Discovery to telecast Blue Planet in India

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal">LONDON: BBC''s ground breaking natural history series <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">The Blue Planet,</span> winner of three Wildscreen Pandas - Green Oscars, will be telecast in India by Discovery Channel.<br />Produced at a cost of 7 million pounds over five years, this monument of natural history film considered as one of the best factual programmes would be telecast on the Discovery Channel from January 23 next, Mark Young, BBC Worldwide Managing Director, told reporters yesterday.<br />Universally recognised as an awe-inspiring exploration of the Earth''s final frontier, <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">The Blue Planet</span> takes a journey down into the twilight zone and deeper still into the black abyss at 1,000 metres.There are creatures straight out of Alien - hairy anglers, fang-toothed fishes and a deep-sea octopus that looks Dumbo in full flight. There are some with teeth so big that they can''t close their mouths, gulper eels that swallow prey bigger than themselves.<br />According to David Attenborough, who narrated the series, "Our planet is a blue planet - over 70 per cent of it is covered by sea. Yet, less is known about the world''s deep oceans than is known about the moon.<br />The film shows in dramatic sequence the biggest animal that has ever lived on the planet, the blue whale, which is 30 metres long and weighs over 200 tonnes - bigger than even the biggest dinosaur. Its tongue weighs as much as an elephant, its heart is the size of a car and it can cruise at 20 knots. <br />Despite their enormous size very little is understood about where blue whales migrate, and no one has a clue where they go to breed. </div> </div>