Life on BBC Knowledge (DStv 251) starting today at 19:30 (and continuing daily in the same timeslot) is a rapturous and simply breathtaking and visually astounding documentary series in 10 episodes that looks at life on Earth in all its varied forms.
Produced by the BBC's natural history unit in association with Discovery, Life takes an epic global view of the myriad forms of life on our world, shot over 4 years and 3 000 days making use of cutting-edge cinematic techniques to bring to television unprecedented, astonishingly beautiful sequences like birds running and dancing on the water's surface and fish outwitting predators by using their fins to take flight.
The first episode of Life gives a general overview on life, with the second episode looking at the plant kingdom, and further episodes dedicated to specific animal groupings like mammals, fish, insects, ''the hunted and the hunters'', primates and creatures of the deep. The narrator is of course David Attenborough. Life is beautiful; lovingly produced, and brings to television the highest standard of production that the medium is capable of. Life doesn't need to be watched; it demands it. And belongs on your DStv PVR.
