'Life' on BBC1 tonight

RobinP · #1 (**permalink**) 12-10-2009, 02:45 PM

9 pm, sounds like another Attenborough classic, not for the fluffy bunny brigade though!

ChrisR · #2 (**permalink**) 12-10-2009, 03:18 PM

Yes, I've been looking forward to this for weeks - it looks as if it will be superb. at 21:00 tonight all the phones go off the hook and I'm kicking-back in front of the telly

shirl · #3 (**permalink**) 12-10-2009, 04:31 PM

Me too and I will be recording it just incase I get disturbed. It sounds excellent

Shirl

Hedera · #4 (**permalink**) 12-10-2009, 04:47 PM

Likewise! Have you listened to his Life Stories on Radio 4 8.45 Sunday a.m.? I loved the one about the Sloth.

praxiskipsis · #5 (**permalink**) 12-10-2009, 05:05 PM

I can't wait. Attenborough is a God!!

I've been sessioning blue planet and life on earth for months to get my fix. Finally a new series

ChrisR · #6 (**permalink**) 13-10-2009, 03:28 PM

So, what did people think?

I have to say I wasn't as blown-away as I had hoped but there were plenty of "oh wow!" moments and it has all the amazing photography of previous shows like Planet Earth or Blue Planet. Maybe the slight anti-climax was caused by most of the footage being used in the trailers over the last few weeks. I'm looking forward to the next episode in the hope that there is more of a surprise or two

Hedera · #7 (**permalink**) 13-10-2009, 04:22 PM

I was most intrigued by the tree frog, carrying the tadpole on its back to a bromeliad plant for a pool of water. How did the little thing stay stuck on? All the photgraphy was brilliant.

ChrisR · #8 (**permalink**) 13-10-2009, 05:23 PM

By the miracle of surface tension

But I agree, the poison arrow frog was wonderful ... but what intrigued me most was how it could remember where it left each of the 6 or so tadpoles so it could keep going back to them and laying eggs in their bromeliads ... that's quite some memory and a huge feat of endurance climbing for such a tiny creature