BBC Two - Yellowstone: Wildest Winter to Blazing Summer (1 Viewer)

Telephoto Paul

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• Dec 31, 2016

• #1

Three-parter, fronted by Kate Humble and Patrick Aryee. Patrick impressed me on the current Sky1 monkey series, but I suspect like the recent Polar Bear Live programme, I'll be fast forwarding most of the parts with on-screen presenting.

Starts at 9pm on Tuesday, with the remaining parts following on Wed and Thursday.

 

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delia todd

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• Dec 31, 2016

• #2

Thanks Paul - set to record.

 

ClarkWGriswold

Carpe Carpum

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• Dec 31, 2016

• #3

Cheers Paul.

Rich

 

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Peewit

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• Dec 31, 2016

• #4

Thank you for the reminder Paul.

 

Adey Baker

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• Jan 3, 2017

• #5

Telephoto Paul said:

... but I suspect like the recent Polar Bear Live programme, I'll be fast forwarding most of the parts with on-screen presenting.

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How right you are, sir! What a waste of 75% of the programme (and why do they complain how cold it is when they've got all the layers of their clothing wide open at the neck!)

 

JTweedie

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• Jan 4, 2017

• #6

I was in two minds about it. The original Yellowstone series was very heavily pilfered for this programme - all the glossy, high quality footage was from it. I think also the grouse scenes were from it too (but I'll need to watch it again to be sure) - and if I'm right then I get the feeling that Kate Humble wasn't watching them at all and was acting along to previously recorded footage.

As I was watching it I was wondering if I was learning much new that the original Yellowstone didn't cover. It did in some ways, like explaining bear behaviour, but it was something made just more explicit than what the original Yellowstone series showed in pictures, and from which you could make up your own mind about things.

I was wondering if it was just an excuse to send Humble on a holiday to Yellowstone.

 

Monahawk

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• Jan 5, 2017

• #7

Watchable in a lacklustre sort of way. You could say 'a pass the time' sort of wildlife programme, as there is simply nothing else decent on offer on the box at the same time.

Si

 

Farnboro John

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• Jan 5, 2017

• #8

Glad I've missed it so far. Think I'll stick with the original Yellowstone documentary.

John

 

Telephoto Paul

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• Jan 6, 2017

• #9

Having now had the chance to watch all three episodes, I have to say that far exceeded my expectation and was leagues ahead of Arctic Live. No pretending to get excited about animals that aren't up to much, and for the most part the time spent talking to other experts managed to be more on the interesting rather than boring. It took until the third episode before I used the fast forward; it's a real and important topic but there's only so many times you can stand to listen to Humble repeat " Global. Warming. has. something. something. something. something. months. of. record. temperatures. something. something. animals. struggling. to survive. something. something."

JTweedie said:

I think also the grouse scenes were from it too (but I'll need to watch it again to be sure) - and if I'm right then I get the feeling that Kate Humble wasn't watching them at all and was acting along to previously recorded footage.

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Most likely she was or just had been watching grouse as she recorded that bit, but not the ones that were show. But that's going to be standard practice in nature docs.