Chris Packham: 7.7 Billion People and Counting
Jan 17, 2020Naturalist Chris Packham investigates the impact a growing human population is having on the planet, asking whether the earth can sustain predictions of ten billion people by 2050.
Chris Packham
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Collection of highlights from the first and second series of British comic Sarah Millican's show about television. The programme includes stand-up routines, sketches and interviews with stars. In this collection Sarah has a makeover à la 'Geordie Shore', bakes scones with chef Paul Hollywood and attempts to do a forward roll with help from gymnast Beth Tweddle and commentary from sports presenter Clare Balding.
Comedy
Chris Packham: Is It Time to Break the Law?
Sep 20, 2023Chris Packham attempts to resolve a key dilemma of our times: is it ethically acceptable to break the law to protest against government policies on climate change?
Documentary
The British Garden: Life and Death on Your Lawn
Jul 11, 2017Chris Packham and a team of wildlife experts follow five suburban gardens over a year, uncovering hidden wildlife dramas, and a vast cast of creatures battling for survival.
Documentary
Attenborough at 90
May 08, 2016In celebration of his ninetieth birthday, Sir David Attenborough shares extraordinary highlights of his life and career with broadcaster Kirsty Young, including the inspiring people he has met, the extraordinary journeys he has made and the remarkable animal encounters he has had across the globe. Joined by colleagues and friends, including Michael Palin and Chris Packham, Sir David shares some of the unforgettable moments from his unparalleled career, from capturing unique animal behaviour for the first time to the fast-paced advances in wildlife filming technology, as well as stories of the wonder and fragility of the natural world - stories that Sir David has spent his life exploring and championing.
Documentary
Discover the World of Animals
Jun 26, 1991
Decade of Discovery
Dec 14, 2010Chris Packham presents, mentioning others that didn't quite make the list, his favorite top ten animal - and plant species from the half million discovered in the first decade of the 21st century. The animals include the most endangered African monkey, a lemur (Madagascar simian), a mouse-size and -resembling relative of the elephant, a Caribean island-adapted sloth, a shark which 'walks coral reefs on an arm', the largest mega-stick, a deep sea jellyfish without tentacles and a jungle gecko mutation happening in Malaysian state Perlis in order to flee serpent predation into caves. Plant species include a giant Venus-flytrap on Palawan (Philipines) and the largest ever orchid from Peru.
Documentary
Murmur
Apr 23, 2023A contemporary fairytale about the relationship between a mother and her autistic daughter, and their fascination with starling murmurations. Evie doesn’t seem to talk very much, though we learn she communicates with everything - the plants, grass, water, TV static and the starlings that gather over the sea. As murmurations form, so awakens a sense of understanding, connection and acceptance between mother and daughter. Murmur is a story of beauty and awe, utilising the stunning spectacle of the murmuration, a sign of greatness, as a metaphor for Autism Advocacy.
Drama
La vérité sur le T-Rex
Jan 02, 2018Le Tyrannosaure Rex a été l'un des plus grands carnivores terrestres. Il reste le super prédateur de la Préhistoire et le dinosaure le plus célèbre de la culture populaire, avec ses pattes postérieures puissantes et son énorme mâchoire. Mais à quoi ressemblait-il vraiment ? Sa réputation est-elle justifiée ? Une équipe internationale de paléontologues, de biologistes et de naturalistes entreprend de rétablir la véritable image de ce dinosaure mythique. Les experts dressent un portrait qui va à l'encontre de nombreuses idées reçues. Sa tête et son cou, pour commencer, auraient été couverts d'une crinière, vraisemblablement colorée.
Documentary
Chris Packham: Asperger's and Me
Oct 17, 2017Chris Packham invites us inside his autistic world to find out what it is like being him.
Documentary
Chris Packham: Forever Punk
Jan 10, 2020Chris Packham reveals how punk rock not only may have saved his life as a teenager but how it has given it meaning and informed everything he has done ever since.
Documentary
Chris Packham: In Search of the Lost Girl
Jan 28, 2018In 1998, Chris Packham met a hunter-gatherer tribe in remote Sumatra. 20 years later, he goes in search of the same tribe to search for the girl whose photograph he took.
Documentary
The Trials of Life
Oct 03, 1990Each of the twelve 50-minute episodes features a different aspect of the journey through life, from birth to adulthood and continuation of the species through reproduction.
Documentary
Behind the scenes of the documentary series The Trials Of Life showing how some of the footage was captured and interviews with the experts that informed them.
