Nature programming to look forward to (tonight)

Television programming not to miss tonight comes as Frozen Planet on the Discovery channel, according to the Associated Press article, "Frozen Planet thrills with its shots, stories," by Frazier Moore.
    The seven-part series's producer is Alastair Fothergill, who also produced the documentaries The Blue Planet (2001) and Planet Earth (2006). Moore writes that the series

takes a fresh look at Antarctica as well as its north-end counterpart, the Arctic, in seven gorgeous episodes premiering tonight on Discovery. And while you may not be ready to dismiss filmdom's stars and screenplay writers as unnecessary, Frozen Planet makes a strong case that Nature—captured in the wild—can equal Hollywood for epic sweep and drama.

    The version of this AP article that I read in a morning paper includes the information that

The many up-close-and-personal scenes they bagged say as much about Frozen Planet as the vast scope of the enterprise, which can be expressed in remarkable statistics: four years in production; 38 camera persons; 2,356 combined days in the field; 1-1/2 years at sea; 840 hours trapped in blizzards.

Apparently a work of love, and a work we can look forward to loving. David Attenborough was heavily involved; he does the narration.