Why Is The Discovery Channel Refusing To Air The Climate Change Episode Of A Groundbreaking Series?

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Discovery Channel To Cut Climate Change Episode From Groundbreaking Series

November 16, 2011 8:48 am ET by Jocelyn Fong

For the past few weeks, we've had to wait patiently while our friends across the Atlantic enjoy the BBC's seven-part Frozen Planet series on life at the poles, which won't air in the U.S. until the new year.

This sequel to Blue Planet and Planet Earth -- two of the greatest programs to have ever come through my television -- took four years, dozens of cameramen, 28 helicopters and 2 ice-breaking ships to make. The effort has been described by producer Vanessa Berlowitz as perhaps "our last chance to record these astonishing wildernesses that have existed untouched by humans for millennia and that, within a century, may change beyond recognition."

Series narrator Sir David Attenborough, who has previously been reluctant to discuss the human environmental footprint in his films, spends the final episode "on location, talking to the camera in his own measured words about shrinking glaciers, warming oceans and the threat posed by man-made global warming," according to The Guardian.

But now we learn that after earning "massive ratings" from Planet Earth and collaborating with BBC to produce the sequel, the Discovery Channel will not air the climate change episode of Frozen Planet in the U.S. due to a "scheduling issue."

Now, if it said that the Earth was 6,000 years old and Noah walked with the Dinos, that they would probably show.

:rofl:

.... Moose Country in order to try to help her national image and i would guess that the American Petroleum Institute, "the we love fracking bunch,"
and "the why coal is good for you orgaization" all buy ad time on the Discovery Channel.

I am mean, ain't I?

Don

Discovery is beholden to corporate advertisers

If you need another reason why OWS exists, this is it. Although some Americans may actually be willfully ignorant, the fact is that many more have been brainwashed by corporations who can't afford to face the inconvenient truth.



"What a country!"

There are bittorrents of the BBC broadcasts being released within minutes of their conclusion.

If Discovery was committed to airing this in a timely manner I'd watch their ads with no complaints, but since they're not, they lose. Broadcast networks that behave like this are basically just as doomed as print. Lions in winter.