This type of nature doc can present life by telling of its prehistoric molecular and cellular beginnings and growth on Earth, or in a highly popular format, by exploring the diversity of living creatures in the wild today. The second genre focuses on the living part of the universe–or, rather, the living part of Earth, the only life-bearing body we know. Still from OUR UNIVERSE, courtesy of Netflix One genre focuses on the history and processes of the physical cosmos by examining its component parts, such as planets or black holes or by painting a grand picture of the whole universe, famously done in the 1980 thirteen-part TV series COSMOS by astronomer and science communicator Carl Sagan. OUR UNIVERSE qualifies as an ambitious effort to bring together the genres of science and nature documentaries. According to its website, its over-all goal is to provide “ambitious content of the highest quality.” It is currently responsible for well-known series like the DOCTOR WHO science-fiction franchise and the BBC America channel. The series comes from BBC Studios, a BBC subsidiary that creates, distributes, and shows TV content world-wide. Its six 45-minute segments have been available from Netflix since November 22, 2022. This was a grandiose concept, but now we can hear Freeman’s authoritative voice tell us about even bigger cosmological events when he narrates the real scientific story–not the fictional kind–of, well, nearly everything, in the new documentary series OUR UNIVERSE. and Russia send up nuclear bombs that deflect the comet and save Earth. Freeman soberly delivered the bad news that a giant comet was on a collision course with Earth, but then calmly reassured us that humanity had a plan to stop the coming extinction-level calamity. President Tom Beck in the science-fiction disaster film DEEP IMPACT (1998). I fondly remember Morgan Freeman playing the awesomely unruffled U. Our Universe: Merging Wildlife and Space Science
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