Frozen Planet II (BBC Earth)

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Frozen Planet was broadcast on BBC One starting 26 October 2011. Each of the first six episodes comprises the main programme followed by a 10-minute featurette called Freeze Frame, which shows how some of the sequences were filmed. David Attenborough's principal role is to narrate the programmes, but he appears briefly on camera to give an introduction and a closing statement. For the seventh programme, "On Thin Ice", he serves as writer and presenter for what was billed by the BBC as a personal statement on the effects of climate change at the poles. A special programme called "Frozen Planet: The Epic Journey" featuring re-edited highlights from the series was broadcast on BBC One on 28 December 2011. Summers in the Arctic today bring record-breaking heat. With climate change, it is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth. It is predicted that the Arctic Ocean could become ice-free each summer by 2035, raising new challenges for polar bears. Without sea ice, more and more bears are becoming stranded on remote Arctic islands. It's a dangerous place to be for a mother bear with cubs, surrounded by larger, predatory males.

Frozen Planet II review – TV so relentlessly wondrous that you'll feel like a child again". The Guardian. 11 September 2022 . Retrieved 19 September 2022. Three more awards for Open University co-production Frozen Planet at Wildscreen Panda Awards". Open University. Archived from the original on 13 December 2012 . Retrieved 4 February 2013. Elsewhere in the Arctic, it’s not just land ice that is disappearing. In the Gulf of St Lawrence, Canada, biologists are trying to find out how the loss of sea ice will impact the lives of baby harps. In Arctic Russia, with the loss of summer sea ice, more and more polar bears are arriving on the island of Wrangel. Here, a local ranger and scientists are braving the hungry bears to assess their future survival. National Television Awards 2013: Frozen Planet wins Best Documentary Series". Radio Times. Archived from the original on 25 January 2013 . Retrieved 4 February 2013.The subject of the second programme is to follow the polar spring: the ice melts and migratory animals move to the polar regions. Most animals give birth to their offspring. Animals highlighted in this episode include the Adélie penguin ( Pygoscelis adeliae), the polar bear ( Ursus maritimus) hunting for ringed seal ( Pusa hispida), the narwhal ( Monodon monoceros), a species of sea gooseberry (phylum Ctenophora), a species of sea slug, a species of sea snail, the Arctic cod (could be Arctogadus glacialis or Boreogadus saida), the Arctic woolly bear moth ( Gynaephora groenlandica), the Arctic wolf ( Canis lupus arctos), the king penguin ( Aptenodytes patagonicus), the macaroni penguin ( Eudyptes chrysolophus), the wandering albatross ( Diomedea exulans), the southern elephant seal ( Mirounga leonina), and the killer whale ( O. orca). Eleven years after the BBC Natural History Unit led by Alastair Fothergill and Vanessa Berlowitz capped its trilogy of documentary series on the wonders of our planet with the icy grandeurs of Frozen Planet, they return with a sequel – “To witness new wonders while there is still time to save them”. That’s Sir David Attenborough speaking. You knew that. a b c d e f g "Frozen Planet II - Filming locations, wildlife and behind the scenes secrets". www.bbc.co.uk . Retrieved 19 September 2022. Our planet is powered by the oceans, entangled in plants, and home to animals of every colour, shape and size. But in its last true wilderness, our planet is white . . . welcome to our frozen planet.

From chameleons giving birth on the frosty slopes of Mount Kenya to endangered Amur leopards in the Russian forest and killer whales hunting Weddell seals on ice floes in the Antarctic, Frozen Planet shares incredible undiscovered stories. BBC One - Frozen Planet, Winter, The newest polar bear in the world". BBC. 7 November 2011. Archived from the original on 13 December 2011 . Retrieved 13 December 2011. Our frozen planet is changing. In this final episode, we meet the scientists and people dedicating their lives to understanding what these changes mean, not just for the animals and people who live there, but for the world as a whole. Pearson, Allison (14 December 2011). "Fake? Sir David Attenborough is a wonder of the world". The Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 15 September 2017 . Retrieved 15 December 2011. Loss of sea ice impacts not just wildlife but people too. In the remote community of Qaanaaq, Greenland, local Inuit hunters are finding the ice too dangerous to travel and hunt on, risking their traditional way of life. And these changes happening in the Arctic have the potential to affect people far beyond. On Alaska’s open tundra, bubbling lakes hint at the gases being released from the previously frozen soil, including the potent greenhouse gas methane.Wrap up warm, and discover spine-tingling true stories from our incredible planet, in this ground-breaking new BBC Earth series narrated by Sir David Attenborough. Read more Details

The US broadcast won four prizes at the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards in September 2012, including outstanding nonfiction series, cinematography, sound editing, and picture editing. [40] The following month, it won in three categories at the Wildscreen Festival in Bristol, UK, taking the Panda Awards for best sound, best cinematography, and best series, the latter shared with Human Planet. [41] In January 2013, the series won the public vote for Best Documentary Series at the UK's National Television Awards, beating out Big Fat Gypsy Weddings, One Born Every Minute and Planet Earth Live. [42] Year Three disc region-free Blu-ray and Region 2+4 DVD box sets were released on 8 December 2011, and include the complete series as broadcast in the UK, [44] [45] although On Thin Ice is considered a special feature on the third disc. In North America, the Blu-ray and Region 1 DVD box sets were released on 17 April 2012, and unlike the Discovery broadcast version, retained David Attenborough's original narration. They also include extra features not present on the UK discs: Frozen Planet: The Epic Journey, an hour-long edited highlights, and Production Video Diaries, a series of 47 video shorts made by the crew as they filmed the series. [46] Book [ edit ] The fifth instalment is set in the polar winter: the polar regions are scourged by extreme cold and strong winds. The snow spreads into the subarctic regions such as the taiga forests of the Northern Hemisphere. Animals highlighted in this episode include the polar bear, the spectacled eider ( Somateria fischeri), the common eider, the gray wolf hunting for American bison, the wolverine ( Gulo gulo), the common raven ( Corvus corax), an unspecified vole (subfamily Arvicolinae) hunted by both the great grey owl and the least weasel ( Mustela nivalis), the emperor penguin, the Weddell seal, the bald notothen ( Pagothenia borchgrevinki, called "Borchgrevinki fish" by David Attenborough), and the Adélie penguin. Killer whales would be fine as an alternative if for one fact: they are NOT members of the whale family fore crying out loud and it is just wrong to refer to them that way.Environmental storytelling is much more engrained in this series. We get the audience invested in our characters, which we then use to communicate the message. Our harp seal sequence in Greenland is a good example. Females abandon their pups at just 12 days old, having introduced them to swimming, so they can breed again.