MINISERIES PREMIERE: This is the latest nature miniseries from Alastair Fothergill and his team, the group behind such beautiful and influential nature series as The Blue Planet and Planet Earth. Narration is provided by Sir David Attenborough, and this Netflix series marks the first significant time the famed filmmaker has strayed outside British television to present a nature series. There’s no discernible difference in the quality of the filmmaking: sights and sounds are equally breathtaking, whether you’re watching and hearing ice shelves break apart or witnessing blue whales breaking the water’s surface. In these episodes, enough time is spent, close up and personal, to make you really care for individual species of animals around the globe, like an orangutan patiently teaching her offspring the tricks of the food-gathering trade. And then the focus widens, to show how precarious their environment is, because of human encroachment. The lesson in every hour of Our Planet is inherent in the title: We humans have taken ownership of this place, and, as landlords, we’re destroying the place. Attenborough, as he’s been for more than 50 years on television, is both concerned and optimistic. We can reverse the trends – but the trends, he insists (and pretty much proves), are dangerous ones. For a full review, see Alex Strachan's TV That Matters.