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The biggest talking point surrounding the upcoming Doctor Who Christmas special is, of course, how it’s Peter Capaldi’s final hour, before he regenerates into Jodie Whittaker. But it’s worth remembering that the episode, titled “Twice Upon a Time,” is also the last one to be written by showrunner Steven Moffat, before he hands over the keys to the Tardis to new guy Chris Chibnall.

Moffat has helmed the show for the past seven years, casting and overseeing the whole eras of both Matt Smith and Capaldi’s Doctors. Though he’s also known for creating BBC’s Sherlock, he’s never been shy about showing his love for Doctor Who above all else. And, now that he’s leaving, he’s taken the time to give a touching speech about why he believes the sci-fi series is the best TV show ever made.

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The BBC has announced today that it’s giving its viewers a special treat over the upcoming yuletide period, as several of the network’s top shows will be made available to stream online. The series chosen include Doctor Who, Sherlock, Line of Duty, Planet Earth, Happy Valley and many more. From what we understand, they’ll be made available on the BBC’s catch-up service BBC iPlayer, in a move that suggests the corporation is trying to rebrand the site as a rival to the likes of Netflix and Amazon Prime.

BBC director of content Charlotte Moore had this to say about the treat in a statement released earlier:

“It’s fantastic to give audiences a special gift on iPlayer to complement our schedules. Sit back and indulge as we curate some of the most loved shows you may have missed first time round or favourites you want to watch again.

Every time a new Planet Earth special hits The BBC, I always have to jump in. There's just something amazing about the video quality of the documentaries that gives you an almost indescribable sense of wonder...it's great. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, check out this preview for Blue Planet II which features a Hans Zimmer and Radiohead collaboration that can't be missed!

Planet Earth: Blue Planet II is expected to release in early 2018. ...

Aside from being one of the biggest bands in the world, Radiohead are no strangers to film work. The band themselves have had songs featured in dozens of movies and TV shows (most recently the likes of “Black Mirror,” “Westworld,” “The Gambler” and “I Origins”), of course, while Jonny Greenwood has become the composer of choice to some of the best filmmakers we have, Paul Thomas Anderson and Lynne Ramsay.

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Radiohead and Hans Zimmer announced earlier this month their debut collaboration would be a song off the soundtrack for BBC’s “Blue Planet II,” and now the track has finally debuted. The song, titled “ocean (bloom),” is a reimagining of the Radiohead track “Bloom” off their eighth album “King of Limbs.” Thom Yorke provided new vocals for the song and teamed up with the BBC Concert Orchestra for the recording.

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“‘Bloom’ was inspired by the original ‘Blue Planet’ series so it’s great to be able to come full circle with the song and reimagine it for this incredible landmark sequel,” Yorke said in an official statement. “Hans is a prodigious composer who effortlessly straddles several musical genres so it was liberating for us all to work with such a talent and see how he wove the...

The #stopHansZimmer hashtag was created after the composer was brought in to provide the music for Blade Runner 2049, with critics claiming he’s too dominant

Rare is it that composers of instrumental music can get the time of day from the general public, but Hans Zimmer is a bona fide rockstar. His summer tour played to zealous fans throughout Europe and North America at venues such as Wembley Arena, Radio City Music Hall in New York, and a rousing set at Coachella. The Supermarine cue from his Dunkirk score has a ready spot on my iPhone’s playlist and, although the 60-year-old Frankfurt native is a phenomenon deserving our respect, but maybe it’s time to reel it in a little.

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Radiohead and Hans Zimmer will team up on a track for “Planet Earth: Blue Planet II,” the BBC announced on Thursday. The acclaimed rock band and composer will team up to record a reimagined version of the 2011 Radiohead song “(ocean) bloom” with the BBC Concert Orchestra. The track is a fitting choice, given that the song was inspired by the original 2001 “Blue Planet” series. The collaboration, produced by Russell Emanuel of Bleeding Fingers Music, will premiere in a prequel to the nature documentary series set to be released on Sept. 27. Also Read: How BBC America's Nature Series 'Planet Earth II'.

