The Green Planet

Synopsis

This documentary series about plants is the first immersive portrayal of an unseen, inter-connected world, full of remarkable new behaviour, emotional stories and surprising heroes in the plant world. Planet Earth from the perspective of plants.

First Air Date: 2022-01-09

Last Air Date: 2022-02-06

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 5

Networks: BBC One

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Top Cast

David Attenborough as Self - Narrator (voice)

Seasons

Season 1 (2022)

No overview available for this season.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Tropical Worlds (2022-01-09)

Tropical rainforests are plant battlegrounds. New filming techniques allow us to enter the world of plants to see it from their perspective and on their timescale.
Ep. 2: Water Worlds (2022-01-16)

Water plants create beautiful, bizarre worlds. Flowers smother rivers and lakes. Plants fight and hunt. A river bubbles like champagne as plants create the atmosphere itself.
Ep. 3: Seasonal Worlds (2022-01-23)

Plants of the seasonal world face constant change. They use use strategy, deception and feats of engineering to survive. Most importantly, they must get their timing right.
Ep. 4: Desert Worlds (2022-01-30)

Desert plants spend decades in suspended animation waiting for rain, or they travel to find it. They survive using weapons, camouflage and surprising alliances with animals.
Ep. 5: Human Worlds (2022-02-06)

Two out of five wild plants are threatened with extinction. Today people are finding remarkable ways to help them, and so make our world a little greener and a little wilder.