Netflix are accused of rip-off
BBC bosses have branded Netflix show Our Planet a rip-off of their programmes and accused the streaming network of stealing presenter Sir David Attenborough.
The broadcaster, 92, will voice all eight episodes of the series, which was filmed over four years by a 600-strong crew scattered around the globe.
But Beeb insiders say it copies award-winning shows produced every year by their Natural History Unit.
Our Planet was made by former NHU chief Alastair Fothergill.
A source said: “They’ve nicked the filming techniques, the stories, even the title from us, not to mention the presenter. And it’s been made by an ex-BBC producer who still makes natural history programmes for the BBC.
“There is nothing in any way original about this series. The only difference is they used 600 crew for work we’d have done with about 60. Sir David will always be part of the BBC. We’ve just lent him to Netflix.”
Our Planet will be released in April. archivist Kiara King manages 250 linear metres of shelved artefacts, products and documents, related to almost every brewery in Scotland.
There are 23.6 metres of Tennent’s materials, from a 1776 rough book of company notes, to press clippings from 2006.
The brewing archive began as an idea of professors at Heriot-Watt in Edinburgh in 1977, opened in 1982 in the capital then moved to Glasgow in 1991, before coming under the auspices of Glasgow university in 2008.
An amazing collection of vintage cans, bottles, posters, adverts, ledgers and account books tell an incredible story of how Scotland’s beer and lager world developed since the 1500s.
Kiara said: “These records tell the story of the business – what they make and sell – and a much bigger story of society, what people consumed, where we worked, how we worked. The records are a really important element of how Scotland remembers itself. “Tennent’s is a real success story. “The lager story is particularly interesting, brewing lager which no one else was doing, and they had a German head brewer.”
Tennent’s began in 1556 when the family started brewing beer on the Molendinar Burn, near the brand’s current home. They did not register as a company until 1740 when brothers Hugh and Robert Tennent opened H&R