# David Attenborough’s Blue Planet III celebrates marine life and new discoveries

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/blue-planet-iii-review-david-attenborough-makes-another-absolute-corker/
- Published: 2026-11-01T21:00:21+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-01T21:17:17+00:00
- Original publisher: The Guardian (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/nov/01/blue-planet-iii-review-david-attenborough-bbc-iplayer
- Topics: Americas, Business, Culture, Markets, World

## Key points

- David Attenborough’s Blue Planet III brings fresh marine discoveries.
- Sharks, dolphins and a turtle feature in the opening episode.
- The series balances comedy and spectacle with climate concerns.

## Summary

Blue Planet III returns as David Attenborough’s latest major wildlife series, offering a vivid look at marine life and a measure of hope amid growing environmental concern. The review argues that the programme succeeds by celebrating new discoveries and familiar natural history storytelling, without needing to match the cultural impact of earlier instalments.

The first episode follows dolphins using sea sponges, sharks co-operating to herd fish, and a turtle escaping a shark by turning towards shallow water. It also finds comic moments in harlequin shrimp and fiddler crabs, before showing a clownfish caring for an anemone threatened by a heatwave. The article ends mid-sentence, so it provides no further detail about that sequence.

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