There are a couple of agendas being hyped here - the left wing BBC should be shut down because it lies about Polar Bears, and there is not such thing as global warming because the BBC lies about Polar Bears.

for its own sake is my take on it.

This was one small sequence in a magnificent series. The complainers would probably be moaning about violation of the polar bear's den had it been filmed up in the Arctic circle.

On top of that Polar Bears are as cuddly and sweet as they look, aren't they? Why, Attenborough should have reenacted his famous scene with the gorillas and lain down beside mummy bear and tickled her tummy!

I thought that almost all wildlife docs recreated occasional shots in the studio.

getting their own back ?

'Cos as Saint Jezza tells us global warming is fake, polar bears are actually blokes in fur suits and penguins don't exist outside of CGI.

They should take the lot out and shoot them in front of their families.

Frozen Planet, and not some brief clip that didn't require bravery, grit and personal discomfort to film, goes onto subscription channels only is the day I stop paying my licence fee.

Personally I'm quite happy to share my bandwidth with people who can't sing or dance, as long as they stick to their channel, and I can keep my BBC2, 3 and 4.

As far as habitual BBC bashers go, I'd take them out and shoot..... etc.

that it was amazing that they could film inside a birthing den in the wild, given that they give birth in the middle of the Northern winter. No surprise that it was tweaked slightly, but shouldn't detract from the general magnificence of the series.

.. also astronomically expensive. Why? because cameramen have to be posted into Arctic regions for months at a time. Every shot of that series was so obsessively good that by the laws of quality control, 95% of it must have hit the cutting room floor.

The interesting thing to me though, is that whenever anyone in this country makes an attempt to do anything well crafted and of any quality, it's always attacked sooner or later. A kind of juvenile national obsession. "This is too damn good! What's the catch? Let's find a chink in the armour". "Little Britain" mentality I like to call it.

with one more comment..Ice Ice Baby

has ben leaked to the Daily Mail

"Who the fuck do these people think they are dealing with here. Some kind of muppet? Don't they know who I am? I didn't get that Sir for sitting on me fat arse in front of the telly moaning. I got out there, with those bloody monkeys and lions and shit. And now they try and mug me off like that? Toilet, the lot of em. I'm gonna do a Richard, take a photo on me phone and send it to the letters page of the Radio Times saying "That realistic enough for yer, you plebs!?' When I'm gone, oo they got left, Titchmarsh? Those dosey Autumnwatch buggers (nice norks on the ginge mind but indie boy Packham can do one)? that Oddie fella? My nutsack could make better TV than them. Give me their names and address, these whining bastards and fetch me shooter. Life On earth? Not when I'm through, pal...."

How anyone remotely interested in wild life docs who doesn’t know that many shoots are obtained through set ups with captive animals is an idiot. I think almost every Attenborough “behind the scenes” show explains how close up work is obtained. Yawn.

in with those who now claim they can't watch Jool Holland's Hootenany (no, wait) cos they previosuly thought it was live.

Its TV, its entertainment. If they sat down and told you how every single thing was done it would be like this

The British Bolshevik Corporation are LYING! About BEARS and about GLOBAL WARMING! They PRETENDED that they they filmed the bears in the wild when they filmed in a WILDLIFE CENTER telling NO ONE AT ALL!

Except that anyone curious about how the BBC got the shots could find out how it was done by looking on Frozen Planet's website where one of the producers gave an interview explaining why it was that they filmed at a wildlife center. This has been online since November 7th.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00m21s4

So the story isn't BBC FAKERY it's actually HEALTH AND SAFETY GONE MAD! Namby pamby BBC cowards avoiding birthing polar bears in the wild...

An awesome series, beautifully filmed and presented. They could have created a lot of this using CGI, but they chose to film stuff as it happened, edit it sensibly, include a tweak here and there and highlight some of the changes that are happening at both poles. There was so much to savour here (the wolves vs oxen sequence was amazing, as was the underwater freezing pillar of salt that killed everything in its path).

An inspiring programme of great quality? Yes.
Am I bothered because they used a bit of artistic licence to help the narrative along? No.
It is going to win a shedload of awards? Almost certainly.

If David Attenbrough had hacked into a murdered polar bear's voicemail messages?