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BBC Studios Science Unit
BBC Studios Productions Limited is a British content production company and is BBC Studios' national production division, producing a wide range of programmes such as '' Top Gear'' and ''Strictly Come Dancing''. BBC Studios Productions is responsible for producing programmes while BBC Studios is in charge of ventures like UKTV and the distribution and selling of formats of BBC programmes. BBC Studios Productions is the biggest content producer in the United Kingdom. Divisions BBC Studios Productions has 12 production divisions responsible for producing different programmes for their channels, as well as other broadcasters including Apple TV+, Amazon Prime Video, Channel 4, Channel 5, UKTV, Discovery Channel, Netflix and PBS. BBC Studios Science Unit The BBC Studios Science Unit has produced a wide range of scientific programmes for multiple broadcasters. The department is headed up by Andrew Cohen and is overseen by the Factual Managing Director Tom McDonald. Titles * ' ...
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Division (business)
A division, sometimes called a business sector or business unit (segment), is one of the parts into which a business, organization or company is divided. Overview Divisions are distinct parts of a business. If these divisions are all part of the same company, then that company is legally responsible for all of the obligations and debts of the divisions. In the banking industry, an example would be East West Bancorp and its primary subsidiary, East West Bank. Legal responsibility Subsidiaries are separate, distinct Commercial law, legal entities for the purposes of taxation, regulation and Legal liability, liability. For this reason, they differ from divisions, which are businesses fully integrated within the main company, and not legally or otherwise distinct from it. The ''Houston Chronicle'' highlighted that the creation of a division "is substantially easier than developing subsidiaries. Because a division is an internal segment of a company, not an entirely separate enti ...
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The Sky At Night
''The Sky at Night'' is a documentary television programme on astronomy produced by the BBC. The show had the same permanent presenter, Sir Patrick Moore, from its first monthly broadcast on 24 April 1957 until 7 January 2013. The latter date was a posthumous broadcast, following Moore's death on 9 December 2012. This made it the longest-running programme with the same presenter in television history. Many early episodes are missing, either because the tapes were wiped or discarded, or because the episode was broadcast live and never recorded in the first place. The programme was shown monthly up until 2023. Beginning with the 3 February 2013 edition, the show was co-presented by Lucie Green and Chris Lintott. Since December 2013 Maggie Aderin-Pocock has also been a presenter. In April 2023, Dr George Dransfield joined the show as a presenter. Pete Lawrence has presented an observing section on the programme since 2004 as well as producing an online monthly star Guide on ...
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Human Universe
''Human Universe'' is a British television series broadcast on BBC Two, presented by Professor Brian Cox. An accompanying book was also published. Episodes 1. "Apeman – Spaceman" First broadcast: 9:00 pm, 7 Oct 2014 on BBC Two Brian charts our story from apes to the birth of civilization and ultimately to the stars. Beginning in Ethiopia, Professor Brian Cox discovers how the universe played a key role in our ascent from apeman to spaceman by driving the expansion of our brains. But big brains alone did not get us to space. To reveal what did, Brian heads out of Africa, to the ancient city of Petra in Jordan, where he unpicks the next part of our story – the birth of civilization – and then on to Kazakhstan, where he witnesses the return of astronauts from space and explains what took us from civilization to the stars. 2. "Why Are We Here?" First broadcast: 9:00 pm, 14 Oct 2014 on BBC Two Brian Cox tackles the question that unites the 7& ...
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Wonders Of The Universe
''Wonders of the Universe'' is a 2011 television series produced by the BBC, Discovery Channel, and Science Channel, hosted by physicist Professor Brian Cox. ''Wonders of the Universe'' was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two from 6 March 2011. The series comprises four episodes, each of which focuses on an aspect of the universe and features a 'wonder' relevant to the theme. It follows on from Cox's 2010 series for the BBC, ''Wonders of the Solar System''. An accompanying book with the same title was also published. Episodes 1. "Destiny" In the first episode, Cox considers the fundamental nature of time while pondering the ruins at Chankillo in Peru. He explores the familiarly brief cycles of time that define the lives of humans on Earth (such as days, months, and years), and compares them to the cycles of time on a cosmically universal scale (such as the Solar System's 250 million year circuit around the Milky Way). At the Perito Moreno Glacier Cox introduces th ...
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Wonders Of The Solar System
''Wonders of the Solar System'' is a 2010 television series co-produced by the BBC and Science Channel, and hosted by physicist Brian Cox (physicist), Brian Cox. ''Wonders of the Solar System'' was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on 7 March 2010. The series comprises five episodes, each of which focuses on an aspect of the Solar System and features a 'wonder' relevant to the theme. The series was described as one of the most successful to appear on BBC Two in recent years. An accompanying book with the same name was also published. On 31 March 2011, the series won the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award for excellence in documentary film-making. Episodes 1. "Empire of the Sun" The first episode illustrates how the formation and behaviour of the Sun affects each planet in the Solar System. During this episode, Cox visits India to view and explain the workings of a total solar eclipse and the partial eclipses that occur on other planets. He travels to the I ...
