Evolution

“Thanks to spectacular graphics, the story was absorbingly beautiful to watch even if it did gloss over the details. We traced the evolution of elephant relatives, including a shy, big-eyed fur bundle called a tree hyrax, as well as a collection of prehistoric proboscideans (or big-nosed beasts). Chris injected plenty of dry humour to keep the tone from becoming too didactic. Explaining how some elephancestors had gills, he noted, ‘Elephants aren’t famed for their deep-sea diving capabilities.’ All this, though the show aired after the watershed, made it entirely suitable for all ages.”
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail

“Evolution is television that manages that most beautiful thing: it makes you feel like a child again. Happily bombarded with new information, mesmerised, boggling at fantastic facts, feeling the touchpaper of curiosity being lit inside you and wishing you were young again – able to follow all these new avenues of exploration opening up at every turn. And if you are a child watching? Like Attenborough, Packham was a boy obsessed. There will be youngsters watching whose flames of curiosity will be ignited and never go out. What a wonderful world.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian