Planet Earth fans have been left unimpressed after it was revealed that the BBC have been using decade-old footage in their new series, ‘Planet Earth II’.
A recent episode of the hit show, presented by David Attenborough, featured an avalanche in North America, with Attenborough dubbing the footage as: “100,000 tonnes of snow travelling at 80 miles an hour, capable of smashing everything in it’s path.”
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The avalanche footage was teamed with clips of bears emerging from the disaster – but bosses have confirmed that the avalanche was filmed for the first Planet Earth series more than 10 years ago.
Eh? How does that work then?
Executive producer, Mike Gunton, explained: “We don’t ever say that those bears are on the same slope as the avalanche that you just saw. We are saying – generically – that avalanches are a problem.”
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Still, you can understand why some viewers feel a little bit misled, with Attenborough later talking about the bears’ situation in direct response to the avalanche that we were shown, saying: “The debris from an avalanche is clear evidence this slope is still dangerously unstable.
“This is not a place to dawdle.”
The BBC added to The Mirror: “In Natural History programming we sometimes augment sequences with footage originally shot for other productions. We are always conscious of the need to manage budgets carefully.
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“Sharing or re-using footage is one of the ways we ensure the licence fee payer gets the best value for money, and enables us to use our budgets to maximise the amount of truly extraordinary, new animal behaviour and natural phenomena in our series.”
In the words of Oprah, what is the truth?
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