Alien Empire
Alien Empire is a documentary television series about insects produced by the BBC, and first broadcast by PBS in 1996. It is subtitled Inside the Kingdom of the Insect.
Episodes
The following six episodes were broadcast on BBC1:
- Episode 1: Hardware. 15 February 1996.[1][2]
- Episode 2: Replicators. 22 February 1996.[3][4]
- Episode 3: Battlezone. 29 February 1996.[5][6]
- Episode 4: Voyagers. 7 March 1996.[7]
- Episode 5: Metropolis. 14 March 1996.[8][9]
References
- "Television and Video" in "Teaching Resources". Resh and Carde (eds). Encyclopedia of Insects. Academic Press. 2003. p 1115.
- Lucy Ellmann, "Fat and feminist issues", The Independent, 18 February 1996
- Thomas Sutcliffe, "Review", The Independent, 1 March 1996
- Seth Goldstein, "Alien Empire Creeping Into Stores" in "Picture This", Billboard, 24 February 1996, p 56
- "Documentary: Alien Empire" in "Reviews & Previews", Billboard, 24 February 1996, p 89
- "The West and the World of Insects", Billboard, 25 October 1996, p 76
- Caitlin Lovinger, "Spotlight: Small World", New York Times, 11 February 1996, Section 12, p 21
- Walter Goodman, "TV Weekend; Sex, Beauty, Home and Travel Tips on Bugs", New York Times, 9 February 1996, Section D, p 17
- Lee Harris, "Weekend TV: An All-Star Sunday for NBA and Movies", Los Angeles Times, 10 February 1996
- Mary Stevens, "Bugs abound in Alien Empire", Chicago Tribune, 15 March 1996
- (1996) 62 Quill & Quire 6
- "Alien Empire" (1996) 15 International Documentary 9
- The New Yorker. Google
- ^ For reviews of this episode, see Peter Waymark, "Alien Empire" in "Choice", The Times, 15 February 1996, p 43; and Lynne Truss, "Mismatched music guilty of sonic insecticide", The Times, 16 February 1996, p 43
- ^ Radio Times, Issue 3759, 10 February 1996, reprinted at BBC Programme Index
- ^ For a review of this episode, see Lynne Truss, "Number-crunching is the insects' buzz word", The Times, 23 February 1996, p 39
- ^ Radio Times, Issue 3760, 17 February 1996, reprinted at BBC Programme Index
- ^ For a review of this episode, see Peter Waymark, "Alien Empire: Battle Zone" in "Choice", The Times, 29 February 1996, p 47.
- ^ Radio Times, Issue 3761, 24 February 1996, reprinted at BBC Programme Index
- ^ Radio Times, Issue 3762, 2 March 1996, reprinted at BBC Programme Index
- ^ For a review of this episode, see Lynne Truss, "Ladies, mistresses and dominant females", The Times, 15 March 1996, p 43.
- ^ Radio Times, Issue 3763, 9 March 1996, reprinted at BBC Programme Index