Frozen Planet fakery row Polar bear filmed in zoo

 Frozen Planet’s eight million devoted fans will not take kindly to being left out in the cold.


It emerged yesterday a key scene from the hit BBC series showing a polar bear tending her newborn cubs was filmed in a zoo using fake snow.

Mixing real Arctic shots with zoo scenes, documentary makers fooled the audience into believing the footage was gathered by intrepid cameramen in the brutal sub-zero wilderness.


It was actually filmed from the comfort of a wildlife park enclosure using bears in a man-made wood den.

During the carefully worded Frozen Planet commentary, Sir David Attenborough’s script failed to explain how the moving scene was made.

The truth behind the trickery is only revealed in a hard-to-find video among dozens of clips on the BBC website.