Lorne Greene's New Wilderness
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Lorne Greene's New Wilderness (or just New Wilderness) was a Canadian
television
nature
documentary
series starting in 1982 starring Lorne Greene
. The series initially aired on CTV
but was later widely syndicated
. It was a followup to an earlier, similar 1970s documentary series entitled Untamed World (later titled Untamed Frontier).
It is a multiple award-winning wildlife
program, number one in its time slot for five years running, and provides stunning photography
coupled with a genuine feeling for the subject matter. There are 104 episodes in the series, each 30 minutes long.
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
nature
Nature
Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical world, or material world. "Nature" refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general...
documentary
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
series starting in 1982 starring Lorne Greene
Lorne Greene
Lorne Greene , was the stage name of Lyon Himan Green, OC, a Canadian actor.His television roles include Ben Cartwright on the western Bonanza, and Commander Adama in the science fiction movie and subsequent TV Series Battlestar Galactica...
. The series initially aired on CTV
CTV television network
CTV Television Network is a Canadian English language television network and is owned by Bell Media. It is Canada's largest privately-owned network, and has consistently placed as Canada's top-rated network in total viewers and in key demographics since 2002, after several years trailing the rival...
but was later widely syndicated
Television syndication
In broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows by multiple radio stations and television stations, without going through a broadcast network, though the process of syndication may conjure up structures like those of a network itself, by its very...
. It was a followup to an earlier, similar 1970s documentary series entitled Untamed World (later titled Untamed Frontier).
It is a multiple award-winning wildlife
Wildlife
Wildlife includes all non-domesticated plants, animals and other organisms. Domesticating wild plant and animal species for human benefit has occurred many times all over the planet, and has a major impact on the environment, both positive and negative....
program, number one in its time slot for five years running, and provides stunning photography
Photography
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
coupled with a genuine feeling for the subject matter. There are 104 episodes in the series, each 30 minutes long.