David Attenborough is our family’s greatest hero – when my daughters and I saw him live on stage in Auckland a couple of years ago, we all cried. His natural history series have been a stalwart of family TV viewing, and I love that he’s been able to make more and more of them in recent years. Having said that, I’ve probably had my fill of large shoals of mackerel/sardines/lantern fish being rounded up by dolphins/tuna/whales and then dive bombed by gannets/pelicans/boobies. That’s how spoilt we’ve become, I guess.
In most of his programmes there will be a serial bad guy that keeps turning up to spoil the party – wasps, killer whales, zombifying fungus – but there’s no doubt who the bad guy is in this latest series – it’s us.