TV tonight: let the David Attenborough 100th birthday celebrations begin!

The broadcaster relives his landmark series that changed everything. Plus, gritty casino drama The Cage continues. Here’s everything to watch this evening “There was one series that changed everything.” In 1976, after turning down the director general job (“I wouldn’t have been any good at it!”) David Attenborough embarked on a revolutionary wildlife filming expedition. Fifty years later, the team who made Life on Earth reunite – including centenarian Attenborough – and it is a real treat to hear them reminisce about the three-year journey involving 40 countries and 600 species. Hollie Richardson David Attenborough finishes his tour in naturalist Matt’s mountain-flanked garden in the Scottish Highlands. Competing gamely with the spectacular scenery are a pine marten who stumbles upon a luxurious winter retreat, a buzzard willing to fight her own son for food, and some barn owl chicks who, thanks to cameras installed in Matt’s homemade bird box, we watch hatch and take their first flight. Lucinda Everett “This is looking worryingly like scrambled eggs.” Comedian Phil Wang joins broadcaster Kate Garraway, Black Ops’ Gbemisola Ikumelo and Alma’s Not Normal creator Sophie Willan in the

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