Thai viewers will kick off the New Year in the most inspiring and educational way thanks to the premiere of the first two episodes of BBC's newest documentary, A Perfect Planet, which will air back-to-back on Jan 11 at 7pm in Thailand. This will create an epic two-hour launch event on BBC Earth (TrueVisions Channel 568 and 3BB Channel 503).
Narrated by the esteemed Sir David Attenborough, the documentary series explores Earth's power as well as its fragility to sustain life and in the process showcases cutting-edge cinematography, environmental storytelling -- intimate and grand -- and the timeless narration of Sir David whose 70 years' experience on-air makes him the world's favourite natural historian.
This five-part series will show how the forces of nature -- weather, ocean currents, solar energy and volcanoes -- drive, shape and support Earth's great diversity of life. In doing so, it will also reveal how animals are perfectly adapted to whatever the environment throws at them.
The bumper launch event will feature Episode One: Volcanoes and Episode Two: The Sun, with subsequent episodes broadcasting later.
This truly global series was filmed in 31 countries, including national parks and seas in Thailand, Vietnam, China and Indonesia. Over the course of five episodes, take a tour through some of Asia's most iconic natural habitats and see them in a new light, including The Queen Sirikit Botanical Gardens, Thailand; Cat Tien National Park, Vietnam; Shennongjia National Park, China; the Gulf of Thailand; Lembeh, Indonesia; and the Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
The shooting took place over 1,113 days, accumulating more than 3,000 hours of original footage. Also, look out for the diversity of Asia's native species in every episode as they adapt to the sun, weather, volcanoes, oceans and humanity in their own ingenious ways, including the golden snub-nose monkeys in China; the flamboyant cuttlefish in Lembeh, Indonesia; Bryde's whales and fig wasps in Thailand; gibbons in Vietnam; and camels in Mongolia.
Episode Three: Weather will air on Jan 18, Episode Four: Oceans on Jan 25, and the last episode Humans on Feb 1, all at 7pm.