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The Planets (1999 TV Series)
''The Planets'' is a documentary miniseries produced by the BBC and A&E and released in 1999. The series was remastered in 2004. It documents the Solar System and its nature, formation, and discovery by humans during the Space Age. The series of eight episodes includes a substantial amount of archival footage from both the United States and Soviet space programs. It also depicts the Solar System through computer graphics. There were a total of eight episodes produced for the series. The series featured appearances from famous pioneering space scientists and explorers, and was narrated by Samuel West in the original 1999 edition, and Mark Halliley in the 2004 remastered edition. Episodes Commentators in episode 1 include Hal Levison, George Wetherill, and David Levy. Commentators in episode 4 include Apollo 17 Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmidt, while episode 5 features Apollo 12 Commander Charles Conrad and solar physicist Eugene Parker (of whom the NASA Parker Solar Pr ...
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Walking With Monsters
''Walking with Monsters – Life Before Dinosaurs'', marketed as ''Before the Dinosaurs – Walking with Monsters'' in North America, is a 2005 three-part nature documentary television miniseries created by Impossible Pictures and produced by the BBC Studios Science Unit, the Discovery Channel, ProSieben and France 3. ''Walking with Monsters'' explores life in the Paleozoic era, showcasing the early development of groups such as arthropods, fish, amphibians, reptiles and synapsids. Like its predecessors '' Walking with Dinosaurs'' (1999) and '' Walking with Beasts'' (2001), ''Walking with Monsters'' is narrated by Kenneth Branagh. ''Walking with Monsters'' is the final installment in the '' Walking with...'' series of documentaries and was envisioned as completing the series' so-called "''Trilogy of Life''", the previous ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' and ''Walking with Beasts'' having explored the Mesozoic and Cenozoic, respectively. Like its predecessors, ''Walking with Monsters ...
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Walking With Beasts
''Walking with Beasts'', marketed as ''Walking with Prehistoric Beasts'' in North America, is a 2001 six-part nature documentary television miniseries created by Impossible Pictures and produced by the BBC Science Unit, the Discovery Channel, ProSieben and TV Asahi. The sequel to the 1999 miniseries ''Walking with Dinosaurs'', ''Walking with Beasts'' explores the life in the Cenozoic era, after the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs, particularly focusing on the rise of the mammals to dominance. The UK version of the series is narrated by Kenneth Branagh, who also narrated ''Walking with Dinosaurs'', and the US version is narrated by Stockard Channing. Like ''Walking with Dinosaurs'', ''Walking with Beasts'' recreated extinct animals through a combination of computer-generated imagery and animatronics, incorporated into live action footage shot at various locations. It was more challenging to create convincing effects, both computer graphics and animatronics, depicting mammal ...
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Walking With Dinosaurs
''Walking with Dinosaurs'' is a 1999 six-part nature documentary television miniseries created by Tim Haines and produced by the BBC Science Unit, the Discovery Channel and BBC Worldwide, in association with TV Asahi, ProSieben and France 3. Envisioned as the first "Natural History of Dinosaurs", ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' depicts dinosaurs and other Mesozoic animals as living animals in the style of a traditional nature documentary. The series first aired on the BBC in the United Kingdom in 1999 with narration by Kenneth Branagh. The series was subsequently aired in North America on the Discovery Channel in 2000, with Avery Brooks replacing Branagh. ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' recreated extinct species through the combined use of computer-generated imagery and animatronics that were incorporated with live action footage shot at various locations, the techniques being inspired by the film ''Jurassic Park'' (1993). At a cost of £6.1 million ($9.9 million), ''Walking with Dinos ...
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Solar System (TV Series)
''Solar System'' is a 2024 documentary TV miniseries produced by the BBC and narrated by Brian Cox. The first episode was shown on BBC Two on 7 October 2024, with the remaining four episodes made available on BBC iPlayer on the same date. It follows Cox's previous series ''Wonders of the Solar System'', shown in 2010, and ''The Planets'', shown in 2019. The programme is focused on explaining scientific knowledge of the Solar System The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies. The International Astronomical Union, the authoritative body regarding astronomical nomenclature, specifies capitalizing the names of all individual astronomical objects but uses mixed "Sola ... in simple terms, using a combination of Earth-based experiments, CGI, and real footage. Episodes References External links * * 2024 British television series debuts 2024 British television series endings Science education television series Documentary films about outer space Documentary ...
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A Year To Change The World
''Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World'' is a three-part documentary series following the climate change activist Greta Thunberg from August 2019 to late 2020, when she was aged 16–17. She travels North America and Europe, hearing experts talk about the complex and diverse effects climate change has had, including damage to forests, the retreat of glaciers, ocean acidification and flash flooding. The series also explores methods to combat climate change such as carbon capture and helping wetlands and mangroves to flourish, but finds that such solutions cannot be rolled out fast enough to be the only part of a climate change mitigation plan. Additionally, Thunberg speaks at conferences, meets the natural historian David Attenborough and attends climate strikes. Plans for filming in other parts of the world were abandoned when the COVID-19 pandemic restricted travel from March 2020 onwards. Production Thunberg said that the motivation for the project was "to give science a ...
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The Facts
The Facts may refer to: * '' The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography'', a novel by Philip Roth * ''The Facts'' (Seattle), a weekly African-American newspaper based in Seattle, Washington's Central District, founded in 1961 * ''The Facts'', a newspaper based in Clute, Texas * '' Brazosport Facts'' * ''The Facts'', the 114th segment on the Strong Bad Email Series of ''Homestar Runner ''Homestar Runner'' is an American comedy animated web series and website created by Mike and Matt Chapman, known collectively as The Brothers Chaps. The series centers on the adventures of a large and diverse cast of characters, headed by the ...
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