43:42 PM

does this come on every monday night??

3/26/2007 5:52:10 PM

the first 3 episodes are being re-aired April 1 from 11AM to 2PM...

the next 2 episodes come on that night from 8-10PM

3/26/2007 6:14:39 PM

i watched part of one of them on DiscHD today...really nice

3/26/2007 8:06:08 PM

the birds of paradise with the blue smiley face bird was nuts

3/26/2007 8:54:39 PM

^yeah, that was fucking awesome

3/26/2007 9:26:21 PM

I DVR'd them and just watched the first 3

I liked the black bird doing his little dance, only to be denied. I started laughing at that.

I'm glad their not politicizing it too much.... with the 'Global Warming has all but destroyed their habitat' etc. They've alluded to it, but I was afraid they'd really harp on it

3/26/2007 9:38:45 PM

i really dont think of global warming as a political argument

maybe thats just me though

3/26/2007 10:11:13 PM

well it's not necessarily political, but we've all heard it

just let us enjoy the photography since that's the point of the series

3/26/2007 10:54:19 PM

its just that goddamn the whole global warming thing gets mentioned EVERY 3 MINUTES in most nature shows

after a while it almost becomes a reflex - oh look what's that, beautiful scenery? pretty soon the voice-over starts droning about how its all being destroyed. i don't give a flying shit what your politics are, there's no issue that merits the overwhelming imbalance in coverage this issue gets in nature shows.

and to all you fuckers who don't watch nature shows, but did watch inconvenient truth, ZIP IT - you don't know shit about nature shows, they really do talk about global warming too much


[Edited on March 26, 2007 at 10:58 PM. Reason : s]

3/26/2007 10:57:48 PM

im glad they're not making it all about global warming too, i was just saying that i dont see it as a political argument

[Edited on March 26, 2007 at 11:03 PM. Reason : THE UNIVERSE!]

3/26/2007 11:02:58 PM

that one second clip of the great white jumping out of the water, put on a high speed camera, extending the shot for 47 seconds was amazing.

then the film industry side of me thought about it...if they took that 47 second shot and put it on the stock footage market, with it being HD too, i bet it would go for maybe a few million dollars.

ive dvr'd all the episodes so far...good stuff.

the birds of paradise sequence was really cool...weirdest fucking birds ever.

3/27/2007 2:57:25 AM

MOUNTAINS was fucking stunning.

3/27/2007 8:16:48 AM

I need to set my DVR to record this.

3/27/2007 9:07:45 AM

^^x2. Looking forward to Deep Oceans. The snow-leopard hunt was pretty cool, and the eagles hunting the cranes in mid-air was badass.

3/27/2007 9:49:55 AM

there has only been 3 of them on so far right on discoveryHD? i only found 3 to dvr...

3/27/2007 9:57:30 AM

Yeh so I watched it and loved it. Wish I had HD. Seems like they showed the first three episodes last sunday like mentioned earlier (from 8pm and ending at 11pm). Then they had some other shows that lasted til midnight then they reran the shows from 12am to 3am. I'm sure they will rerun them on Saturday's or smthg. Or maybe once they have shown all of them they will show them again. My favorites were those ethiopian babboons and the paradise birds (especially that psycho blue one) and that leopard/goat chase down the fucking mountain. I also liked that slow-motion great white/seal chase. I can't wait to see the Nile Crocodiles in the Great Plains episode on April 8th.

3/27/2007 5:08:59 PM

watching it now - great so far

3/27/2007 5:10:21 PM

GOD DAMN YOU TWC

3/27/2007 5:13:05 PM

finally got to catch the first 3 in a row today

amazing show. wish i had an HDTV though

i'll probably buy the dvds eventually

4/1/2007 5:42:21 PM

bumping up for today's 2 episodes

[Edited on April 1, 2007 at 7:59 PM. Reason : 2]

4/1/2007 7:51:12 PM

yo 9pm?

channel 30 basic?

4/1/2007 8:18:09 PM

correct

4/1/2007 8:32:06 PM

dvr'd em on my friends' hd tv. watched a few today. stunning indeed. my new favorite show.

the jumping great white and the paradise birds ftw.

oh and btw it sucks in standard definition compared to hd.

4/1/2007 9:15:19 PM