For viewers who remember sitting through the BBC’s 11-part 2006 nature documentary series “Planet Earth” and its six-episode 2016 sequel “Planet Earth II,” it certainly didn’t come as a surprise for the franchise to make it to the list of 100 best TV shows of the 21st century, released by The Guardian in 2019. As if proving it was no fluke, it’s also been ranked No. 3 in IMDb’s top 250 TV shows as of 2023. The Emmy- and Peabody-winning series hosted by David Attenborough isn’t just groundbreaking for the epic-scale technological innovations it utilizes to capture a glimpse of the vast but little-known habitats that thrive on land and under the sea, far away from man’s destructive reach.

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