Nat Geo’s ‘Hostile Planet’ Provides a Message of Hope for Earth Day
It’s clear by the title alone that it is not your grandparents’ nature show. National Geographic Channel’s “Hostile Planet” takes a unique point of view – one from the perspective of the animals it chronicles, from a stealthy snow leopard to a massive orca, tiny turtles and an Arctic wolf, to get viewers hooked on their plights. And when the stars of the show are not human and you can’t rely on a script, you never know what might...
From ‘Divorce’ to ‘Berlin Station’ to ‘Mars,’ A Preview of Cable’s Most Buzzworthy Shows
It’s inevitable that there will be some verbal fireworks mixed in with the vast slate of programming presented at the cable portion of the TCA summer press tour held at the Beverly Hilton. Last year, there was a media-manufactured showdown between Michael Lombardo and Chris Albrecht over the similarities of HBO’s “Ballers” and Starz’ “Survivor’s Remorse,” with Albrecht conclusively admonishing the assembled television journalists to...
Science Goes Hollywood in National Geographic Channel ‘Breakthrough’
Ron Howard. Brett Ratner. Akiva Goldsman. These names of these major Hollywood players are not normally associated with documentaries about science. But all three, along with Peter Berg and actors Angela Bassett and Paul Giamatti have each directed an episode of an upcoming docu-series, “Breakthrough.” The six-part series examines scientific innovations on a number of fronts including advances in aging, brain chemistry, alternative...
Documentary Sheds New Light on the Story of Anne Frank
It is the most well-known personal story to come out of the Holocaust, the journey of young Anne Frank, her family and friends who hid from the Nazis for more than two years before they were betrayed and discovered in their hiding place in Amsterdam and sent to concentration camps. Much of the story was of course documented by a teenaged Anne in her iconic diary, which was rescued and later published worldwide by her father, Otto, the...
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