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UK spies used fake rock to monitor Russians

A former UK government official has revealed to the BBC that Britain was caught spying... more

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Afghan opium profits up 133% according to UN

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How Many Female Pandas Does it Take to Screw in a Lightbulb?

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Lovely Katie McGrath brings the pain to Merlin on the BBC-Syfy show! (Audio interview)

Audio interview with actress Katie McGrath, who stars in the BBC/Syfy genre show... more

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Rupertgate Tuesday - Piers Morgan Testifies . . .More Or Less.

Today's circus.

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Rupertgate Tuesday - The Smoking Son.

The gift that keeps on giving.

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Iran shows film of captured US drone

Iranian TV has shown the first video footage of an advanced US drone aircraft that... more

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Nights At The Roundtable - The Lilac Time in Session - 1988

In praise of the underrated bands . . . .

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Backstage Weekend - Third World Live At The Hammersmith Odeon -1982

Lively up yourself . . . .honest.

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TriBeCa Film Festival Draws Cannes Veteran

The TriBeCa Film Festival’s organizers announced the appointment of a new... more

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Pseudonym : " Karl L Le Marcs" - Extrication of Press Agent from Representation or Affiliation

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Formal Notice and Public Statement of Extrication of Press Agent from Representation or Affiliation: Pseudonym, "KARL L LE MARCS" (Agent: Susan M Kovalinsky; Metro Media Consulting Group, LLC; New York City, Detroit)

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Both PR Log and 24-7 Press Release agencies and their respective editorial boards have been notified and all materials by this author on this pseudonym have been deleted.

The author name 'Karl L Le Marcs' (sometimes listed as "A Dark Philosopher") is a pseudonym for a British national ; This pseudonym representing a person formally and publicly documented regarding specific activities during the period of 2007-09, which form the motivation for this extrication.

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Nights At The Roundtable - The Yardbirds In Session - 1965

The legendary Yardbirds in session at the BBC.

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Rupertgate Wednesday - Sleazing By Example.

Oh, the Tabloid Press . . . .

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Doctor Who takes over BBC Worldwide youtube channels for live and interactive Matt Smith streaming event

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Newstalgia Backstage Weekend - Led Zeppelin Live At The Paris Theater - 1971

It wouldn't be the 70's without them.

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Matt Smith strips out costume for CIN + peek at Doctor Who Christmas special

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Frozen Planet "climate change" episode not to be shown in US

The decision by "Discovery, the US broadcaster that co-produced the series, along with unnamed other foreign broadcasters, will not show this final episode will rightly dismay everyone who accepts that Earth is warming."

Frozen Planet has a duty to inspire debate as well as wonder

It was for his joyous curiosity about the natural world that British television viewers took David Attenborough to their hearts in the 1970s and kept him there. Whether sitting alongside a gorilla in the most famous sequence in the original Life on Earth series, or peering at the multicoloured chameleons that are his favourite creatures in a BBC special earlier this year, Attenborough's life's work has been to show people what is most beautiful and interesting about our planet.

Frozen Planet, the BBC natural history unit's latest production, is mostly more of the same and British audiences are lapping it up, with 7m viewers tuning in to the penguin-heavy third episode last week. But as Attenborough explained when I interviewed him last month, it isn't possible to spend four years filming in the Arctic and Antarctic without worrying about what is going on. Glaciers are retreating, Arctic ice cover has shrunk by 30% in 30 years and polar bears are finding it harder to survive. So the final programme in the series On Thin Ice (a working title of Meltdown was junked – presumably for sounding too alarmist), due to be aired on 7 December, explains in some detail how we know this and what it might mean, while studiously (some will say wrongly) avoiding any discussion of the causes.

Reports in British newspapers yesterday that Discovery, the US broadcaster that co-produced the series, along with unnamed other foreign broadcasters, will not show this final episode will rightly dismay everyone who accepts that Earth is warming. That audiences invited to sit through five hours of groundbreaking natural history – including the first footage of killer whales tipping seals off ice floes (as Captain Scott said they could 100 years ago), and a hibernating polar bear nursing her cubs while half-asleep – could be sent away none the wiser as to the existential threat facing many of these species, seems ludicrous.

