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LIFE ON OUR PLANET – Lorne Balfe
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
I don’t know whether it’s my imagination or not, but there seem to be more nature documentary series right now than ever before. When I was a kid, the only nature documentaries I saw were made by the BBC Natural History Unit, they were narrated by Sir David Attenborough, and they came out once every couple of years to great fanfare and acclaim. The first one I remember watching as it aired was The Living Planet in 1984, followed by The Trials of Life six years later in 1990. Now, everyone is getting in on the act; Attenborough and the BBC are still making them, of course, and they are doing them magnificently, but in recent years Netflix and National Geographic and Disney Nature and seemingly dozens of other companies are getting in on the act too, to the point where I wonder whether we might be getting a little over-saturated. What else is there really left to say about polar bears or blue whales? The latest such documentary to be released is Life On Our Planet, which will begin airing on Netflix at the end October 2023. It’s executive-produced by Steven Spielberg, is narrated by Morgan Freeman, and ambitiously attempts to look at the multi-billion year history of the world, from the time of the dinosaurs to the present day. It looks to feature some absolutely astonishing cinematography, and will include a hybrid of both computer-generated imagery and live-action film. Read more…
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