Animal Icons Friday 8/26 8PM EST Animal Planet

[Joe Manzo]

The title says it all:

Animal Icons Friday 8PM EST Animal Planet August 26!

www.starwars.com/episode-iii/release/publicity/animalicons.html

Watch it for STAR WARS "Animals" Learn where each wonderful alien has its roots in a real life animal (well not all of them, but the main ones I assume)

Many of the fantastical creatures found in the Star Wars saga are actually based off of animals found in our own galaxy. Watch "Animal Icons: Star Wars Creatures" airing May 18, at 9 p.m. ET, (6 p.m. PT) on Animal Planet to discover which animals inspired the likes of Wookiees, Ewoks, varactyls, nexu, reek and more.

To read more about "Animal Icons: Star Wars Creatures," an Animal Planet special produced to celebrate the Episode III release, click here.

For more information on the "Animal Icons" series, visit the official Animal Planet site here.

Looks like it aired first May 18th or so...

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I saw bits of that and other Discovery Channel shows with similar themes. Like "The Science of Star Wars", how Star Wars has influenced the science and tech of today, etc.

They are really quite weak.

They really have to stretch and reach to make the animals and science fit Star Wars and they use clips from the past 8 zillion years of the various channels. Kinda like those clip shows sitcoms have when they don't want to write anything.

It was all a gimmic to tie into Sith's release.

[malform]

This is going to be on in May of 2006? in 9 months?... They really started early promotion :\

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No, it was on this past may, to go with the release of Ep. 3.