TV GUIDE: The Wednesday Playlist: Attenborough's Natural Life History, Horror Finale
Jan 23, 2013
by Matt Roush
The world is Sir David Attenborough's playground, which he has revealed on camera in all of its natural wonder with irrepressible enthusiasm for the last 60 years, forging a career that encompasses what he calls "the golden age of natural history filmmaking." His breakthrough TV programs include 1979's epic Life on Earth, which launched a series of "Life" specials, and such recent phenoms as Planet Earth and Frozen Planet (although Discovery Channel replaced his narration with American actors for U.S. broadcast).
PBS' Nature celebrates his astonishing milestones over the next three Wednesdays with a miniseries, Attenborough's Life Stories (check tvguide.com listings), which functions as a visual history of how this sort of nature programming has evolved with the help of technological breakthroughs. "The shots just got better and better," Attenborough marvels in the wonderfully anecdotal first chapter, "Life on Camera," which reaches back to the black-and-white '50s, before innovations in video cameras and infrared lighting allowed filmmakers to fully capture life underwater or animal behavior in the dark. You'll hang on every word, while relishing some of the most captivating sequences of wildlife ever captured...
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE PREVIEW FOR NATURE'S 'LIFE ON CAMERA'
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