Radiohead and prolific film composer Hans Zimmer have teamed up for a new version of one of the band’s songs for the BBC’s upcoming Blue Planet II nature documentary series. The song, called “(Ocean) Bloom,” is an orchestral reworking of the skittering, percussive “Bloom” from the band’s 2011 album The King Of Limbs.…

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Radiohead and Hans Zimmer. Need we say more? The band and the iconic film composer have teamed up for a track off the soundtrack to the upcoming BBC natural history series “Blue Planet II.” Radiohead has updated the song “Bloom” off their eighth studio album “King of Limbs” with the help of Zimmer. The new track for the series is called “(ocean) bloom” and will be featured in a five-minute prequel to the series.

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“‘Bloom’ was inspired by the original ‘Blue Planet’ series so it’s great to be able to come full circle with the song and reimagine it for this incredible landmark’s sequel,” Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke said in an official statement. “Hans is a prodigious composer who effortlessly straddles several musical genres so it was liberating for us all...

Rana Daggubati’s career graph is moving up slowly and steadily. The star has had a great year so far with his The Ghazi Attack, Baahubali: the Conclusion and now Nene Raju Nene Mantri.

His latest release, Nene Raju Nene Mantri opened to packed houses on August 11 and has been declared a smash hit already.

Interestingly, the film has been bankrolled by his father D Suresh Babu under their banner Suresh Productions along with Kiran Reddy and Bharath Chowdary’s Blue Planet Entertainments.

Today is a big day for Doctor Who fans, as actress Jodie Whittaker has officially been announced as the Thirteenth Time Lord on the long-running BBC series, with Peter Capaldi making his bow as the 12th Doctor during this year's Christmas special:

Press Release (via The Futon Critic): New York - July 16, 2017 - The BBC and BBC America today announced to the world that Jodie Whittaker will be the new Doctor Who. She will be the Thirteenth Time Lord and take over from Peter Capaldi who leaves the global hit show at Christmas.

New head writer and executive producer Chris Chibnall who takes over from Steven Moffat on the next series made the decision to cast the first ever woman in the iconic role.

Jodie Whittaker says: "I'm beyond excited to begin this epic journey - with Chris and with every Whovian on this planet. It's more than an honor to play the Doctor.

On the heels of “Planet Earth II” airing its finale on BBC America, the network announced that the musical team behind its breathtaking score will be back for “Blue Planet II.”

The legendary Oscar winner Hans Zimmer had put his talents to work for the first time in the natural history genre by composing the theme for “Planet Earth II,” while Bleeding Fingers’ co-composers Jacob Shea and Jasha Klebe tackled the stirring score. For their new venture, the team will score the seven-part series that takes place in each of the world’s oceans.

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“It’s an incredible opportunity and privilege to be working again with the BBC’s Natural History Unit on such a globally important project,” Zimmer said in a statement. “It’s a joy to compose to such beautiful, powerful and inspiring picture. Once more...

BBC America is doubling down on “Top Gear.”

The network is adding an American version of its popular car and racing show to its lineup that still includes the original British “Top Gear,” now in its 24th season. “Top Gear America” will premiere later this year with eight hour-long episodes.

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As with the original, “Top Gear America” will be presented by a trio of hosts that include “The Dark Knight” actor, car nut and competitive racer William Fichtner; world champion drag racer Antron Brown and premier British automative journalist Tom “Wookie” Ford. (Incidentally, that is a misspelled reference to the “Star Wars” race of Wookiee.)

Ford is extending his relationship to the “Top Gear” brand and BBC America. He is currently the Associate Editor of Top Gear Magazine, and contributes to both TopGear.

For the final installment in a three-part series of videos about the technology that makes “Planet Earth II” possible, Vox takes a look at the acclaimed docuseries’ nighttime photography. After first comparing footage of the black sicklebill — a bird known for a strange courtship dance males engage in at dawn — captured in 1996 and 2015, the seven-minute video goes back to the ’70s and ’80s, when shooting footage at night was considerably more difficult than it is now.

