"Lizard Kings" & Nat Geo videos

[infernalis]

There is the widely discussed and well known PBS version, and the National Geographic version.

Lizard Kings | Nat Geo Wild (http://natgeotv.com.au/tv/lizard-kings/)

NOVA | Lizard Kings (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/nature/lizard-kings.html)

The narration has been re-recorded and the film sequence is different.

[infernalis]

I just got the National Geographic version, will be watching it today... I want to see just how much they changed it up.

Also just got "Thunder Dragons"

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[infernalis]

Nat Geo clip I found.

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[infernalis]

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[varanus1]

when is this on TV ?

[infernalis]

You have to keep an eye out for reruns.

Internet TV sites are great, no schedule to be slave to.

[Falconeer999]

The NOVA version is available on NetFlix instant streaming.

[infernalis]

I just got done watching the Nat Geo version, it is essentially the same thing, I don't understand why they scrambled up the sequence and re-narrated it though??

seems like it would have been easier to just leave it alone.

[Falconeer999]

Probably money/contract reasons. Person who narrated original may have signed a deal for it to be on PBS only, or that he would be paid more if it aired on another network, so they had to re-do it with a new narrator. While they were doing that, the editor may have thought he could make it better and so redid the sequencing.

I listen to Jay Thomas on satellite radio and he's done narration for a couple different shows and he's had similar type things happen. For example, he narrated the first season of Mysteries at the Museum. He got paid a couple hundred thousand dollars for it because he's semi-famous. They didn't hire him for the 2nd season and instead hired someone else for 1/10th of his fee.

[infernalis]

I am familiar with the practice, The Sinatra Family refused to sign off on the DVD versions of "Married with Children" so the familiar "love and marriage" music has all been replaced.

Rendering the DVD different from the broadcast versions.

[monitorlizard]

There was an episode of some show on Animal Planet about a decade ago that showed a Savannah Monitor eating a scorpion. I remember seeing it on Youtube not too long ago but I am unable to find it currently.