The most popular TV programmes requested include David Attenborough series Africa, Top Gear and Miranda.
Lord Attenborough paid tribute to Closing the Ring's "wonderful cast", singling out west Belfast actor Marty McCann.
It added that the research was carried out by a member of the production team, not Attenborough.
Lord Attenborough, the chairman of Dragon International Studios, said work on the main studio complex would start before October 2005.
The channel also had a very famous face as its controller between 1965 and 1968 - Sir David Attenborough.
"I couldn't be more proud and pleased to take over the chair vacated by the inimitable Lord Attenborough, " Fry continued.
In fact David Attenborough was the only person who appeared to want the BBC to survive in any viable form.
Some firms specialising in African holidays said they had seen a 300% rise in enquiries since the Attenborough series started.
The 10th annual Dumfries and Galloway Wild Spring Festival is hoping to find the next Chris Packham or Sir David Attenborough.
Previous recipients of the BFI Fellowship include Lord Attenborough, Sir Michael Caine, Clint Eastwood, Bernardo Bertolucci, Martin Scorsese and Dame Maggie Smith.
The carrier craft is being flight tested, and SpaceShipTwo's flight tests are expected to begin at the end of this year, Attenborough said.
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Naturalist Sir David Attenborough and the Queen are the greatest living British man and woman, according to readers of Best of British magazine.
Guests on the show were to have been Sir David Attenborough, comedian Frank Skinner, US teen singer Miley Cyrus and band The Killers.
The 53-year-old inherits his role at the Criterion Theatre Trust from Lord Attenborough, the previous chair of the registered charity set up in 1992.
Previous recipients of the BIFF Lifetime Achievement Award include John Hurt, Jean Simmons, Barbara Windsor, Claire Bloom, Ken Loach, Jack Cardiff and Richard Attenborough.
As host of Private Passions, Berkeley has interviewed more than 700 guests including artist David Hockney, naturalist Sir David Attenborough and musician Elvis Costello.
"To be able to have something like SpaceCraftTwo to put scientists in space ... at a relatively low cost, it's transforming for science, " Attenborough said.
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The BBC has re-edited the final episode of David Attenborough's nature series, Africa, on BBC One to remove a piece of commentary about climate change.
Suddenly the laid back David Attenborough look is no longer appropriate.
Modern-day explorers John Blashford-Snell and Sir David Attenborough will also attend.
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Some shots in that programme, narrated by Sir David Attenborough, were filmed in a Dutch zoo, but many viewers assumed footage came from the Arctic.
"We don't want to lose some of the traditions of the sport, but we need to make sure it is relevant to younger adults, " said Attenborough.
I've downloaded an episode of David Attenborough's Frozen Planet in about a minute and viewed YouTube videos in the middle of London without a hint of buffering.
Mr Wormell said David Attenborough had been to Durrell in Jersey a number of times and knows the charity focused on tamarins for a number of years.
With Jeff Goldblum, Laura Dern, Sam Neill, and Richard Attenborough.
To explain the pressures many endangered species face from humans, Attenborough came face-to-face with a baby rhinoceros in Kenya, whose horn had been removed to protect him from poachers.
In 2011, the BBC denied misleading viewers of Attenborough's frozen planet series with footage of newborn polar bear cubs filmed in an animal park, rather than in the wild.
The company has also confirmed that since Sir David Attenborough's 'Africa' began showing on BBC 1 there has been a sharp rise in interest in holidays to the continent.
Apart from Sir Richard Attenborough and his wife Sheila Sim in the original cast, the play goes against West End tradition, making a point of not signing big names.
When enacting laws for species conservation, for example, "you have to know what animal you're talking about or you're going to be in trouble, " says David Attenborough, the British naturalist.
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