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The reasons why are fairly simple: Nocturnal animals were bothered by the artificial light necessary to record them with any degree of clarity, and existing technology didn’t allow for more covert methods. Infrared cameras had gone a long way toward solving that problem when “Planet Earth” first came around; now, a combination of infrared, high-resolution and slow-motion technology...

The Doctor will face off with a very old but familiar foe this season.

“Doctor Who” returns for what will be the Twelfth Doctor’s (Peter Capaldi) final season on April 15. Before his regeneration, however, the Doctor will encounter the Cybermen again. But this is not the sleek rebooted Cybermen that we’ve been used to since the series’ revival. Take a look:

They’re back!

The original Mondasian Cybermen are returning for episodes 11 & 12 of the new series of #DoctorWho! pic.twitter.com/xgRFjSiMsM

— Doctor Who Bbca (@DoctorWho_BBCA) March 6, 2017

For those who need a refresher, the Cybermen originally entered the world of “Doctor Who” in 1966. Hailing from Earth’s twin planet of Mondas millions of years ago, the planet was knocked out of solar orbit (yes, suspension of disbelief is required) and drifted into deep space. The Mondasians were far more technologically advanced than the mere Earthlings who were left behind though,...

Looks like you’ll have access to E!’s Arrangement earlier than everyone thought.

The cable network has made the premiere of its new drama, The Arrangement, available online ahead of its March 5 airdate (10/9c).

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The upcoming series — which stars Josh Henderson (Dallas), Christine Evangelista (Chicago Fire) and Michael Vartan (Alias) — centers on an A-list Hollywood superstar who has ties to a controversial organization and who offers a young actress a marital contract.

You can watch the entire hour-length episode (minus commercials) by pressing Play on the video above.

BBC America announced “Blue Planet II,” a new installment of the nature documentary series, on Sunday. The seven-episode series that will explore the world’s oceans will be presented by world-renowned broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough. “I am truly thrilled to be joining this new exploration of the underwater worlds which cover most of our planet, yet are still its least known,” Attenborough said. The announcement comes just a week after Bbca premiered “Planet Earth II” in the United States. Also Read: Benedict Cumberbatch to Star in BBC Adaptation of 'The Child in Time' “Blue Planet II” explores the latest frontiers of scientific discovery,...

BBC America has greenlit Blue Planet II, a new seven-part series presented by Sir David Attenborough that will take a deep dive into the world's oceans. The news comes a day after Bbca premiered Planet Earth II, a follow-up to BBC’s 2006 acclaimed nature docuseries. Blue Planet II will explore the latest frontiers of scientific discovery, from icy-white polar seas to vibrant blues of the coral atolls, from the storm-tossed green Atlantic coastline to the black depths of…...

Hot off the premiere of “Planet Earth II,” BBC America is returning to the oceans for its next epic nature series.

The cable network announced Sunday that it will air “Blue Planet II,” which also comes from the BBC Natural History Unit. The seven-part nature series will explore the world’s oceans, and will be presented by broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough.

“I am truly thrilled to be joining this new exploration of the underwater worlds which cover most of our planet, yet are still its least known,” Attenborough said in a statement.

Read More: ‘Planet Earth II’ Review: A Revival With Greater Purpose Than Meets the Eye

“Blue Planet II” will serve as a sequel to “The Blue Planet,” which was broadcast in 2001 and also featured Attenborough’s narration.

“Like ‘Planet Earth II,’ this is a remarkable and relevant sequel – this time plunging us into an awe inspiring...

Consider this pair of trailers a yin-yang situation — speaking for their focuses and scale of production, and hopefully not at all of quality. Entering a limited release this month is A Space Program, a title described by one (very positive) review as a “mockumentary / performance piece [that’s] sci-fi by way of Wes Anderson.” The cinematic condensing of Van Neistat and Tom Sachs‘ New York installation earned some good buzz upon hitting SXSW last year, and its trailer (via Apple) does a fine job of raising questions as to where, exactly, the line between reality and presentation rests.

