Apple Picks Up 'Extrapolations' Series on Climate Change for Apple TV+

[MacRumors]

"Extrapolations," an upcoming anthology series about climate change, is coming to Apple TV+, reports Variety. The series was created by Scott Z. Burns, who is writing, directing, and executive producing.

The show will tell "intimate, unanticipated stories" about how changes to the planet will affect "love, faith, work, and family on a personal and human scale." The series will feature 10 interconnected episodes.

"Most of the storytelling around climate change has focused on the science and getting people to accept it," said Burns. "Our aim with 'Extrapolations' is to move beyond science and use drama, comedy, mystery and every other genre to allow us to consider how every aspect of our world is going to be changing in the years ahead. We know the climate is going to change - 'Extrapolations' asks, can we change, too?"

Burns' prior work includes climate change documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," and "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power." He has also worked on movies that include "Contagion," "Side Effects," and "The Laundromat."

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[BF1M]

We get it Apple, humans suck.

 

[entropys]

Always in the future. For the last forty years.

 

[Jxdawg]

In before the “just more left wing trash from ATV+” comments.

 

[orbital~debris]

We get it Apple, humans suck.

The positivity is all around, if you look for it.

Things can’t be improved until people identify & accept the problems.

 

[jz0309]

hope this is European content, otherwise, sorry, you will be banned there ... though Europeans are far more environmentally active than the US Americans ...

 

[derekamoss]

Just what I wanted, ANOTHER documentary series. Proving again Apple TV+ doesn't need good genre TV series or movies to work. Besides they make enough off the Apple Pods to keep Apple TV+ afloat forever anyways. /s

 

[jimbobb24]

hope this is European content, otherwise, sorry, you will be banned there ... though Europeans are far more environmentally active than the US Americans ...

Go check out CO2 emissions per GDP trend line. France does great with nuclear. US is doing fine comparatively.

 

[DanielDD]

hope this is European content, otherwise, sorry, you will be banned there ... though Europeans are far more environmentally active than the US Americans ...

Why would it be banned here?

 

[now i see it]

and exactly what is the point of this show? Entertainment? Preaching? Propaganda?

 

[BWhaler]

Looks great.

AppleTV + is a no-brainer purchase IMHO. Not every show is a winner, but there are a lot of gems.

 

[jz0309]

Why would it be banned here?

take a look at this article, on MacRumors, today:
Apple TV+ Could Face Ban in Europe Unless It Meets Proposed Requirement of 30% European Content

 

[Duane Martin]

and exactly what is the point of this show? Entertainment? Preaching? Propaganda?

Or perhaps education? You know, for those of us that do not already know everything.

 

[derekamoss]

Or perhaps education? You know, for those of use that do not already know everything.

And why should we have to suffer for your failures? /s =)

 

[Yojimbo007]

We get it Apple, humans suck.

....and u want to remedy the situation... reduce the human population... thats is the culprit... not all these politicaly driven rants!

 

[Yojimbo007]

I WONT SUBJECT MYSELF TO ANOTHER POLITICALLY DRIVEN BULL

GIVE IT A BREAK APPLE OR YOU WILL ALIENATE COUTLESS PEOPLE ...

OR ***** FIND A WAY TO REDUCE HUMAN POPULATION..... START WITH YOUR SELVES!

 

[entropys]

I think you have exceeded the sites capitalised font budget for the day, Yojimbo.

 

[blackcrayon]

I WONT SUBJECT MYSELF TO ANOTHER POLITICALLY DRIVEN BULL

GIVE IT A BREAK APPLE OR YOU WILL ALIENATE COUTLESS PEOPLE ...

OR ***** FIND A WAY TO REDUCE HUMAN POPULATION..... START WITH YOUR SELVES!

But you'll subject us to your all caps rant about it...

 

[Ar40]

BOO!! This is pissing me off Apple. First Hillary, now Climate change? WTF. Take a chill and stop with the political agenda.

 

[Mansu944]

It’s good to have a fiction category I guess to fill out their library.

 

[orbital~debris]

BOO!! This is pissing me off Apple. First Hillary, now Climate change? WTF. Take a chill and stop with the political agenda.

Climate change. Political. Oh dear…

Feel so sorry for all the people who have been blinkered into thinking the issue is political instead of way, way more important than any one country’s party’s ideological agenda.

 

[JosephAW]

Make sure the videos are stored on renewable energy servers.

 

[eatrains]

You can tell that rightwing brainwashing has reached a zenith when a show about climate change is somehow offensive.

 

[mw360]

Tiresome leftwing propaganda. How can there be global warming if the Earth isn't a globe? Answer me that, globists. The moon is flat too, that's how we know the Apollo missions were fakes, despite what For All Mankind desperately wants us to believe. You must think we're all idiots.

 

[seinman]

Make sure the videos are stored on renewable energy servers.

I'm pretty sure all of Apple's data centers are already powered by renewables, or they will be soon.

Edit: yup. "Since 2014, all of Apple’s data centers have been powered by 100 percent renewable energy. And since 2011, all of Apple's renewable energy projects have reduced greenhouse gas emissions (CO2e) by 54 percent from its facilities worldwide and prevented nearly 2.1 million metric tons of CO2e from entering the atmosphere." from https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/04/apple-now-globally-powered-by-100-percent-renewable-energy/