Africa (BBC documentary series)
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Series title card from UK broadcast
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| Genre | Nature documentary |
| Narrated by |
David Attenborough (BBC version) Forest Whitaker (Discovery version, except episode six) |
| Composer(s) | Sarah Class, Will Slater |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom United States People's Republic of China France |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 5 (Netflix), 6 (BBC), 7 (Discovery) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Mike Gunton |
| Producer(s) | James Honeyborne |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
BBC Natural History Unit Discovery Channel China Central Television France Télévisions |
| Release | |
| Original network |
BBC One BBC One HD |
| Picture format |
16:9 576i (SDTV) 16:9 1080i (HDTV) |
| Audio format |
Stereo (SD) Dolby Digital (HD) |
| First shown in | United Kingdom |
| Original release | 3 January – 6 February 2013 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows |
The Blue Planet Frozen Planet |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Africa is a 2013 British television series created by the BBC Natural History Unit. It focuses on wildlife and wild habitats in Africa, and has been four years in the making. It consists for six hour-long episodes and six 10-minute-long featurettes.
As it was broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom, the six episodes are each an hour in length, comprising the main programme and a 10-minute featurette called Eye to Eye which details the filming of a particular event.
In the United States, Africa was broadcast as a seven-part series on the Discovery Channel from 8 January 2013. While the first five episodes are redubbed in the American version as Forest Whitaker gives narration, the sixth ("Africa: The Future") is left untouched as David Attenborough presents the episode on-screen. The seventh is a compilation of the Eye to Eye making-of featurettes.
In People's Republic of China, it was broadcast on the Chinese language version of CCTV-9.
In Singapore, only five episodes of Africa are broadcast on Mediacorp Okto on Animal Nights. The Animal Nights from 15 July 2013 to 24 July 2013 will be used to broadcast the documentary. Each telecast will be on the Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays of the week from 9pm-10pm.
The series received critical acclaim.
The series was released in the UK as a three-disc DVD (BBCDVD3741) and Blu-ray (BBCBD0227) box set on 18 February 2013. Region 1 DVD and Blu-ray box sets of the Discovery series were released on 26 February 2013.
An accompanying hardcover book called Africa: Eye to Eye with the Unknown () was published by Quercus on 6 December 2012. It was written by Michael Bright, a former BBC Natural History Unit producer, with a foreword by David Attenborough. The book is divided into chapters which correspond to the six programmes in the TV series. A separate chapter explains how the series was made.
A soundtrack (silcd1421) was released on 18 March 2013.
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