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Round Planet

  • 2016
  • Ended
  • Documentary · Comedy
  • 1 season
  • 8.0/10

This is natural history, but not as you know it. Narrated by off-kilter natural history doyen 'Armstrong Wedgewood' – played by the inimitable Matt Lucas – this is blue-chip rebooted.

Latest: Season 1 · 2016

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  1. E1. Arctic

    May 16, 2016

    Artic creatures aren't bothered by the cold. Rather, they fear the warmth caused by human activity that is setting the 'Earth's freezer' to 'defrost'.

  2. E2. Yellowstone

    Jun 21, 2016 · 26m

    Serene as it seems, Yellowstone National Park is more unpredictable than an atom of Radium-226, thanks to the active super volcano below it.

  3. E3. Oceans

    Jun 22, 2016 · 25m

    Most of Earth's animals live in the sea, where they form a "living soup" or a "massive death chowder" in which it's eat or be eaten.

  4. E4. Wildebeest

    Jun 23, 2016 · 26m

    The wildebeest, one of the many species of ungulates and "cud munchers" that populate the Serengeti, take part in a grand migration every year.

  5. E5. Madagascar

    Jun 24, 2016 · 26m

    Many of the flora and fauna of Madagascar are found nowhere else on Earth, which is why the island isn't called "Normal-a-gascar."

  6. E6. Penguins

    Jun 27, 2016 · 26m

    Penguins, "the natural world's answer to Charlie Chaplin," only have to waddle about to make children -- and Amstrong Wedgewood -- smile.

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