Asked why it decided to sell episode seven as an optional add-on, the BBC sounded defensive, no doubt furious that a hugely expensive, landmark Attenborough series – the kind of thing even the corporation's critics usually approve of – could turn into a PR headache if newspapers convince people the BBC has censored content for commercial gain. This was the line taken by the Telegraph, which headlined its story "BBC drops Frozen Planet's climate change episode to sell show better abroad".

An annoyed BBC Worldwide director responded in a blog that the reason On Thin Ice was treated differently from the rest of the series was because it is "presenter-led" and thus requires dubbing rather than the voiceover used in episodes when Attenborough is not in shot. This explanation makes obvious sense for foreign-language markets, less obvious sense for English-language ones like the US. But the Blue Planet and Planet Earth series were both narrated by film stars for Discovery (Pierce Brosnan and Sigourney Weaver), so it seems likely they will do the same with Frozen Planet and cut Attenborough out. A spokesperson who refused to be quoted told me the channel is baffled by the story and denied that a decision to leave out episode seven when the series airs in the US had been made: since Discovery is a co-producer it doesn't have to buy a license which would set out its plans.

Watching a preview of On Thin Ice last night it seemed obvious the programme was made for a British audience. Several times Attenborough refers to previous journeys, using personal experience to force home the point that nature is adapting to climate change: there weren't so many Gentoo penguins in Antarctica last time I was here, he says at one point. This clearly wouldn't work in the same way for audiences in Brazil or Japan who don't already know him.

British people broadly believe what he tells them, he told me when I met him. This is why he doesn't do adverts. It's to his credit, I think, that Attenborough at 85 wants to spend some of the capital he has accrued through decades of giving people enjoyment by telling them some bad news about the environment. If audiences get to the end of Frozen Planet feeling worried about life on Earth as well as amazed by some of its hardiest creatures, then good.

If those in the US or anywhere else see all the action, the hunts and fights and chases, the polar bear cubs slipping and sliding on the ice, but miss out on the analysis underpinning it because the commentary, in whatever language, is not adjusted to incorporate some of these crucial facts, their broadcasters will have failed them. For what is the point of education, if not the truth?The decision by "Discovery, the US broadcaster that co-produced the series, along... more

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November 16, 1997 - Dissidents And A Whiff Of Sleaze.

Another day in paradise . . . .

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BBC Nature Show Drops Climate Change Episode In Order To Sell Better In The U.S.

Last month, the BBC released Frozen Planet, its much-anticipated follow-up to the Planet Earth series. The new seven-part documentary explores life in the Arctic and Antarctic, including an entire episode on the dangers posed by humans and global warming.

However, viewers in the United States will not see that final episode because the BBC believed it would not play well abroad.

The Discovery Channel, which will broadcast the series in the U.S., claimed it “only had slots for six episodes,” preventing an extended discussion on the effects of climate change. The BBC also justified the move by claiming that Sir David Attenborough, the iconic British voice of many nature documentaries, was not well known enough to justify the episode, which features the Brit talking at length to the camera.

“British viewers will see seven episodes, the last of which deals with global warming and the threat to the natural world posed by man. However, viewers in other countries, including the United States, will only see six episodes.
The environmental programme has been relegated by the BBC to an “optional extra” alongside a behind-the-scenes documentary which foreign networks can ignore. [...] Viewers in the United States, where climate change sceptics are particularly strong group, will not see the full episode.”

Instead, the BBC said that Discovery, which shows the series in the U.S., had a “scheduling issue so only had slots for six episodes,” so “elements” of the climate change episode would be incorporated into their final show, with editorial assistance from the Corporation.

The Earth’s poles are acutely affected by climate change. Any discussion of their life and environment would be sorely lacking without noting the ways in which they are harmed by global warming. Unfortunately, the BBC has decided to alter its series for American viewers rather than have a frank and honest discussion with Americans about the effects of climate change.

By Scott Keys | Nov 15, 2011Last month, the BBC released Frozen Planet, its much-anticipated follow-up to the... more

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