Discovery Channel To Cut Climate Change Episode From Groundbreaking Series

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"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.'"

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201111160005

[Merlot]

1. Maybe we all contact discovery channel

[MountainLaurel]

2. Cutting Sir David?!!

They are dead to me.

[Nihil]

3. "scheduling issue" = "moronic advertisers would object"

> the Discovery Channel will not air the climate change episode
> of Frozen Planet in the U.S. due to a "scheduling issue".

Tossers.
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