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The Blue Planet is a Discovery Channel/BBC Natural History Unit co-produced television series subtitled "A Natural History of the Oceans", comprising eight episodes, narrated by David Attenborough, originally transmitted in September/ October 2001. The project cost about £7 million. Over 12 million people watched the series when it first aired on BBC1 in the UK and it regularly achieved an audience share of over 30%. It has since been sold to over fifty countries. The screening was therapuetic to many, the first episode being broadcast the day after the September 11 Terrorist Attacks.

The underwater photography set new standards, both for its beauty and for never-before-photographed sequences of ocean life. The soundtrack music is by George Fenton. Recently discovered species were shown for the first time, and behavior that had hitherto never been witnessed was captured on film.

The individual episodes are:

# "The Blue Planet" # "Frozen Seas" # "Open Ocean" # "The Deep" # "Seasonal Seas" # "Coral Seas" # "Tidal Seas" # "Coasts"

Each programme was just under 50 minutes, recorded in 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio with stereo sound.

There was an accompanying book.

A theatrical release called Deep Blue was released which consisted entirely of re-edited footage shot for The Blue Planet, accompanied by narration from Michael Gambon.

David Attenborough narrated this series just prior to presenting the next in his 'Life' series of programmes, The Life of Mammals
(2002).

The same production team, led by Alastair Fothergill, went on to produce another major nature documentary series: Planet Earth
(2006).

DVDs

The series is available as a 3-disc DVD set, including three additional programmes:

Making Waves: the making of The Blue Planet (50 mins)
Deep Trouble: an ecological documentary (50 mins)
Blue: a five-minute theatrical short

In addition, there are interviews with the production team and a photo gallery.

A special edition DVD features three new programmes:

The Abyss
Dive To Shark Volcano
Amazon Abyss

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