#SteveReviews: The Dinosaurs on Netflix
There is something almost audacious about calling a four-part television series simply The Dinosaurs. It is an enormous subject to compress into roughly three hours of television: approximately 165 million years of evolutionary history, encompassing the origins and diversification of…
#SteveReviews: Surviving Earth
There is a familiar problem with television programmes about the history of life: dinosaurs tend to steal the show. The fossil record, however, is considerably stranger and more interesting than a succession of tyrannosaurs, velociraptors and sauropods. Surviving Earth, an…
#SteveReviews: Monsters of God
If you know much about the reptile pet trade, you will be aware that it has an illegal and upsetting dark side. Eric Goode’s Monsters of God is an uncomfortable documentary series because its subject is simultaneously fascinating, disturbing and…
#StevesReviews: Evolution with Chris Packham
Few concepts have shaped modern biology as profoundly as evolution. It underpins every aspect of ecology, genetics, physiology, behaviour and conservation, yet communicating evolutionary theory to a general audience remains a considerable challenge. Evolutionary processes often occur over immense timescales,…
#SteveReviews: Secret Garden
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll know that last week was Sir David Attenborough’s 100th birthday, I could therefore think of no better way to celebrate than to watch Secret Garden. In an age dominated by frantic streaming…
#SteveReviews: Ocean with David Attenborough
At 99 years old, Sir David Attenborough delivers what might be one of the most emotional and urgent works of his storied career with Ocean with David Attenborough, a feature-length documentary that’s as breath-taking in its beauty as it is…
#SteveReviews: Wild London
When you hear the name Sir David Attenborough, your imagination usually leaps to the sweeping plains of Africa, the coral cities beneath the sea, or the silent expanses of Arctic ice. However in Wild London, a 2026 BBC One documentary…
#SteveReviews: Prehistoric Planet – Ice Age
When Prehistoric Planet first premiered in 2022, it vaulted natural-history storytelling into a new era by marrying cutting-edge visual effects with immersive narration and the scientific authority of the BBC Natural History Unit. Its first two seasons (about dinosaurs and…
#SteveReviews: Kingdom
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past couple of months, you’ve probably heard about Kingdom, which is a six-part British nature documentary series produced by BBC Studios’ Natural History Unit and narrated by Sir David Attenborough. Filmed…
#SteveReviews: Walking With Dinosaurs (2025)
When it was first announced that Walking With Dinosaurs was coming back with a new series, like many fans of the original series, I was extremely excited. The original 1999 was extremely formative and is one of the reasons why…