Also entering a limited release this spring, albeit on a much bigger scale (ar ar ar), is A Beautiful Planet, the IMAX-presented, Jennifer Lawrence-narrated documentary that looks upon the earth with footage captured by the International Space Station. It might turn out to be little more than space porn — but if seen in an optimal IMAX 3D presentation,...

Square Enix announced today that the direct sequel toFinal Fantasy IV,Final Fantasy IV: The After Yearshas been undergone a full 3D makeover for its official release on Steam!

The sequel is set two decades after the events of Final Fantasy IV and focuses on the arrival of the “second moon.” By itself Final Fantasy IV: The After Years will be $15.99, or bundled together with its predecessor for $22.99.

The game was originally released in 2008 for mobile phones, but has now undergone a full 3D makeover, with a new opening movie by Visual Works and a number of Steam Achievements.

Key Features of the game include:

Ten Playable Stories – Begin your journey with “Cecordore’s Tale.” Complete it to unlock the chapters of six additional characters, which can be played in any order, and then return to the core story with “Karin’s Tale,” “Lunarian’s Tale,” and “The Crystals.” Active...

The geniuses behind Planet Earth, Blue Planet, and Frozen Planet are coming back with an eight-part series called Our Planet for Netflix. The production company Silverback Films said it would be shooting the series in ultra-high-def. "Our Planet is going to raise the bar for natural history landmarks," said producer Alastair Fothergill. "We will reveal the most amazing sights on Earth and show them in ways they have never been seen before." The bad news is that the series won't premiere until 2019. (Nature documentaries take a long time!) For you, the major difference will be that you'll use a vape this time around.

Netflix continues to round out its slate of original non-fiction programming, this time with one of its biggest documentary projects yet. The streaming video service has ordered the eight-part nature docu-series Our Planet from the creators of BBC’s Planet Earth.

Filmed in Ultra HD 4K, Our Planet will explore remote parts of world and feature rare animals almost never seen by human eyes. The series will be produced by Silverback Films, with Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey leading the project. The filmmaking duo previously developed the documentaries Planet Earth, Blue Planet, and Frozen Planet for BBC, which later aired in the U.S. on the Discovery Channel.

Additionally, wildlife conservation organization WWF will assist in the creation of Netflix’s Our Planet series. WWF will provide the Silverback team access to protected habitats for filming purposes. The organization will also work with the production company to develop Our Planet-inspired multimedia content for various platforms.

Netflix has ordered "Our Planet," an eight-part nature documentary exploring remote wilderness areas across the globe.

Its biggest documentary project to date, the project comes from the creators of the "Planet Earth," "Frozen Planet" and "Blue Planet" series and the various Disneynature films.

The series will be a four-year collaboration with Silverback Films and conservation group WWF and is to be shot in Ultra HD 4K format. WWF will provide the Silverback team access to its projects in protected areas around the world.

The aim is to present never-before-filmed settings featuring some of the world's rarest animals and most precious natural habitats.

The series is scheduled to premiere across all Netflix territories in 2019.

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When Planet Earth first screened on the BBC back in 2006, audiences were transfixed. Offering unprecedented access to some of the world’s most elusive animals and wildlife, the documentary irrefutably raised the bar for the genre of nature documentaries and its lofty production values still set the precedent years later.

Almost a decade on, though, and it seems Netflix is hoping to emulate on its success with the eight-part natural history series Our Planet, which has been described by producers as the largest project of its kind ever attempted, projecting content from the four corners of the world in 4K resolution. Due to film over the course of four years, the online giant stated that it plans to have the series available to stream by 2019.

Silverback Films are involved in bringing Our Planet to existence, with Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey spearheading the nature documentary behind the cameras. Given that...

Netflix has teamed up with WWF to produce a follow-up to the BBC's groundbreaking Planet Earth series.

Our Planet will be an eight-part documentary series that will premiere in 2019 in collaboration with Silverback Films.

The natural history series will come from the creators of the critically-acclaimed Planet Earth, which aired on BBC One in the UK and Discovery in the Us in 2006.

The four-year project will focus on never-before-filmed wilderness areas and its animal inhabitants, including ice caps, deep oceans, deserts and remote forests, and will use the latest in 4K camera technology.

