Saving Planet Earth
British TV series or programme / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Saving Planet Earth is a season of nature documentaries with a conservation theme, screened on BBC Television in 2007 to mark the 50th anniversary of its specialist factual department, the BBC Natural History Unit.
Saving Planet Earth | |
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Genre | Nature documentary Telethon |
Presented by | See episodes for detail |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | 11 |
Production | |
Executive producer | Sara Ford |
Producers | Paul Appleby Lucy Bowden |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Production company | BBC Natural History Unit |
Original release | |
Network | BBC One BBC Two CBBC |
Release | 24 June (2007-06-24) – 6 July 2007 (2007-07-06) |
The series featured films contributed by a number of celebrities on the plight of various endangered species, and coincided with the launch of the BBC Wildlife Fund, a charitable organisation which distributes money to conservation projects around the world. The television series culminated in a live fundraising telethon on BBC Two, hosted by Alan Titchmarsh, which raised over £1 million for the charity.
The BBC broadcast a second live telethon in 2010. Wild Night In was presented by Kate Humble, Chris Packham and Martin Hughes-Games and featured conservation projects which had benefited from the support of the BBC Wildlife Fund.