Documentary
Chris Packham's Animal Einsteins
Mar 28, 2021Chris Packham reveals the natural world’s surprising brainboxes and clever strategies.
Documentary
Winterwatch
Jan 19, 2024Live coverage as our wildlife faces up to the most challenging time of year.
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Britain's Ancient Capital: Secrets Of Orkney
Jan 16, 2017Neil Oliver, Chris Packham, Andy Torbet and Dr Shini Somara join hundreds of archaeologists from around the world who have gathered in Orkney to investigate at one of Europe's biggest digs.
Documentary
The Really Wild Show
May 18, 2006The Really Wild Show was a long-running British television show about wildlife, broadcast by the BBC as part of their CBBC service to children. It also runs on Animal Planet in the US.
The show was broadcast continuously since 21 January 1986. In April 2006 the BBC announced that the show would be axed that summer, and as such the last ever episode was shown in April 2006, giving the show a run of 20 years.
Kids
Yellowstone Live
Jun 26, 2019Sitting on top of one of the world’s largest super-volcanos are 3,500 square miles of the most spectacular American wilderness. This summer, National Geographic Channel opens this world to you LIVE with a four-night special event. The action reaches boiling point in the world’s first National Park, Yellowstone.
Documentary
Blue Planet Revisited
Apr 05, 2020
The Burrowers
Aug 30, 2013The Burrowers follows Chris Packham as he goes underground to take a look at the subterranean world of some of the country’s most iconic animals.
Documentary
Painting Birds with Jim and Nancy Moir
Jun 05, 2024Comedic ornithological series, Painting Birds with Jim and Nancy Moir will follow prolific artist Jim and his wife Nancy as they explore some of Britain’s best beauty spots, joined along the way by a few famous friends. Their challenge? Create an original piece of bird art celebrating the unique species native to that region over the course of a weekend. Accompanied in each episode by local twitchers, artists and conservation experts, Jim, and Nancy will be guided through forest and fen as they venture through wild countryside and local bird sanctuaries to gather inspiration. They’ll spend meditative weekends sketching and painting their feathery subjects, tackling everything from grouse to goshawks and bitterns to bearded tits.
Documentary
Inside the Animal Mind
Feb 11, 2014Chris Packham travels the world to uncover the secrets of the animal mind.
Documentary
Les superpouvoirs des animaux
Oct 29, 2014Cette série étudie les physiologies incroyables des espèces les mieux adaptées à leur environnement en se fondant sur les dernières recherches scientifiques.
Documentary
Chris and Meg's Wild Summer
Oct 03, 2021Wildlife presenters Chris Packham and stepdaughter Megan McCubbin go on a road trip with amazing animal encounters, stunning landscapes and time to reflect on their relationship.
Documentary
Would I Lie to You?
Mar 08, 2024A comedic panel show featuring team captains Lee Mack and David Mitchell plus two guests per side, hosted by Rob Brydon (formerly Angus Deayton). Each person must reveal embarrassing facts and outrageous lies during a series of different rounds including "Home Truths", "This Is My..." and "Quickfire Lies". It is up to the opposing team to tell tall tales from fantastic facts.
Comedy
The Animal's Guide to Britain
May 12, 2011Each episode, he encounters an elite group of five animals each of which senses the world in a very different way. By understanding their needs, problems and histories on these islands, Chris reveals what they make of modern Britain - and its humans.
Documentary
Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule
Jul 20, 2019Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule is a panel show that sees Harry Hill presiding over two teams tasked with saving planet earth from alien invasion! Each team must find clips, people, basically anything that is fun or funny enough for Harry to place in a capsule which, in the event that we're invaded by aliens, we can present to them to demonstrate earthlings are good fun and therefore worthy of saving. Over a series of rounds, the two teams of two present Harry with fun stuff which Harry must adjudicate on and ultimately decide what's in and what's out of the Fun Capsule with the triumphant team winning bragging rights. Along the way there will be sketches, studio items and special guests. And the occasional appearance of an alien.
Comedy
World's Sneakiest Animals
Jan 14, 2016Chris Packham meets the animals using devious tactics and sneaky tricks to survive.
Meet the cross-dressing love cheat cuttlefish, the two-faced topi, the devious freshwater mussel and other utterly remarkable devious animals.
Documentary
Les 5 vies de la Terre
Aug 14, 2023La série documentaire Les 5 vies de la Terre explore notre planète et son histoire, ainsi que son caractère unique dans le système solaire. Telle une biographie de notre planète, ces films révèlent les moments les plus épiques de son histoire astronomique et géologique, des premières secondes de son existence jusqu’à l’arrivée des êtres humains.
