Planet Earth TV Listings
Find out when Planet Earth is on TV today, tonight and this week at the UK TV Listings Guide.
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Planet Earth is scheduled to air at these times (may include spoilers):
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Sat 18From Pole to Pole — Planet Earth
David Attenborough narrates the documentary exploring Earth's natural history and the factors that have affected it. The first edition examines how the sun affects life on Earth through the seasons, following a polar bear preparing its cubs for a long journey to avoid becoming stranded on floating glaciers. Narrated by David Attenborough
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Sat 18Freshwater — Planet Earth
A tour of the mightiest rivers in the world, from the deep waters of Siberia's Lake Baikal, home to the world's only freshwater seal, to the wetlands downstream of Earth's tallest waterfall patrolled by frenzied piranhas. There is also footage of the lightning-quick ambush of wildebeest by crocodiles in Africa and macaque monkeys swimming underwater to catch crabs in Indonesia. Presented by David Attenborough
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Sun 19Caves — Planet Earth
David Attenborough looks at the world's caves, including the Lechuguilla Cave in America, which contains chambers filled with 6m-long crystals. He observes creatures in Texas and Thailand that never see daylight, and inside Deer Cave in Borneo he finds five million bats whose droppings support an entire ecosystem
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Sun 19Mountains — Planet Earth
The nature series looks at animals that live on some of the world's highest mountains. Cameras show gelada baboons screaming to frighten off predators in Ethiopia, demoiselle cranes struggling to migrate over the Himalayas, snow leopards hunting on the peaks of Pakistan and a wild giant panda nursing a baby in a hillside cave. Presented by David Attenborough
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Mon 20Deserts — Planet Earth
David Attenborough focuses on animals living in deserts. Cameras explore the dry Atacama of Chile, where guanacos survive by licking dew off cacti, and capture the rare sight of wild camels eating snow to stay hydrated on Mongolia's Gobi plains. In the rocky Namibian desert, elephants desperately search for food and lions wander the wilderness hunting oryx
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Mon 20Ice Worlds — Planet Earth
Camera crews follow the activities of wildlife in the Arctic and Antarctic, including an emperor penguin colony's nine-month migration across sea ice to its breeding ground. The team also takes aerial and underwater shots to capture humpback whales feeding and tracks a male polar bear as it swims 100km to find new ice from which to hunt seals
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Tue 21Great Plains — Planet Earth
The wildlife on the great plains of Africa, Asia, North America and the Arctic, which cover a quarter of the land on Earth. The distinctive Tibetan fox is captured on film for the first time, while a herd of caribou migrates 2,000 miles across the tundra in search of grass. Night vision equipment tracks a pride of 30 lions hunting elephants in the tropical African savannah near one of the region's few remaining waterholes. Presented by David Attenborough
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Tue 21Seasonal Forests — Planet Earth
An insight into woodlands around the world, from the stunted conifers cloaked in snow and ice in the Arctic forests, to the broadleaf woods in North America and Europe. Also featured are the 100m-high giant redwoods of California, as well as Madagascar's unusual upside-down trees, which store water in their swollen trunks and harbour strange wildlife. Presented by David Attenborough
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Wed 22Jungles — Planet Earth
David Attenborough observes some of the varied species to be found in tropical rainforests, from the amusing courtship rituals of the birds of paradise and a chimpanzee group defending its territory to a flying-frog mating orgy and the sinister parasitic fungi cordyceps, which eat their victims alive
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Wed 22Shallow Seas — Planet Earth
Following the epic journey of a humpback whale and its calf as they travel from a tropical paradise to the species' great feeding ground in the icy polar seas. David Attenborough also observes footage of colonies of seabirds in the Arabian desert and surfing dolphins in Australia that swim onto the beach to catch their fish
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Thu 23Ocean Deep — Planet Earth
An exploration of the survival techniques used by creatures inhabiting the deep oceans of the world, where adaptation is paramount for those dwelling on the surface as well as below. Pods of dolphins are filmed charging in search of prey, surprising methods for conserving energy are revealed as deep-sea octopuses 'fly' with wings, and vampire squid use bioluminescence to create a colourful display
More details for Planet Earth, Thu 23, 6:00 pm
