![]() ![]() The RSPB and WWF joined us as co-production partners in 2018. We have acquired a separate film for iPlayer from the RSPB and WWF and Silverback Films about people working to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the British Isles.”Īlastair Fothergill, the director of Silverback Films and the executive producer of Wild Isles, added: “The BBC commissioned a five-part Wild Isles series from us at Silverback Films back in 2017. ![]() Wild Isles is – and always was – a five part series and does not shy away from environmental content. In a statement provided after the story was first published, the BBC said: “This is totally inaccurate, there is no ‘sixth episode’. Why don’t they integrate those stories into all of them at the time?” They added: “Frankly, this idea that you sort of put it in a separate programme to almost parcel it to one side is disingenuous. One source at the broadcaster, who asked not to be named, said “lobbying groups that are desperately hanging on to their dinosaurian ways” such as the farming and game industry would “kick off” if the show had too political a message. This week the Telegraph newspaper attacked the BBC for creating the series and for taking funding from “two charities previously criticised for their political lobbying” – the WWF and RSPB. Senior sources at the BBC told the Guardian that the decision not to show the sixth episode was made to fend off potential critique from the political right. All six episodes were narrated by Attenborough, and made by the production company Silverback Films, which was responsible for previous series including Our Planet. The documentary series was part-funded by nature charities the WWF and RSPB, but the final episode will not be broadcast along with the others and will instead be available only on the BBC’s iPlayer service.
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