The Blue Planet

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Television Craft - 2002". British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) . Retrieved 14 February 2021. Weekly Top 30 Programmes". BARB. (data available for The Blue Planet broadcast weeks by searching archive)

The series was announced by the BBC in 2013 with the working title Oceans, but the title was later changed to Blue Planet II as was revealed on 19 February 2017, making it a follow-up to the 2001 series The Blue Planet. [3] [4] Filming took place over a course of more than four years; involving 125 expeditions across 39 countries and produced more than 6,000 hours of underwater dive footage from over an estimated 4,000 dives. [5] Broadcast [ edit ] British television [ edit ] NTAs: David Attenborough on Blue Planet II's Impact". BBC News. Archived from the original on 24 January 2018 . Retrieved 23 January 2018. BBC commissions Blue Planet follow up". BBC News. 23 September 2013. Archived from the original on 12 August 2016 . Retrieved 23 September 2013. TV Guide – 30-10-2017". BBC Asia. Archived from the original on 1 April 2019 . Retrieved 26 October 2017. The tour continued in April 2008 with dates at Wembley Arena, Nottingham Arena, Manchester Central, Cardiff St. David's and Birmingham Symphony Hall. [22]With so much more to discover, take a deep breath . . . and dive into a wondrous world beneath the waves. a b "BBC Earth to Premiere the Worldwide Phenomenon Planet Earth: Blue Planet II in Early 2018". BBC Worldwide North America Press Room. Archived from the original on 9 April 2018 . Retrieved 5 December 2017. Blue Planet II – The Prequel". BBC Earth Youtube Channel. Archived from the original on 16 October 2017 . Retrieved 16 October 2017.

I want to say, right off, I loved this book. I thought it was very informative and would be a wonderful resource for elementary school age children. The illustrations were gorgeous, soft yet vibrant and so very colorful.Unlike billions of other worlds in the Milky Way, 71 per cent of our Blue Planet is covered by ocean. It's home to the greatest diversity of life on Earth but is our least explored habitat; we've better maps of Mars than of the ocean floor. With over 200 breath-taking photographs and stills from the BBC Natural History Unit's spectacular footage, each chapter of Blue Planet II brings to life a different habitat of the oceanic world. From ambush hunters such as the carnivorous bobbit worm to cuttlefish mesmerising their prey with a pulsating light display, Blue Planet II reveals the never-before-seen secrets of the ocean. Sir David Attenborough to present Blue Planet II for BBC One". BBC Media Centre. Archived from the original on 23 February 2017 . Retrieved 20 December 2019.

How Hans Zimmer and Radiohead transformed "Bloom" for Blue Planet II". Vox Media. 29 September 2017. Archived from the original on 12 May 2020 . Retrieved 29 September 2017. Blue Planet II – Episode 4: Big Blue". BBC Media Centre. Archived from the original on 17 January 2019 . Retrieved 20 December 2019. Described as "the first ever comprehensive series on the natural history of the world's oceans", [1] each of the eight 50-minute episodes examines a different aspect of marine life. The underwater photography included creatures and behaviour that had previously never been filmed. [2] When first transmitted on BBC One, over 12 million people watched the series and it regularly achieved an audience share of over 30%.In the US and Canada, the DVD, [86] [87] Blu-ray [88] [89] and 4K UHD Blu-ray [90] [91] sets were released on 6 March 2018 and distributed by BBC Worldwide Americas.