The Green Plane t features cutting-edge research and world-leading photography brought to life with the wonderful storytelling skills of Simon Barnes, award-winning author of over 20 books. A 5 x 60 series, The Green Planet is the first landmark NHU project on plant life since 1995's The Private Life of Plants , and it will take in major advance in both the science of plants and the technology in filming them. The Green Planet will kick off the BBC's centenary year celebrations. Coproduced with PBS, Bilibili, ZDF German Television, France Télévisions, and NHK. Global premiere was in Glasgow in conjunction with the COP26 summit, at which Attenborough gave an opening address https://www.wired.com/story/david-attenborough-climate-crisis/ Wired on Attenborough: On September 24, 2020, the 95-year-old broke the Guinness World Record for attracting 1 million followers just four hours and 44 minutes after he joined Instagram, beating the previous record holder, Jennifer Aniston, by over 30 minutes. The public response was so overwhelming that he left the platform 27 posts and just over a month later, after being inundated with messages.

In 2019, Attenborough's series Our Planet became Netflix's most-watched original documentary, viewed by 33 million people in its first month.