Earth

Season 12023

There's nothing else like it. Chris Packham reveals the epic, four-billion-year story of our home - from its dramatic creation to the arrival of human life... and whatever's next.

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5 Episodes

E01 Inferno

Chris Packham explores one of the darkest periods in Earth’s history: the worst mass extinction the planet has ever seen, when as much as 90% of all species died 252 million years ago. This extraordinary moment in Earth’s history took life to the brink, wreaking havoc and destruction on an unprecedented scale. But, somehow, life found a way to bounce back, and a new geological era ushered in the age of the dinosaurs.

July 17, 2023

E02 Snowball

Earth’s terrifying journey into the deep freeze starts with fire, not ice. 800 million years ago, long before the age of the dinosaurs, before there was even animal life, the giant supercontinent Rodinia breaks up. Earth’s vast powerful tectonic forces rip the land apart, kicking off a series of events that results in huge amounts of carbon dioxide being sucked from the atmosphere and sending global temperatures plummeting.

July 24, 2023

E03 Green

Chris Packham tells the miraculous story of how plant life turned Earth from a barren rock into a vibrant green world - a four-billion year saga of extraordinary highs and lows that almost wiped out all life on the planet. Beginning as a water world without land masses, a giant asteroid bombardment triggered Earth's plate tectonics, leading to huge fungi, soil and giant swamp forests. But the early plants locked so much carbon dioxide that global temperatures suddenly plunged.

July 31, 2023

E04 Atmosphere

When Earth first formed from clouds of dust and gas 4.6 billion years ago, it was - like so many other lifeless worlds in the universe - devoid of an atmosphere, an inhospitable rock floating in the black void of space. But as the young planet is pummelled by asteroids, a period of extraordinary upheaval begins.

August 7, 2023

E05 Human

Today, Earth is a human world, home to eight billion people and counting. Humans now have a greater effect in shaping Earth’s surface than many natural processes. Chris Packham explores how dramatic twists in Earth’s story enabled humans to go from being part of nature to controlling it and what can be learnt from this epic tale before it’s too late.

August 14, 2023

Earth

E01 Inferno

E02 Snowball

E03 Green

E04 Atmosphere

E05 Human

Rikospoliisi ei laula

Lahti 2001

The Fall of the House of Usher

Elite Short Stories: Nadia Guzmán

Sous le soleil

Born Naughty?

Iryu: Team Medical Dragon

Meaning of Life

Na lovu

动物世界

Love Makes Us Cry

Lytton's Diary

Jono and Ben at Ten

Men?

Yeloli:Moon Spirit Stone

Fittrat

Tanken - mehr als Super

E01 Inferno

E02 Snowball

E03 Green

E04 Atmosphere

E05 Human