I quite liked the Polar Bear: Spy on the Ice one narrated by David Tennant, but that was probably because it was fairly amusing with the little pods rolling around the ice.
I liked the Polar Bear: Spy on the Ice one... oh, what Ant said.
...I dunno. Guest presenters? Maybe that's for the best until we get a natural successor after a bit of time. Brian Cox is alright too, but it's not really something anybody could measure up to I suppose.
Brian Cox is a tit. Can't stand him on TV.
I do like BBC, a lot - but Ken Burns also does some great documentaries.
I think I prefer Brian Cox in more Physics based stuff.
Stephen Fry is a reasonable narrator for nature docs.
I didn't think you'd have to wait until Attenborough croaks. Didn't he say that the last was his last?
Obviously anything Attenborough has a hand in is going to be pure genius and you can't replace the man. He's a national treasure.
I think the Monty Python chap has done a few (Palin I think) and he's easy to listen to, as is Fry.
Brian Cox is fine for the science stuff, but his voice can sometime be a bit too soothing. "Billions and billions and b i l l i o n ssssssnore."
Going away from the BBC, I really enjoyed the Neil DeGrasse Tyson (sp?) Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey series. Very informative.
I do remember Sam Neill doing one about fifteen years ago called 'Space'. That was very good. Sam Neill should do more documentaries.
Strangely, I hated 'Through the Wormhole' with Morgan Freeman. It should have been so good, but it was all doom-mongery for no good reason as a lot of American documentaries are. "Monster' black hole 'devouring' everything in its path...and we could be next." "Our life giving Sun will kill us all!" That sort of shit.
I'm sure he's said it before but they keep bringing out new programmes with him on it, so I dunno anymore. I thought maybe they'd at least give him a nice comfy voiceover he could do from a chair, but nope last year they were winching him up trees and deep caves and whatnot.