Madagascar

Madagascar, the fourth largest island on our planet with unique flora and fauna where you won’t find about eighty percent of the species there anywhere else on the Earth. It’s a goldmine for any documentary and especially for David Attenborough and the BBC. It has one drawback; since it is only three episodes long, it never lingers over anything which, in view of how interesting everything filmed/said here, is a crying shame (this applies mainly for the episode Lost Worlds). Otherwise we get everything we are used to from BBC nature documentaries - breathtaking high definition, unique shots, diaries about the pitfalls of filming (which again are no less interesting that the “main feature") and... And I’m sure you’ve seen them before; the format has been the same for years. And it still works and amazes like nothing else, because I think it must be impossible to get tired of them. (28/02/2011)