Planet Earth
Jungles
TV Flash files “Jungles” as a desk essential hour — Planet Earth (2006) on BBC/Discovery, season 1, episode 8, aired 2006-11-19, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E08: listed hour 8 of 11 in the Planet Earth guide, hour 8 of 11 in season 1. It aired 2006-11-19 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Great Plains” (S01E07). Next is “Shallow Seas” (S01E09).
Essential hour: “Jungles”. Jungles is the canopy chapter — Planet Earth using a biome as a set, the later nature-series arms race already implied in the greenery.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
David Attenborough's natural history series. Tropical rainforests cover just three per cent of our planet, yet are home to a staggering 50 per cent of the world's species. They are the richest environments on earth but also the most competitive. Travelling through this enchanted world, we uncover the amazing strategies its inhabitants adopt in order to survive. Look out for the flying frog mating orgy and the sinister bodysnatching cordyceps fungi that eat their victims alive.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Jungles sit in the Planet Earth guide?
S01E08 is listed hour 8 of 11 — hour 8 of 11 in season 1, season 1 episode 8.
When did Planet Earth S01E08 air?
Jungles aired 2006-11-19 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…