Documentaries
One Strange Rock (National Geographic, Sky 072, Anzac
Day, 7.30pm) may be the most beautiful natural history series ever filmed, even if it is science for a generation with an attention deficit.
Will Smith presents the 10-part series, which looks at how life survives on our tiny planet, or as Smith puts it, “the weird connections, the nearmisses, the lucky breaks that built our amazing world”.
Its executive producers include film-maker Darren Aronofsky and Jane Root, a former controller of the BBC. Aronofsky’s influence is evident in the slo-mo close-ups,