‘I’m never swimming in the sea again!’: Wild Isles viewers left TERRIFIED by giant starfish and sea snails as they compare the ocean to a horror film
Wild Isles viewers were left terrified when the BBC show explored the British coastline for it’s final episode on Sunday.
Sir David Attenborough, 96, narrated as cameras documented the underwear wildlife with fans vowing never to venture into the ocean again.
Viewers compared what they saw to a horror film as they witnesses slimy sea slugs as well as meter-long starfish crawling along the sea floor.
With one writing: ‘Oh Lord this 7 armed star fish part of Wild Isles is like a horror film’.
While another said: ‘Definitely not swimming in the sea again’ and ‘Oh my god those starfish are creepy’.
Horror: Wild Isles viewers were left terrified when the BBC show explored the British coastline for it’s final episode on Sunday
Scary stuff: Viewers compared what they saw to a horror film as they witnesses slimy sea slugs as well as meter-long starfish crawling along the sea floor (1954’s Creature from the Black Lagoon pictured)
Gross: Sir David Attenborough, 96, narrated as cameras documented the underwear wildlife with fans vowing never to venture into the ocean again (giant starfish pictured)
Underwater creepy crawlies: Viewers were left hiding their eyes (sea slug pictured)
And a third commented: ‘Not gonna lie, most of what they’ve shown so far tonight on Wild Isles are why i do not go into the sea. It’s like something out of [Sci fi show] Doctor Who or [Horror channel] Shudder.
Someone else wrote in horror: ‘7 armed starfish, half a meter across!’.
And: ‘Enough with the slugs now please …land or sea, a slug is a slug!’.
It comes after it was revealed The BBC won’t broadcast an episode of Sir David’s Wild Isles series because of fears it would risk a backlash from Tory politicians and the right-wing press, it has been reported.
The episode which focuses of themes of the destruction of nature across the UK and reportedly won’t be broadcast to fend off potential critique from the political right.
The documentary, which was part-funded by nature charities WWF and RSPB will not be broadcast with the other five episodes and will only be available on the BBC’s streaming service iPlayer.
It comes as the BBC has taken Gary Lineker off air after he reportedly refused to apologise for his tweet comparing the Government’s Illegal Migration Bill to 1930s Germany, when the Nazis came to power.
The corporation fears some ‘lobbying groups’ with ‘dinosaurian ways’ like the farming and hunting industry would ‘kick off’ if the show had potential to be too political, according to the Guardian.
Upsetting scenes: With one writing: ‘Oh Lord this 7 armed star fish part of Wild Isles is like a horror film’
Slugs: Thousands of slugs could be seen emerging from the sand
What? Another viewers wrote: Not gonna lie, most of what they’ve shown so far tonight on Wild Isles are why i do not go into the sea. It’s like something out of [Sci fi show] Doctor Who or [Horror channel] Shudder
The Telegraph criticised the series this week for taking funding from ‘two charities previously criticised for their political lobbying’ – the WWF and RSPB.
But in a statement provided after the story was published, a BBC spokesman said: ‘This is totally inaccurate, there is no ‘sixth episode’.
‘Wild Isles is – and always was – a five part series and does not shy away from environmental content.
‘We have acquired a separate film for iPlayer from the RSPB and WWF and Silverback Films about people working to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the British Isles.’
Laura Howard, who produced the programme, told the Guardian: ‘I think the facts speak for themselves’.
‘You know, we’ve worked really closely with the RSPB in particular who are able to factcheck all of our scripts and provide us with detailed scientific data and information about the loss of wildlife in this country.
Banned: It comes after it was revealed The BBC won’t broadcast an episode of Sir David’s Wild Isles series because of fears it would risk a backlash from Tory politicians and the right-wing press, it has been reported
‘And it is undeniable, we are incredibly nature-depleted. And I don’t think that that is political, I think it’s just facts.’
Green Party MP for Brighton Pavillion Caroline Lucas struck out at the BBC, slamming its decision as an ‘unforgiveable dereliction of its duty to public service broadcasting’.
Mrs Lucas told the Guardian the BBC shouldn’t be intimidated by a culture war stoking Government and called for the episode to be televised.
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