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Earth review: BBC tells terrifying story of our planet’s Great Dying

Earth review: BBC tells terrifying story of our planet’s Great Dying

9 July 2023

This epic TV series kicks off with Inferno, the story of our planet’s biggest mass extinction. Host Chris Packham probes how Earth lost up to 90 per cent of its species in an event which began 252 million years ago


Prehistoric Planet 2 review: Attenborough returns to ancient Earth

Prehistoric Planet 2 review: Attenborough returns to ancient Earth

14 May 2023

The second series of this show about Earth 66 million years ago is a joy to watch - but it inspires more than it informs. A little more science would have been nice


The Peripheral review: William Gibson’s noir debuts on Amazon Prime

The Peripheral review: William Gibson’s noir debuts on Amazon Prime

20 October 2022

In 2032, tech savvy Flynne Fisher helps her brother with a virtual reality game and ends up in a disturbing London 60 years later. William Gibson’s 2014 sci-fi thriller The Peripheral is so stuffed with ideas it will need seasons to unpack


The Elon Musk Show review: Searching for the man who is Elon Musk

The Elon Musk Show review: Searching for the man who is Elon Musk

13 October 2022

As Elon Musk becomes wealthier and more powerful, we need to know more about the man whose projects are transforming the world. But as a new documentary shows, it is hard grappling with the reality of someone with such disparate labels as hero, villain,...


Ancient footprints in New Mexico’s White Sands National Park.

Ice Age Footprints review: Ancient humans’ arrival in North America

23 May 2022

This documentary tracks the quest for the oldest human footprints in North America, and what they can tell us about when people first arrived on the continent


Prehistoric Planet

Prehistoric Planet review: David Attenborough’s dinosaur magic

20 May 2022

David Attenborough and Hollywood talent combine in Prehistoric Planet documentary to conjure up dinosaurs as never before


David Attenborough

Dinosaurs: The Final Day with David Attenborough review

15 April 2022

David Attenborough joins palaeontologist Robert DePalma at the Tanis site in North Dakota as he unearths the story of the dinosaurs’ death in this thrilling documentary


David Attenborough pictured in the Maasai Mara, Kenya

Breaking Boundaries review: Attenborough on climate change facts

2 June 2021

Netflix documentary Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet is a deep-dive into the nine natural processes upon which all life on Earth depends, featuring David Attenborough and Johan Rockström


Gus (Christian Convery) in Sweet Tooth

Sweet Tooth Review: An eccentric mix of sci-fi and fantasy

1 June 2021

Netflix’s Sweet Tooth is a hopeful take on coping with the fall-out of a deadly pandemic, set in a world featuring human-animal hybrids


Tula (Sharon Duncan-Brewster) with Cady (Eleanor Tomlinson, left) and Genevieve (Diany Samba-Bandza, right) in Intergalactic

Intergalactic review: A promising prison-break drama set in 2143

21 April 2021

Intergalactic, a new show on Sky and streaming service NOW, follows a group who commandeer a spaceship to avoid prison. It's packed with plot and has the potential to be an exciting series


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