![]() Night On Earth doesn’t have Attenborough’s voice - it’s narrated by The Handmaid’s Tale actress Samira Wiley - but it has the same kind of grandiose, ground-breaking scope his name is usually attached to. The business side of things is obvious for Netflix, especially since Disney now owns National Geographic - like the David Attenborough-narrated Our Planet, this is a shot across the bow to the streaming giant’s competitors. The moody, evocative effect achieved in Night On Earth feels unique, because it is unique, which is a real feather in the cap of a series looking to stand out in an oversaturated genre. The cameras include new models of low-light devices that film in full colour and with razor-sharp clarity by moonlight, or sometimes, thanks to thermal imaging, in no light at all. Plimsoll Productions ( Hostile Planet) are exploring an obvious concept here - what do animals get up to at night? - but doing it in an indescribably complex way, with new technology that shows how a wide variety of species in vastly different conditions interact and survive after dark. The new six-part docuseries Night On Earth (Netflix) feels, with its ground-breaking camera techniques designed to quite literally shine a light on what happens to wildlife when the sun goes down, like it’s finally peeling back another curtain. There are certain depths we can’t sink to, heights we can’t soar to, behaviors that only occur sneakily when nobody is looking. Just as animals big and small are subject to the increasingly unpredictable whims of climate, season, predators, and whether or not they’d make a decent coat, so too are the extent of their lives subject to the technology and techniques we have to document them. The nature documentary is not a new concept, but it is an ever-evolving one.
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