We are sorry, you need to be a subscriber to watch this videoWe are sorry, you need to be a subscriber to watch this videoThe BBC has withdrawn its acclaimed Human Planet natural history series after a second deception scandal in less than a month. The award-winning documentary is being removed from Netflix and 25 other channels around the world while an editorial review is held. A central scene in the first episode, which purported to show a young Indonesian man harpooning his first whale, was inaccurate, the BBC admitted yesterday. The deception was exposed weeks after the BBC revealed that producers misled viewers in the fourth episode by asking tribesmen from Papua New Guinea to build an impractically high treehouse. The double scandal represents a serious blow to the reputation of the BBC’s world-famous natural history unit, which also produces the blockbuster Sir David Attenborough series such as…

Source: The Times April 26, 2018 16:07 UTC