Life in Colour (miniseries)

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Life in Colour
Also known as
  • Attenborough's Life in Colour
  • David Attenborough's Life in Colour
  • Life in Colour with David Attenborough
GenreDocumentary
Written by
  • Sally Thomson
  • Nick Green
  • Bridget Appleby
  • Sharmila Choudhury
  • Stephen Dunleavy
  • Adam Geiger
Directed by
  • Sally Thomson
  • Nick Green
  • Bridget Appleby
  • Sharmila Choudhury
  • Adam Geiger
Narrated byDavid Attenborough
ComposerJames Dorman
Country of origin
  • United Kingdom
  • Australia
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes3
Production
Executive producers
  • Stephen Dunleavy
  • Colette Beaudry
Producers
  • Sharmila Choudhury
  • (Series Producer)
  • Rachel Higgins
  • Carolyn Johnson
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running time50 minutes
Production companies
  • Humble Bee Films
  • Sealight Pictures
Original release
NetworkBBC One
Release28 February (2021-02-28) –
22 April 2021 (2021-04-22)

Life in Colour[a] is a 2021 British-Australian nature documentary television miniseries presented and narrated by David Attenborough.[1] It consists of three episodes.

Production

The series was co-produced by Humble Bee Films and Sealight Pictures for Netflix, the BBC, Stan, and the Nine Network.[2][3] Sharmila Choudhury served as series producer, with Stephen Dunleavy and Colette Beaudry as Executive Producers.[4][5] It was originally envisaged as having four episodes, but this was scaled back to three due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[6]

The first episode of Life in Colour aired on 28 February 2021 on BBC One[7] and on 3 July 2021 on Nine Network in Australia.[3]

Episodes

Viewing data sourced from

BARB.[8]

No.TitleProduced byOriginal air dateUK viewers
(millions)
1"Seeing in Colour"Sally Thomson28 February 2021 (2021-02-28)5.70
A male
Peacock mantis shrimps can perceive color faster than any other animal due to having more color receptors, and can also distinguish between polarized and unpolarized light, allowing them to signal mates and warn rivals with scales that reflect polarized light. Andean flamingos perform courtship dances in the Atacama Desert and obtain pink pigments from carotenoids in the algae and shrimp they eat. Strawberry poison-dart frogs
obtain their bright warning coloration from the food they eat, show extensive color variation across their range due to differing diets, and fight intruding rival frogs.
2"Hiding in Colour"Nick Green7 March 2021 (2021-03-07)5.38
3"Chasing Colour"Bridget Appleby22 April 2021 (2021-04-22)N/A

Reception

The Hindu's Aswathi Pacha praised the series, noting Attenborough's enthusiasm.[9] Common Sense Media gave the series four out of five stars.[10] Yvonne Bohwongprasert's review for the Bangkok Post was generally positive, but criticised the film for failing to mention the "ongoing climate crisis".[11]

Notes

  1. ^ Also known as Attenborough's Life in Colour and Life in Colour with David Attenborough.

References

  1. ^ Kanter, Jake (4 March 2021). "How Producers Of 'Attenborough's Life In Colour' Overcame A Covid-Ravaged Shoot To Deliver Early For The BBC & Netflix". Deadline. Archived from the original on 27 April 2021. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  2. ^ Kanter, Jake (27 September 2019). "Netflix & BBC Team Up For Natural History First With David Attenborough Series 'Life In Colour'". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on 18 December 2019. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
  3. ^ a b Knox, David (28 June 2021). "Airdate: David Attenborough's Life in Colour". TV Tonight. TV Tonight. Archived from the original on 28 June 2021. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  4. ^ "Attenborough's Life in Colour – Hiding in Colour". BBC iPlayer. BBC. 7 March 2021. Archived from the original on 13 March 2021. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  5. ^ "David Attenborough's Life in Colour". Screen Australia. Archived from the original on 3 July 2021. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  6. ^ Kanter, Jake (4 March 2021). "How Producers Of 'Attenborough's Life In Colour' Overcame A Covid-Ravaged Shoot To Deliver Early For The BBC & Netflix". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on 27 April 2021. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
  7. ISSN 0033-8060. Archived
    from the original on 28 February 2021. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
  8. ^ "Four-screen dashboard - BARB".
  9. ^ Pacha, Aswathi (24 April 2021). "'Life in Color' review: David Attenborough makes us marvel at the world yet again". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 27 April 2021. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
  10. ^ Brown, Marty (2021). "Life in Color with David Attenborough". Common Sense Media. Archived from the original on 10 June 2021. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
  11. ^ Bohwongprasert, Yvonne (7 May 2021). "Attenborough explains all". Bangkok Post. Archived from the original on 2 July 2021. Retrieved 2 July 2021.

External links

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