It will be led by Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey, who created Planet Earth, Frozen Planet and Blue Planet for the BBC, as well as the Disneynature films Earth, Bears, African Cats and Chimpanzee.

"Netflix is proud to be the global home for perhaps Silverback's most ambitious project to date," said Lisa Nishimura, Vice President of Netflix Original Documentaries.

Japanese director Takashi Miike brought the world premiere of his latest blood fest, As the Gods Will, to the Rome Film Festival, where he was honored with the Maverick Director Award Saturday Night. The director is a regular at the festival, having previously screened The Lesson of the Evil in 2012 and both The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji and Blue Planet Brothers in 2013. As the Gods Will, based on a popular manga, blends heavy doses of comedy and fear in a high school setting. An evil animated Daruma doll interrupts the everyday humdrum of the school classroom, forcing the students to play

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Regardless of what the studios are putting out, the movie poster is a booming art form these days, and a lot of artists call their work minimalist. Some are, some are less so, but it’s an interesting design exercise, paring a movie down to its most basic elements and making a compelling and recognizable image of it. Taking things about 10,000 steps further is Spanish design firm Atipo. Their series of miniature ultra-minimalist movie posters is so stripped down you may not know what film the poster is “advertising” unless you’ve already seen it. The 15 pieces in Papers for Characters consist of a sheet (or two) of paper of varying weight/color/texture that has been manipulated or altered by hand. It was created to promote a “paper gallery” website for minke. Look through and see if you can guess...

Earth Day, the perfect occasion for you to kick up your feet, sit on the couch, and watch some movies. Okay, so this may not be the traditional way to celebrate the day, but it is something good to do after a day of volunteering — or a day of thinking about volunteering.

The first Earth Day was April 22, 1970, and has been celebrated each April 22 since then. It’s a day to honor the Earth, to help the Earth, to think about the Earth. Lots of Earth. Now’s a tricky time for this lovely ol’ planet though, with global warming...

Amazon's week long deals for 2013 Black Friday and Cyber Monday continue today, Wednesday, November 27, with a new schedule of DVDs and Blu-rays going on sale today and they are starting early. The deals throughout the day begin just after midnight today and there are a few titles worthy of your attention. If I had to select one title from the batch of deals going live today it would certainly be the Planet of the Apes Blu-ray collection, beyond that the Schindler's List Blu-ray is worth considering and, if you're looking for a nice little quadruple feature you can't really go wrong with picking up the Atonement, Pride & Prejudice, Jane Eyre and Elizabeth bundle, the price isn't yet available, but I have to assume it won't break the bank. Finally, that Best of Warner Bros. Romance Collection at 12:20 Pm might be worth a look as it includes some greats such...

Fantastic news for all fans of Japanese cinema! The competition line-up for this year's Rome Film Festival (November 8-17 2013) features official world premieres of the latest films directed by the country's two major directors, Kurosawa Kiyoshi's Seventh Code (Sebunsu Kodo) and Miike Takashi's The Mole Song - Undercover Agent Reiji (Mogura No Uta). Apart from that, screening as a part of Special Events in the Out of Competition section is another Miike picture, Blue Planet Brothers (Chikyu Kyodai). There's also an impressive number of international premieres, including Spike Jonze's Her, Fedor Bondarchuk's Stalingrad 3D, Scott Cooper's Out of the Furnace and an exclusive festival premiere of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.Check out the full Competition line-up:World premiereANOTHER Me - Isabel Coixet, Spain, United Kingdom, 2013, 86' Cast:...

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BBC Worldwide North America and Hulu announced this morning a multi-year deal that will allow the streaming television provider the rights to over 20 top U.K. programs, several of which will be available today to all Hulu Plus subscribers. There will also be a select number of BBC Worldwide library programs available through the free Hulu.com service on a rotating basis, though these titles have not yet been announced. Among the titles now available on Hulu Plus are Doctor Who, its spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures, Torchwood, and documentary programs Blue Planet and Richard Hammond’s Crash Course, among others. More...

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It's not unusual for games to be cancelled before release, and some of them could have been great. Here's a pick of 25 promising examples...

Earlier this week, news emerged that Sega Studios Australia had pitched an idea to its parent company called Sega Reborn. These games would have revived some of Sega's classic names from the 80s and 90s - Golden Axe, Altered Beast, Streets Of Rage and Shinobi - and created new games around them, mixing tried-and-tested gameplay with high-res graphics and new ideas. The studio even put together a proof-of-concept video, which gave a rough idea of what a 21st century Golden Axe might look like.

For unknown reasons, Sega decided to pass on the idea, and Sega Studios Australia is set to close later this year - fittingly, perhaps, its last release will be a remake of Castle Of Illusion,...

This summer director J.J. Abrams takes Star Trek Into Darkness as the young officers of The U.S.S. Enterprise set course for their most epic journey yet. Abrams reunites with the team that created the fun, the humor, and the spirit of 2009’s acclaimed hit reboot of the beloved franchise. On this second voyage, they’ve amped the action, raised the emotional stakes and launched the Enterprise into a high-wire, life-or-death game of chess with an unstoppable force of destruction. With everything the men and women of The Enterprise believe on the line, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn and sacrifices must be made for the only family Captain Kirk has left: the crew he commands.

It begins with a homecoming, as The Enterprise returns to earth in the wake of a controversial galactic incident, its brash Captain still itching to head back into the stars on...

★★★☆☆ In the ever-watchable Chimpanzee (2012), Blue Planet producers Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield transport us to the Ivorian rainforests of Taï National Park, where we are introduced to three-month-old Oscar - a cheeky ape who gains an unexpected ally when he's faced with more than his fair share of troubles from a rival group of chimps. As is to be expected from a Disney Nature-backed documentary, the tone is light throughout as we witness the daily trials and tribulations of life below the canopy. The level is set (and kept) at 'pleasingly chirpy', with a heavy injection of anthropomorphism given to the travailing troop.

American actor Tim Allen's merry, if at times rather corny narration keeps this rather short, feature-length tale chortling along, referring to the oldest chimpanzee as 'Grandpa' and crowbarring in jokes seemingly swiped from his 1990s TV show Home Improvement. At times, this approach results in...

IMAX and The Walt Disney Studios, a division of The Walt Disney Company today announced an agreement to produce and distribute the latest IMAX® 3D cinematic space spectacle from acclaimed filmmaker Toni Myers, who has been crafting mind-blowing movie experiences for IMAX audiences for more than 40 years.

This marks the first time IMAX and The Walt Disney Studios are jointly producing a film together. The companies have previously collaborated on the distribution of numerous films from the groundbreaking release of Fantasia 2000 to the recent successful opening of Oz The Great and Powerful.

Myers’ upcoming 3D film, which is still untitled, will use IMAX’s extremely high-resolution photography and videography to offer breathtaking, illuminating views of our home planet from space, exploring the astonishing changes that have occurred on Earth in just the past several decades.

Made in cooperation with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa), the film will...

BBC Worldwide announces a limited engagement run of documentary "One Life," narrated by Daniel Craig. From the creators of "Earth: the Movie," the fifth highest-grossing documentary to date, the film follows the spectrum of the human journey from birth until the "delivery of the next generation." The documentary is helmed by Michael Gunton ("Earth") and Martha Holmes ("Blue Planet") of the BBC Natural History unit. It marks the first non-fiction film for which actor Craig has lent his voice, and will be in the mold of David Attenborough's famous "Blue Planet" narration. Craig stated: “For the filmmakers who spend their entire lives recording beautiful images of planet earth’s dwindling wildlife, I have only a sense of awe and a deep rooted respect. I am incredibly fortunate to have been given the chance to play a very small part in that process." The film will premiere on more than...

There's only place on the planet left to discover, according to Sir David Attenborough.

"The ultra depths of the ocean is the last frontier," explains the veteran broadcaster. "There's nothing else we can't do - it's the only missing piece of the jigsaw, which I quite like. But I thoroughly expect we'll get down there one of these days."

And yes, he should know, after spending six decades bringing the most remote spots of the earth and its disarming inhabitants to our screens.