Documentary
Nature's Weirdest Events
May 08, 2017Chris Packham takes us to the scene of some of the weirdest natural phenomena on the planet, telling the real story of the events behind the headlines.
Nature can be cute, scary and stunning, but as Chris Packham discovers in these two packed programs, it can also provide the most awesome, amazing and astonishing sights you’ll ever see – including a car cocooned by caterpillars in Holland; exploding toads in Germany; fish falling from the sky and a storm that turned Sydney crimson.
Watching original footage and consulting eyewitnesses and scientists, Chris unravels the facts behind some of the most bizarre and mysterious natural wonders to ever appear on the planet – and explains what on earth was going on.
Documentary
World's Weirdest Events
Oct 22, 2015A series that explores the unexplained, the unexpected and the unidentifiable. Chris Packham unlocks the secrets behind the world's weirdest events.
Documentary
Cunk on...
Oct 18, 2022Philomena Cunk, journaliste d'investigation, revient avec une série de mockumentary qui fera date, en parcourant l'histoire britannique.
Comedy
Horizon
Jul 22, 2024Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.
Documentary
Mongrels
Dec 19, 2011Mongrels, formerly known under the working titles of We Are Mongrels and The Un-Natural World, is a British puppet-based situation comedy series first broadcast on BBC Three between 22 June and 10 August 2010, with a making-of documentary entitled "Mongrels Uncovered" broadcast on 11 August 2010. A second series of Mongrels began airing on 7 November 2011.
The series revolves around the lives of five anthropomorphic animals who hang around the back of a pub in Millwall, the Isle of Dogs, London. The characters are Nelson, a metrosexual fox; Destiny, an Afghan hound; Marion, a "borderline-retarded" cat; Kali, a grudge-bearing pigeon; and Vince, Nelson's friend, a sociopathic foul-mouthed fox.
Comedy
Autumnwatch New England
Oct 19, 2018BBC host Chris Packham and wildlife cinematographer Bob Poole are joined by travel journalist Samantha Brown for this special PBS edition of the first-ever season of Autumnwatch produced in America. This series in three parts travels across the colorful landscapes of New England, meeting a cast of unforgettable wildlife characters, and experiencing some of the best autumn has to offer, including leaf gazing, pumpkin carving and cranberry harvesting. Local experts in food, wildlife, music, literature and history join the trio of hosts each night to showcase characteristics special to New England.
Family
Our Changing Planet
Apr 23, 2023An ambitious seven-year natural history series documenting six of the planet's most threatened ecosystems and meeting the people fighting to restore the Earth’s delicate balance.
Documentary
Holby City
Mar 29, 2022Le quotidien professionnel et personnel des médecins, infirmières et patients qui se retrouvent, pour diverses raisons, dans les couloirs du Holby City General Hospital.
Soap
Hive Alive
Jul 22, 2014Chris Packham and Martha Kearney consult experts and use modern technology to examine the lives and times of honeybees.
Documentary
Cats v Dogs: Which is Best?
Feb 11, 2016Armed with the latest global scientific research, Chris Packham and Liz Bonnin battle it out in this two part programme to find the definitive answer to the burning question - which are best, cats or dogs?
The Last Leg
Dec 13, 2024Adam Hills and co-hosts Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker provide some offbeat commentary on the significant moments of the past seven days.
Talk
Duck Quacks Don't Echo
Oct 19, 2017Lee Mack wrangles a team of scientists and celebrity guests to find the truth behind the trivia on this bizarrely educational panel show.
Comedy
Secrets of Our Living Planet
Jul 08, 2012In this series, naturalist Chris Packham reveals the natural world in a way that you’ve never seen it before. For him, what is really beautiful about nature is not the amazing animals and plants that we share the planet with but the hidden relationships between them. These relationships may sound bizarre but without them, no life would be possible. Discover previously unknown relationships, like why a tiger needs a crab; or why a gecko needs a giraffe. Each week Chris visits one of our planet's most vital and spectacular habitats and dissects it, to reveal the secrets of how our living planet works.
Documentary
Curious Creatures
May 30, 2018An entertaining and enlightening game show celebrating the animal kingdom, with two competing teams going head-to-head across a variety of intriguing rounds in which the experts' knowledge of wild beasts is tested to the limit.
