Man on Earth

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Man on Earth
Genre Documentary
Directed byTom Stubberfield
Presented by Tony Robinson
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes4
Production
Executive producersDavid Brady
Philip Clarke
Running time48 minutes
Original release
Network Channel 4
Release7 December (2009-12-07) 
28 December 2009 (2009-12-28)

Man on Earth is a four-part British documentary television series presented by Tony Robinson. The programme documents the effects of climate change across 200,000 years of human history. The series premiered 7 December 2009 on Channel 4 with 1.4 million viewers. [1] Accompanying Robinson to help explain the science are archaeologist Jago Cooper and climate modeller Joy Singarayer. [2]

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Episodes

#TitleOriginal airdateViewers in millions
1"The Triumph of Homo Sapiens"7 December 2009 (2009-12-07)1.4 (6%) [1]
2"The Birth of Civilisation"14 December 2009 (2009-12-14)1.27 (5.6%) [3]
3"Killer Climate"21 December 2009 (2009-12-21)1.27 (5.2%) [4]
4"The Modern World"28 December 2009 (2009-12-28)1.2 (4.9%) [5]

Reception

Sam Wollaston of The Guardian said the programme is "interesting and intelligently done – no embarrassing reconstructions with hairy chaps brandishing spears and grunting". [6] However, Jeremy Clay of the Leicester Mercury felt that the programme covered much of the same material as the BBC's The Incredible Human Journey , which aired earlier in the year. Clay was also not confident in the choice of Tony Robinson as the presenter saying that he "exudes enthusiasm rather than authority, and delivered some of his facts to camera with the air of a man who's only recently heard them himself". [7]

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