Although everybody immediately thinks of the gorillas as one of his most glorious television moments, Attenborough himself won't be called on a favourite - "too many to mention" - and reveals equal delight at the technical challenges he's overseen along the way, including making BBC2 the first British channel to transmit in colour, and the study of nature, first in digital film and, more recently, in 3D.

Life of Pi Directed by: Ang Lee Written by: David Magee (screenplay) and Yann Martel Starring: Suraj Sharma, Rafe Spall and Irrfan Khan I rarely insist that a movie be seen on the big screen, but if you are going to watch Life of Pi, that’s the only place to do so. Director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) has produced a visual fete; effortlessly blending CGI, live action and 3D into an epic tale of a man (and a tiger) lost at sea. However, the visuals are by far the most compelling reason to see the film. I found the narrative frustrating, especially the ending, and the film suffers from some pacing issues after the hero has been out at sea for some time. Pi is couched as being a spiritually enlightening film, but it seemed more a case of the emperor having no clothes. I...

Steven Spielberg’s epic masterpiece ‘Jaws’ is out today on Blu-ray in all its amazing remastered glory and to mark the occasion, I took one for the team here at HeyUGuys to go up to Chester (to the Blue Planet Aquarium) and take the opportunity to go swimming with sharks for the day!

Armed with nothing but a wetsuit to protect me, I went through an intense training regime to make sure that I have what it takes to survive against these amazing creatures. In the end, all I did was show them my video of me becoming a spy for the day and that was enough to show them how ‘ard I was! After going through he various checks to confirm that if I die, it was no-one’s fault but my own, we went through a course which talked us through what it would be like scuba diving...

This week's announcement that Olivier Père, former programmer of Cannes's Directors' Fortnight, will be stepping down from his post at the helm of the Festival del Film Locarno marks the end of brief but important era for this film festival, one of the longest-running in the world. In just three years, Père has helped to put the annual event back on the festival map, drawing an annual influx of celebrities and industry-types for red-carpet world premieres, jury prizes, and lifetime achievement awards. Perhaps more than ever in its sixty-six-year history, Locarno is an important station on the fall festival circuit, forecasting the slates of Toronto and New York and providing useful international gateway for cinema from all over the world.

This year's festival featured a characteristically dizzying mix of international festival ephemera, an Otto Preminger retrospective, and much-heralded appearances by the likes of Kylie Minogue, Alain Delon, and Harry Belafonte on the festival's main stage,...

If you’re not heading to the San Diego Comic-Con this week and still want to take part in The Walking Dead #100 celebration, there will be a number of midnight release parties taking place tonight at various comic book shops across North America. Skybound has posted an updated list of participating locations and we have it for you to check out.

If your local comic book store is not on the list, we suggest contacting them to see if they are getting involved. As part of our celebration, we’ve given away The Walking Dead #100 prize pack and tickets to The Walking Dead Escape: San Diego. We’ll also have exclusive coverage and maybe a contest or two from the San Diego Comic-Con later this week.

The Walking Dead #100 will be released with multiple variant covers, featuring artwork from Charlie Adlard, Marc Silvestri, Frank Quitely, Todd McFarlane, Sean Phillips, Bryan Hitch and Ryan Ottley.

African Cats is latest entry in Disney’s somewhat half-hearted attempt to re-establish their line of nature documentaries. From 1948 to 1960 Disney churned out a whole host of animal-based shorts and features for their True-Life Adventures imprint, most famously throwing a load of lemmings off a cliff to continue the myths about their mass suicides. Obviously influenced by the success of March Of The Penguins, 2008′s flamingo flick Crimson Wing was pretty well received, but subsequent films Earth and Oceans have hardly set the world on fire.

From the very on-the-nose title, you can probably guess that this instalment focus on the African savannah, following a pride of lions and a family of cheetahs. It’s narrated with typical bombast from Professor X himself, Patrick Stewart, who notably has replaced Samuel L Jackson for the UK release (the press notes rather sloppily still had a bio of Jackson in them...