Room 101
Apr 06, 2018Fast-moving game show meets talk show, which sees Frank Skinner refereeing three celebrities each week as they compete to banish their top peeve or worst nightmare to the depths of Room 101.
Comedy
Insert Name Here
Feb 27, 2019Comedy panel show about people with the same first name, hosted by Sue Perkins.
Comedy
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
Dec 09, 2024Based on the week’s news and fronted by guest hosts, this extended version of the satirical news quiz features more of the stuff that wouldn't fit into the regular programme.
News
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Jan 15, 2015Never Mind the Buzzcocks is a comedy panel game show with a pop and rock music theme. The show is infamous for its dry, sarcastic humour and scathing, provocative attacks on the pop industry.
Comedy
Operation Iceberg
Nov 01, 2012A groundbreaking expedition to the Arctic investigates the unknown world of icebergs, exploring the creation, life and death of these frozen behemoths for the first time
Documentary
The Weakest Link
Oct 05, 2024Romesh Ranganathan takes charge of the back-stabbing big money game show. Can the contestants create a chain of answers and avoid the boot?
Reality
Rob Beckett's Smart TV
Apr 18, 2024Hosted by the brilliant Rob Beckett alongside his team captains – TV fanatic Josh Widdicombe, and a lady who frankly is TV, Alison Hammond – the show is a hilarious celebration of the small screen and the shows we love (and some we don’t).
Comedy
Michael McIntyre's The Wheel
Dec 07, 2024Michael McIntyre hosts a gameshow packed with huge stars, big laughs and a giant spinning wheel. Can the contestants, guided by celebrity experts, answer their way to a fortune?
Reality
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Dec 15, 2024The big names behind the big stories. Laura Kuenssberg talks to those making the news, inside and outside politics.
News
La Grande Famille des chiens
Jan 11, 2023La grande famille des chiens et des canidés est d'une diversité exceptionnelle. Elle compte 37 espèces différentes, dont les loups, les renards, les lycaons, les dholes, les chacals, les fennecs, ou encore les dingos. Ces animaux intrépides ont conquis presque tous les milieux de la planète, du pôle Nord glacial au désert caniculaire, de la cime des arbres au coeur des villes. Cependant, malgré leur ingéniosité et leur adaptabilité, de nombreux canidés sont aujourd'hui menacés d'extinction, comme le loup d'Ethiopie ou le renard du Brésil. Leurs habitats ne cessent de se réduire au profit de terres de cultures.
Documentary
Through the Keyhole
Feb 23, 2019What would happen if Keith Lemon had permission to snoop around celebrities' homes? Find out as Through The Keyhole returns, with everyone's favourite strawberry-blonde presenter at the helm!
Comedy
Springwatch
Jun 13, 2024Springwatch is an annual BBC television series which charts the fortunes of British wildlife during the changing of the seasons in the United Kingdom.
Documentary
Inside Our Autistic Minds
Feb 21, 2023Thinking differently. Chris Packham helps autistic people illustrate how their minds work, helping them connect with their friends and family in a new, more authentic way.
Documentary
Cluedo
May 24, 1993Cluedo was a UK television game show based on the board game of the same name. Each week, a reenactment of the murder at the stately home Arlington Grange of a visiting guest was played and, through a combination of interrogating the suspects and deduction, celebrity guests had to discover who committed the murder, which of six weapons and in which room it was committed, whilst viewers were invited to play along at home.
Crime
Ready Steady Cook
Feb 02, 2010Talented chefs battle it out against the clock, creating delicious dishes in 20 minutes
Reality
Primates
May 17, 2020A celebration of the animals you thought you knew. Primates is the definitive portrait of a hugely charismatic family of animals, to which we all belong.
Documentary
Ready Steady Cook
Feb 02, 2010Talented chefs battle it out against the clock, creating delicious dishes in 20 minutes
Reality
Evolution
Jan 01, 1970All the incredible diversity of animal life sprang from a single organism. Every animal, no matter how weird, is related to every other. And behind each species is an incredible story of the millions of generations that gave rise to it - every animal we know and love today sprang from creatures that looked nothing like it.
Documentary
Celebrity Gogglebox
Jul 12, 2024A rolling cast of famous faces, some of Britain's best loved personalities, turn their hand to being the country's most opinionated viewers, sharing their opinions on what they have been watching during the week.
Reality
Waterhole: Africa's Animal Oasis
Dec 18, 2020Explorer les oasis animées où les éléphants, les lions, les léopards et des centaines d'autres espèces se rencontrent et se disputent l'eau.
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