Original air date: 5 April 2019
The series Our Planet is a tribute to our great natural world as have so many other series. This one stands alone in showing how badly it has been treated by us.
The series is from the producers of series like Frozen Planet which was a fight to document the poles without there being too much of a downbeat message.
Attenborough decided to go to Netflix because of their world wide audiences, BBC is mainly limited to the UK in addition to those other broadcasters that buy broadcasting rights and possible DVD releases. Netflix has no such limitations. The producers also have a larger budget and have been able to film sequences that had been unthinkable until now. The obvious drawback is that Attenborough’s material consequently is no longer freely available to his countrymen in the UK. It is debatable how logical it is to get the best way to get such an important message across if the only people to get it are those who pay for it ?? There is probably no need to preach to the already converted. Attenborough fans that are, non Netflix subscribers will undoubtedly feel themselves hard done by. The best way to get such an important message across should surely be to make is as freely available as possible although that obviously raises the question of financing.
Reviews:
https://variety.com/2019/tv/reviews/our-planet-Netflix-David-attenborough-review-1203181075/