10-03-2023, 05:31 PM
(10-03-2023, 05:12 PM)Larry the Loafer Wrote: If true, the cat has been put well amongst the pigeons...
www.theguardian.com
I was equally outraged by this, but turns out it's rubbish - this supposed 'sixth episode' was never part of the original series, instead it's a video produced by the WWF and RSPB to be released with the TV series. The BBC have since acquired it for iPlayer.
Buried at the bottom of the article (which I didn't read up to either!) is the BBC's response:
BBC Spokesperson Wrote: “Wild Isles consists of five episodes: Our Precious Isles, Woodland, Grassland, Freshwater and Ocean. Saving Our Wild Isles is a separate film inspired by the series that was commissioned by the RSPB and WWF. We’ve acquired it for iPlayer.”
(Source: this tweet by journalist Jake Kanter)
EDIT: Just occurred to me that the story could still stand, if they intended to air it on linear TV despite its not-quite-an-episode status, but even so, the story is a fair bit more nuanced than it first appears.