Producers Of David Attenborough-Narrated BBC Show Accused Of Misleading Viewers

Producers Of David Attenborough-Narrated BBC Show Accused Of Misleading Viewers

The producers of a popular BBC documentary narrated by legendary wildlife commentator David Attenborough have been called out by viewers for including misleading footage.

Blue Planet II features a segment claiming that thousands of plastic toys were still being found across the world’s oceans after a storm hit a ship in 1992 and knocked them overboard.

The show’s producers planted ducks in the ocean to replicate the incident, but viewers were quick to label the footage misleading, claiming they weren’t made aware the ducks were in fact not from the 1992 shipwreck.

Another viewer tweeted: “So whose job was it to follow the yellow ducks around for 15 years then?”

BBC filmmaker Sarah Conner later revealed on Twitter that the ducks were planted, before directing outraged viewers to a blog post by the show’s producer, John Ruthven, about how the segment was put together.




Please login with linkedin to comment

BBC Blue Planet II david attenborough

Latest News

The Mars Agency Announces Latest Findings Of Retail Media Report Card
  • Advertising

The Mars Agency Announces Latest Findings Of Retail Media Report Card

The Mars Agency has developed a scorecard that assesses the capabilities of leading platforms across key criteria required to optimally plan, execute, and measure effective retail media programs. The scorecard aims To help brands efficiently evaluate their spending options across retail media networks in Australia (and New Zealand). With spending on retail media advertising in […]

TV Ratings (27/03/2024): Jungle Members At War Over Concealed Lipstick
  • TV Ratings

TV Ratings (27/03/2024): Jungle Members At War Over Concealed Lipstick

A heated argument between two jungle members did the numbers for Ten last night, with I’m A Celeb obtaining a total national reach of 1,282,000. Fans were delighted as Candice Warner and influencer Skye Wheatley got into it over a stick of lipstick, leading Warner to dub the Instagram star “selfish.” Wheatley, best known for […]