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Sigourney replaces Sir David on Earth

Thu 12 Apr 6:00 PM

Hit BBC documentary series Planet Earth has been bought by a US TV company, but its narrator Sir David Attenborough will be replaced by actress Sigourney Weaver.

The rather unlikely casting by the Discover Channel is sure to raise a few eyebrows, as Weaver's voice is a far cry from Attenborough's whispered commentary on animals, flora and fauna.

Let's just hope that Weaver, who did after all star in '80s film Gorillas In The Mist, doesn't revert into her Alien - Ripley character, and verbally blast all those poor endangered species into outer space.