Africa (2013)

[McCrutchy]

Africa Blu-ray

This is airing right now in the US on the Discovery Channel, but there are some inconsistencies with the UK version product details. For one, there is only one edition of this series being made available in the US, and the Discovery Channel airings have narration by Forest Whitaker and not David Attenborough. To be clear, David Attenborough is apparently still in the episode "Africa: The Future" in the US version, because he physically appears in this episode.

The US version also appears to have re-edited the series in some way for broadcast, as it is seven episodes instead of six (I read something about the making of portions at the end of each UK episode being cut out and combined into a seventh episode?) and finally, the US version is listed by Discovery as being two discs, while the UK version apparently has three discs according to the BBC shop.

Our news article seems to believe that the US Blu-ray will have the Attenborough narration and be only six episodes, but then I would have to question why Discovery bothered to re-record narration and re-edit the program if the intention was to just release the original UK version on the US market.

Can anyone with an advance copy confirm exactly what is on the US Blu-ray set?