Planet Earth FAQ

Sundays from March 25 through April 22,  2007
on Discovery Channel and in high definition on Discovery HD Theater

NEW ANIMAL BEHAVIOR SEEN IN PLANET EARTH

  • The rare Snow Leopard hunting in the Himalayas.
  • Grizzly Bears in the Rockies emerging from their dens with newborn cubs.
  • Lions hunting and killing elephants in the middle of the night.
  • More than one hundred Sailfish hunting together – it is rare to see even one at a time.
  • Wolves hunting Caribou – a complete hunt filmed from the air.
  • The never before filmed Blue Bird of Paradise performing a mating ritual.
  • Crab-eating macaques swimming underwater.
  • Golden Eagles taking Demoiselle cranes on their wings as they migrate over the Himalayas.
  • An extraordinary deep sea light show performed by vampiroteuthis - literally the "vampire squid from hell."
  • Pink River Dolphins presenting stones as “gifts” during courtship – the only known use of tools by wild dolphins.
  • Desert lions hunting Oryx in the Namib Desert – filmed from both the land and the air for the very first time.

NEW LOCATIONS SEEN IN PLANET EARTH

  • The world’s deepest cave shaft at 1,300 feet – the Cave of Swallows in Mexico.
  • The Gobi Desert in the middle of winter, covered in snow.
  • Under the ice of the world’s largest lake, Siberia’s Lake Baikal, which is frozen for five months of the year. The images reveal a world more like an ocean than a lake.
  • The remote Arctic island of Kong Karls Land - to gain unique access to the breeding ground of the world’s highest densities of polar bears.
  • The depths of Lake Malawi in Africa – home to electric fish that hunt their prey in shark-like packs.
  • The first high-quality aerial sequences of Everest.
  • Unique access to Pakistan’s Karakoram mountain range, which contains more of the world’s highest peaks than anywhere else on the planet.

NEW TECHNOLOGY USED IN FILMING PLANET EARTH

Cineflex Heligimble - a revolutionary new aerial photography system that stabilizes a very powerful lens to film animal behavior from the air as never seen before. Used by police, the military and some news organizations but never before in a wildlife film. Also captured tropical storms filmed from the air for the first time.

Ultra-high speed cameras slow down movement 40 times to fully capture rare animal predation such as great white sharks leaping out of the water to prey on seal, and crocodiles grabbing wildebeest.

High Definition images from space. Only from space can you appreciate the scale of the Himalayas or the extent of the Amazon River.

A new tracking system that carries a camera smoothly up over 100 meters to the top of the world's tallest tree in a single seamless shot.

Highly sensitive high definition cameras filmed spectacular displays of deep sea bio-luminescence of the vampire squid.

A deep sea time-lapse camera that was specially housed to survive the enormous pressures two miles down at the bottom of the abyss. Operated remotely from a submersible, this camera was used to show how the carcass of the dead tuna was quickly consumed by a weird range of deep sea scavengers.

Unique Time-lapse photography:

Computerized time-lapse system that ran for many months to display the changing seasons around the world.

Sequences of aurora australis, sand storms in the Sahara, the cherry blossom in Japan, the fall in the U.S., the flood coming to the Okavango Swamps.

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PLANET EARTH SCHEDULE -
All Times are ET/PT

Sundays from March 25 through April 22,  2007
on Discovery Channel and in high definition on Discovery HD Theater

Date Episode Title/Time

Sun, March 25
8 – POLE TO POLE
9 – MOUNTAINS
10- DEEP OCEAN

Sun, April 1
8 – DESERTS
9 – ICE WORLDS

Sun, April 8
8 – SHALLOW SEAS
9 – GREAT PLAINS

Sun, April 15
8- JUNGLES
9 – FRESH WATER

Sun, April 22 - (Earth Day) Full Day Marathon
8 – FORESTS
9 - CAVES

Planet Earth -
The Complete BBC Series
(2007)

Starring: Sigourney Weaver

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• Number of discs: 5
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• Studio: BBC Warner
• DVD Release Date: April 24, 2007
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• DVD Features:
• Available Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
• The 11-part series shot entirely in high-definition: From Pole to Pole, Mountains, Fresh Water, Caves, Deserts, Ice Worlds, Great Plains, Jungles, Shallow Seas, Seasonal Forests, Ocean Deep
• Original U.K. broadcast version, including 90 minutes not shown on the Discovery Channel
• 110 minutes of behind-the-scenes footage (included on standard-definition DVD release only)
• Planet Earth: The Future: 150-minute companion series (included on standard-definition DVD release only)