Posted on 27/07/07
THURSDAY: 7 p.m. to midnight
Planet Earth Newsworld, 10 p.m.Just last weekend, at their annual summer press tour in Los Angeles, the Television Critics Association awarded the stunning BBC-produced portrait of our planet prizes in two categories: best news and information program and best movie, miniseries or special. In Jungles, tonight's program from the ground-breaking documentary series, the astonishing diversity of life - more than half the world's species call the tropical rain forest home - contained in just 3 per cent of the world's land mass is illustrated through fascinating footage of flora and fauna ranging from parasitic fungi to red crab spiders that spend their entire lives in the tiny water-filled pitcher plants, to elephants that have carved broad swaths through seemingly impenetrable forest, to the world's largest chimpanzee group, 150 strong, as they ruthlessly defend their territory in Uganda's Ngogo forest from rival chimps.
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