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Discovery’s ‘Planet Earth’ Airs in U.S.

The 11-part series dubbed Planet Earth, beginning last night and airing over the next five weeks on the Discovery Channel, weaves several naratives throughout the episodes as it tells the story, writes Andrew Lyons of Media Life.

The series was shot over 5 years, on 200 locations and with over 70 camera people. Each episode in the series introduces a world and its inhabitants, focuses on an individual or family, gets to know them, then films them as they face threats both environmental and predatory.

“Each species is captured in such fascinating detail and each creature’s journey is so specific that their stories never bore,” Lyons writes.

Planet Earth drew up to 9 million viewers when it aired in the U.K. on BBC last year, USA Today points out.