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[SennaVille]

I'm hooked on the series! Anyone else watching it? I think my fave so far is those Mangolians and their eagles. The whole series is pretty great!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00llpvp

[vaptin]

I'm watching.

Wasn't as good as I first thought, and whats with this behind the lens bullpoo.

Overall though, the sort of thing I really appreciate the bbc for.

Particularly liked the footage of the Mongolian step and the nomadic horse riding cattle herders not too dissimilar from what Genghis Khan rose from, pity it was so short.

Maybe they should have done it more from cultures, than natural environments?

[SennaVille]

I'm watching.

Wasn't as good as I first thought, and whats with this behind the lens bullpoo.

Overall though, the sort of thing I really appreciate the bbc for.

Particularly liked the footage of the Mongolian step and the nomadic horse riding cattle herders not too dissimilar from what Genghis Khan rose from, pity it was so short.

Maybe they should have done it more from cultures, than natural environments?

I think the whole point is to show how us humans adapt to our environment, not so much about individual cultures,

My brother works for the BBC, he says that the amount of cash they have for production costs is amazing. Look at Top Gear, dragging them off to far-flung places with all that gear isn't cheap. It's worth it though, the beeb has THE best programmes.

[vaptin]

I'm watching.

Wasn't as good as I first thought, and whats with this behind the lens bullpoo.

Overall though, the sort of thing I really appreciate the bbc for.

Particularly liked the footage of the Mongolian step and the nomadic horse riding cattle herders not too dissimilar from what Genghis Khan rose from, pity it was so short.

Maybe they should have done it more from cultures, than natural environments?

I think the whole point is to show how us humans adapt to our environment, not so much about individual cultures,

I guess so, just I'd prefer to see it about the study of people living non-western lifestyles, but I agree, it clearly has a focus on geography,

my brother works for the BBC, he says that the amount of cash they have for production costs is amazing. Look at Top Gear, dragging them off to far-flung places with all that gear isn't cheap. It's worth it though, the beeb has THE best programmes.

It sure won't be cheap, must take ages to research as well, but I wonder if cutbacks have had an effect and surely the behind the lens segment is just filler?

I know I sound critical, but its more a similar disappoint I had after subsequent viewings of Merlin, this clearly had a good concept, whoever sat down and wrote it was onto something, but after a while it dawned on me that it wasn't what it had promised to be. It was actually quite superficial,a bit "lighweight".

[smokin]

I'm watching.

Wasn't as good as I first thought, and whats with this behind the lens bullpoo.

Overall though, the sort of thing I really appreciate the bbc for.

Particularly liked the footage of the Mongolian step and the nomadic horse riding cattle herders not too dissimilar from what Genghis Khan rose from, pity it was so short.

Maybe they should have done it more from cultures, than natural environments?

I've not seen The Human Planet but if other BBC nature series are anything to go by the 'Behind the Lens' segment may be filler so the series can be sold to US networks. US hour long segments include 15 minutes of adverts so omitting the filler still leaves a complete uncut program in 45 minutes.

Just guessing.

[texasmr2]

US hour long segments include 15 minutes of adverts so omitting the filler still leaves a complete uncut program in 45 minutes.

I have actually timed the adverts and a 1hr show is only 30min's of the actual show .

[darwin dali]

US hour long segments include 15 minutes of adverts so omitting the filler still leaves a complete uncut program in 45 minutes.

I have actually timed the adverts and a 1hr show is only 30min's of the actual show .

Main reason why I don't watch any of those series on regular networks - waste of time, literally.
HBO, SHO, STARZ to the fore

[vaptin]

Really liked the last episode, good message, well made too. And perfectly correct of course.

[myownalias]

I watched the latest episode on the iPlayer and found it very interesting; kinda interesting to see human interaction with animals in the city!

As for the advertising in the US and even the UK now; SKY TV advertise way too much as its a subscription service, I don't like the idea of paying $53 for pretty basic cable without premium channels when I spend more time watching adverts than I do watching the actual content I pay for; $10 for Netflix is a much better value and no advertisements!

[smokin]

I watched the latest episode on the iPlayer and found it very interesting; kinda interesting to see human interaction with animals in the city!

As for the advertising in the US and even the UK now; SKY TV advertise way too much as its a subscription service, I don't like the idea of paying $53 for pretty basic cable without premium channels when I spend more time watching adverts than I do watching the actual content I pay for; $10 for Netflix is a much better value and no advertisements!

Netflix is in Canada now. Coincidentally (?), the cable and DSL companies have started enforcing overage charges, citing bandwidth issues...

[myownalias]

I watched the latest episode on the iPlayer and found it very interesting; kinda interesting to see human interaction with animals in the city!

As for the advertising in the US and even the UK now; SKY TV advertise way too much as its a subscription service, I don't like the idea of paying $53 for pretty basic cable without premium channels when I spend more time watching adverts than I do watching the actual content I pay for; $10 for Netflix is a much better value and no advertisements!

Netflix is in Canada now. Coincidentally (?), the cable and DSL companies have started enforcing overage charges, citing bandwidth issues...

From what I have been reading; the same is true in the UK where British Telecom are using a new tiered system where to access highspeed access to things like the iPlayer is going to cost more or the content providers themselves have to pay ISP's to allow full speed access to their websites; thankfully that isn't the case in the US as yet!