Overview
- Secret Garden debuted Sunday with an episode set at a thousand-year-old mill-house garden in Oxfordshire where the owners, Henry and Sara, let the grounds grow wilder to help wildlife.
- The opener follows everyday species up close, including a mallard named Doris raising nine ducklings, bank voles hunted by grass snakes, a kingfisher threatened by rising water, and swarms of mayflies.
- Viewers praised the first episode for its striking cinematography and welcomed Sir David Attenborough’s return to narration.
- Producer Bill Markham said Attenborough’s involvement, as he nears his 100th birthday, felt momentous and pushed the team to raise the standard of every frame and line.
- The series is a five-part run on BBC One and iPlayer, with outlets listing Sunday broadcasts but giving different times, including 6pm in one preview and 8pm in another report.