The arrival of any Attenborough narrated, epic BBC Natural History unit documentary is cause for celebration. The small elements are like Pavlovian cues for any fan of these films, leaving us drooling over the sans-serif font (Helvetica Narrow? Century Schoolbook Gothic?), the massive panorama shots, the endless pullback zooms, all tied to the series that I first encountered with the astonishing Blue Planet, and continued with series such as Planet Earth and Life.While the Discovery channel in the Us has found it better to create truncated versions of these films using more accessible narration (Alec Baldwin did this particular work), the king of all nature commentary remains Sir David Attenborough. We see him at the outset, bundled up in a bright red parka while standing...

Dude. It’s 4:20pm… on 4/20. Are you as hungry as I am?

After getting all your afternoon snacks in order, consider celebrating this auspicious day with one (or more) of these, er, green-friendly streaming picks. Each one can be viewed from the comfort of your own couch — though you might want to pull out a fan before you start watching. Otherwise, certain hazy elements might make it tough to see your computer screen.

Marley

As of today, this 144-minute documentary about the reggae legend is officially available On Demand, on iTunes, and streaming on Facebook. When we asked a...

Hollyoaks band Daytona Lights are to make another appearance on the soap. The real-life group, who were written into the Channel 4 show for a three-month stint last year, recently filmed scenes at the Blue Planet Aquarium in Cheshire alongside members of the Hollyoaks cast. Reports suggest that the five-piece performed a set in front of the aquarium's giant underwater window for an episode which will air later this year. Savage family actors Danny Mac (Dodger), Abi Phillips (Liberty) and Joe Tracini (Dennis) were among the regulars involved in the filming. Blue Planet spokesperson Rebecca Wade told the Ellesmere Port Pioneer: "Obviously we're not (more)...

There is a strange thing afoot at Discovery Networks. One of their offshoot child networks, TLC, is bringing a ridiculous shock finale of a woman who bathes in urine to reality docuseries My Strange Addiction. Then the wiser parent Discovery channel brings the sublime: Frozen Planet, this Sunday, March 18. Alastair Fothergill produced the stunning "Planet Earth,""Blue Planet" and here he is executive producer of "Frozen Planet," a Discovery Channel/BBC co-production that takes us North and South, to the Arctic and Antarctica. One a continent surrounded by ice and ocean, the other an ocean surrounded by continents. You will marvel at the seven breathtaking episodes premiering Sunday with the first two...

Producer Andrew Wight (right), best known for his collaboration with James Cameron on Sanctum, and cinematographer Mike deGruy, among whose credits is the documentary Deep Blue, have died earlier today as their helicopter crashed while taking off from an airstrip south of Berry in New South Wales, Australia. Wight, from the Australian state of Victoria, was 51; deGruy, from Santa Barbara, California, was 60. According to the Melbourne Herald Sun, they were scouting locations for a a documentary at Jervis Bay, Nsw. Avatar and Titanic's James Cameron was reportedly involved in the project as well. In addition to various Adventures of the Quest programs for Australian television and other TV fare (e.g., Last Mysteries of the Titanic), Andrew Wight produced a couple of features: the aforementioned Sanctum, for which James Cameron received credit as co-producer, and Aliens of the Deep, a 2005 documentary co-directed by Cameron and Steven Quale. Purportedly based...

Five wildlife film-makers nominate their favourite living artist in their field

Alan Root on Mark Deeble and Victoria Stone

Mark Deeble and Victoria Stone have produced an unbroken string of great wildlife films, notable for the variety of creatures depicted, the strange behaviours captured, and the stunning photography – but most of all for the quality of the storytelling. Giant crocodiles stalk their prey; hippos open their mouths to have their teeth cleaned by schools of fish; tiny wasps hatch into the extraordinary world hidden inside a fig; a fish opens her mouth to release tiny fry, not realising she has been cuckolded, and they are someone else's young. They have brought so many new, extraordinary sequences to the screen, all of them woven into deeply satisfying stories. And that, for me, is the raison d'etre for film-making.

Alan Root's 1978 film about termites, Mysterious Castles of Clay, was nominated for an Oscar.