Film Promotions
On April 1, 2008 rival newspapers The Daily Telegraph and The Daily Mirror both published articles about the upcoming film.The Mirror ran the story on its front page, and in The Daily Telegraph the story was one of the most important of the day.The Daily Telegraph proclaimed that the BBC had "remarkable footage of penguins flying as part of its new natural history series, Miracles of Evolution."
Chris Tryhorn, a news editor for The Guardian, admitted that the story "gave him pause for thought" when two of his rivals, The Daily Mirror and The Daily Telegraph, published synchronized stories on such an important discovery. Chris said that he started to put the pieces together based upon the publication date, Monty Python's Terry Jones being the host and the film maker being called Prof Alid Loyas. Chris realized after noticing that Prof Alid Loyas was an anagram of "April Fools Day"
The Daily Mirror later published an explanation for its readers who were waiting for the documentary to be broadcast on BBC One.
The trailer can still be found on the BBC website, however it is viewed using the BBC iPlayer, which is only available to Internet users accessing from British IP addresses. It can also be found on YouTube.
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