The Discovery Channel, which helped bring you the almost-too-awesome Planet Earth and Blue Planet mega-epics, has announced that June 4 will be the launch date for a new television channel, Planet Green. We can assume that the channel’s name gives a pretty good description of what it’s all about. At takepart we’ve already told you that Adrian Grenier, the dude from Entourage who isn’t the brother of the dude from The Outsiders, is working on a show for the network. We’ve also mentioned that Tom Bergeron, who apparently hosts Dancing With the Stars (but I only know from post-Fugelsang/Fuentes era America’s Funniest Home Videos), will also have his own program. Yet there’s already so much more to love about this station, which is why I’m bringing you The Top 5 Things You Will Love about Planet Green, in no particular order.
1. Tommy Lee and Ludacris are in a show together. No. Seriously. Rock “star” Tommy Lee and rapper Ludacris will be starring in Battleground Earth (no, not Battlefield. That was something even more surreal), which will have the two of them “pushed to the limit as they attempt to keep their high-wattage acts on an eco-friendly course.” Sweet sassy molasses, yes. Yes, yes, yes.
2. The channel’s so eco-friendly, even the server the website is on is solar. When you click to the channel’s website (which doubles as the press kit), you are given the choice of viewing the “green” version of the site, or the “greener” version. I choose “greener.” Per the site,
You are viewing the “greener” version of this electronic press kit, which means it still gets the job done but requires even less energy than its “green” sister. Also hosted on a 100% solar-powered server, this version takes a few more energy saving steps. Other than the Planet Green logo (we wouldn’t want you to forget where you are!) images on this site appear only when you ask them to. Displaying fewer images minimizes server interaction and helps to save a few bytes.
As far as I can tell, there is not a paper version of the press kit. Take that, Gutenberg, and the printing press you rode in on.
3. Bill Nye is coming back to television. I was always a Mr. Wizard guy over a Beakman’s World guy. I mean, there’s a guy in a rat costume talking about science? I don’t get it. That’s why Bill Nye was always more my style. He had some frivolity, sure, but you were going to learn something, dammit! Green Planet has wrangled Bill Nye for a show existentially titled Stuff Happens. I don’t even care what stuff that is, as long as Nye is the one explaining it. But seriously, the show sounds awesome.
STUFF HAPPENS host Emmy® Award-winning Bill Nye (scientist, engineer, comedian, author, and inventor) unlocks the secret lives of everyday things before and after we consume them, and reveals the unintended consequences of all the stuff we take for granted. As each item’s life cycle is investigated and uncovered, Bill shows how simple and easy changes can reduce the environmental cost of things we love.
Bill Nye, truly the Steve Allen of our generation. Except more science-y.
4. Honorary Advisory Board Members include Jeff Corwin, Terri Irwin, and Phillipe Cousteau. These are, if you don’t recognize them, some very big names in the nature conservation movement. Really heavy hitters. Provided people like this are giving their input to the channel, we can expect to see some terrific nature footage.
5. They even gave Tom Green a show. A game show. I actually watched, of my own volition, Road Trip last night. Didn’t even know I was going to be posting about Tom Green today. For the record, I don’t recall college happening quite like it did in that movie. Just saying. Regardless, I assume they gave him the show by merit of his last name. Which I suppose is good enough for me.
I could go on and on forever about all the awesome things this channel will have to offer, but why don’t you 
and cruise on over to the website and check it out? And talk to your cable company to see if they’ll be carrying the network, and request it if they’re not. And remind me come June to actually get cable.
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