Frozen Planet’s eight million devoted fans will not take kindly to being left out in the cold.
It emerged yesterday a key scene from the hit BBC series showing a polar bear tending her newborn cubs was filmed in a zoo using fake snow.
Mixing real Arctic shots with zoo scenes, documentary makers fooled the audience into believing the footage was gathered by intrepid cameramen in the brutal sub-zero wilderness.
It was actually filmed from the comfort of a wildlife park enclosure using bears in a man-made wood den.
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Oh, so what. It’s ok to lie if it furthers your point. Just ask Al Gore. jaj48@aol.com
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