#Blue planet sea of life the deep series#

The series is streaming broadcast at Tencent's QQLive from 30 October 2017, with episodes updating every Monday at 18:00 CST.

In China, the premiere took place at Shanghai's East China Normal University on 27 October 2017, with guest appearance by the producer Orla Doherty and Mike Gunton, the executive producer of Planet Earth II. As for South Africa, it aired from 4 February 2018. In Poland, it premiered on 16 November 2017. In Asia, the series began to premiere on each early Monday (from 04:05 SGT to 05:05 SGT) starting from 30 October 2017, the episode was then repeated on following each Tuesday evening (from 20:00 SGT). The series debuted in Nordic regions and other European countries on 29 October 2017. The series is set to broadcast internationally on BBC Earth channel, and also commercial television channels in various countries, besides. The series was eventually sold to more than 30 countries. The BBC pre-sold the series to several overseas broadcasters, which includes Canada ( Blue Ant Media’s licensed channel for BBC Earth), Australia ( Channel Nine) and New Zealand ( TVNZ), to Europe with Denmark ( DR), Netherlands ( NPO), Sweden ( SVT), Spain ( Telefonica’s BBC Earth block), Discovery Channel for Latin America and co-production partnerships with BBC America, Germany's WDR, France Télévisions, China's Tencent and CCTV-9. The series was critically acclaimed and gained the highest UK viewing figure for 2017, 14.1 million. The previous week's episode was repeated in an earlier time slot the following Sunday. The first six episodes included a 10-minute making-of documentary called Into the Blue. The series was first broadcast on 29 October 2017 (from 20:00 GMT to 21:00 GMT) on BBC One and BBC One HD. Bristol has been the global home of BBC's Natural History programme making for the past 60 years. The premiere of the series took place at Bristol's Cinema de Lux on 11 October 2017, with special guest appearance by Attenborough along with the producers and wildlife experts. Filming took place over a course of more than four years involving 125 expeditions across 39 countries and produced more than 6,000 hours of underwater dive footage from over an estimated 4,000 dives. The series was announced by the BBC in 2013 with the working title Oceans, but the title was later changed to Blue Planet II as was revealed on 19 February 2017, making it a follow-up to the 2001 series The Blue Planet. It was credited with increasing public and political interest in issues affecting marine life, in particular marine plastic pollution, which was dubbed 'the Blue Planet effect'. It had the highest viewing figures of any television programme in the United Kingdom during 2017, and was so widely watched in China that it reportedly caused internet issues. The series received almost universal critical acclaim. In the United States, the series premiered on January 20, 2018, as part of a five-network simulcast on BBC America, AMC, IFC, Sundance, and WE tv.

The series debuted on 29 October 2017 and was simultaneously cast on BBC One, BBC One HD and BBC Earth, making it the first natural history series to premiere on the same day in the United Kingdom, Nordic regions, Europe and in Asia. The musical score was composed by Hans Zimmer, Jacob Shea and David Fleming, and English rock band Radiohead reworked their 2011 song 'Bloom' with Zimmer specifically for the series. Īfter being announced in 2013, filming took four years in 39 countries over more than 125 international trips. Like its predecessor, The Blue Planet (2001), it is narrated and presented by naturalist Sir David Attenborough. Blue Planet II is a 2017 British nature documentary series on marine life produced by the BBC Natural History Unit.

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