Planet Earth
Ice Worlds
TV Flash files “Ice Worlds” as a desk essential hour — Planet Earth (2006) on BBC/Discovery, season 1, episode 6, aired 2006-11-05, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E06: listed hour 6 of 11 in the Planet Earth guide, hour 6 of 11 in season 1. It aired 2006-11-05 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Deserts” (S01E05). Next is “Great Plains” (S01E07).
Essential hour: “Ice Worlds”. Ice Worlds is the frozen-spectacle chapter people still cite: natural-history as event television, HD turning weather into architecture.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Although the frozen worlds of the Arctic and Antarctic experience the greatest seasonal extremes, it is the advance and retreat of the ice that is the real challenge to life. As the sea freezes, Antarctica doubles in size and all animals except for the emperor penguin flee. In the Arctic, the polar bear's ice world literally melts beneath its feet, forcing it to swim vast distances and take on one of the deadliest adversaries on the planet.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Ice Worlds sit in the Planet Earth guide?
S01E06 is listed hour 6 of 11 — hour 6 of 11 in season 1, season 1 episode 6.
When did Planet Earth S01E06 air?
Ice Worlds aired 2006-11-05 and is listed at 60 minutes.
BBC or Discovery version?
BBC Natural History Unit masterpiece; U.S. version aired on Discovery. Attenborough whispering over HD biomes is the event.
In the series
Why this series still plays
David Attenborough whispers over high-definition footage that made Earth look extra-terrestrial in 2006. Planet Earth is natural-history spectacle as appointment awe — biomes as set pieces, how-did-they-film-that making-of lore, the production ceiling every later nature series still jumps for.
The group chat for Planet Earth is just people typing how did they film that until the making-of diaries become the second show, which they kind of are. Alastair Fothergill and the BBC Natural History Unit, David Attenborough whispering, U.S. version on Discovery in 2006: a landmark wildlife series spanning the planet's biomes in then-revolutionary high definition. Earth looking extra-terrestrial. Biomes as set pieces. Awe as a weekly appointment. Eleven episodes, one season, sequels including Planet Earth II.…
Filed against
- David Attenborough as Narrator
David Attenborough whispers Planet Earth into appointment awe — high-definition footage that made the globe look extra-terrestrial in 2006, biomes as set pieces, how-did-they-film-that lore. Natural-history spectacle as a 2000s production…