'Abandoned Planet' series in development

[jefferiestubes8]

Abandoned Planet

Explore the strangest places on earth – entire cities now completely devoid of all humanity. This series of one-hour programs sheds light on why people have abandoned the places they once called home and what happens after they leave. Produced by Flight 33 Productions.

It will air on the Discovery, Imax and Sony owned 3-D channel launching in 2011.

This sounds rather cool.
I'm sure one of the cities will be Prypiat, a city larger and closer to the power plant, had been built as home for the Chernobyl disaster power plant workers.

Though the city today is mostly uninhabited, a small number of inhabitants reside in houses marked with signs stating that the "Owner of this house lives here". Workers on watch and administrative personnel of the Zone of Alienation are stationed in the city on a long term basis. Prior to its evacuation, the city was inhabited by about 14,000 residents.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl was a videogame that was a non-linear sandbox game. Players are relatively free to explore the world.

based on the real-life Zone of Alienation and partly on the settings of the source novel and film. It encompasses roughly 30 square kilometers and features a slice of Chernobyl extending south from Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant; geographical changes for artistic license include moving the city of Prypiat into this area (it is actually to the north-west of the power station), although the city itself is directly modeled on its real-life counterpart, albeit smaller in size.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat was a 2010 videogame sequel.

The game takes place in and around the city of Pripyat.

I'm sure the rest will be on this list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ghost_towns

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Abandoned Planet

Explore the strangest places on earth – entire cities now completely devoid of all humanity.

Downtown DC on a Sunday evening.

 

[jefferiestubes8]

Abandoned Planet

Explore the strangest places on earth – entire cities now completely devoid of all humanity.

Downtown DC on a Sunday evening.

downtown Los Angeles in The Omega Man.
on a Sunday morning in 1970.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

And this is different from Life After People... HOW, exactly?

 

[jefferiestubes8]

And this is different from Life After People... HOW, exactly?

Referencing the show you mention:

Life After People is a television documentary series where scientists and other experts speculate about what the Earth might be like if humanity no longer existed, as well as the impact humanity's disappearance might have on the environment and the artificial aspects of civilization. The program premiered as a two hour special on January 21, 2008 on the History Channel[1] which served as a de facto pilot for the series that premiered April 21, 2009.

The series' episodes thematically offer examples of structural and biological decay focusing on specific locations (such as religious icons, bridges and dams, and government buildings), and the fate of certain related objects (such as artifacts, documents and human bodies). The fate of specific kinds of flora and fauna are covered as well. Each episode also contains a segment in which experts examine real locations that have been abandoned by people, including ghost towns and other sites of deterioration.

Each episode also contains a segment in which experts examine real locations

Someone over at Discovery figured they could make an entire episode around a location rather than a segment...
According to the original 'Abandoned Planet' article

This series of one-hour programs sheds light on why people have abandoned the places they once called home and what happens after they leave.

This series will be city-centric on a case-by-case basis one would assume.
Also it will be in 3-D on a channel owned partially by Discovery & Sony, not A&E Networks who own History Channel.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

And this is different from Life After People... HOW, exactly?

Life After People is a fictional series based on the premise that humanity has vanished and using that as a springboard to examine the durability and interconnectivity of the many kinds of systems our civilization has built.

This series is a documentary about places that actually exist, today.

 

[Christopher]

Wouldn't it make more sense (and be less misleading) if they called it Abandoned Cities, then?

 

[jefferiestubes8]

Re: 'Abandoned Planet' title

Wouldn't it make more sense (and be less misleading) if they called it Abandoned Cities, then?

Discovery Channel co-produced the Planet Earth produced by the BBC Natural History Unit co-produced by the Discovery Channel and NHK in association with CBC.

Discovery Networks also own two TV networks with Planet in the title:
Animal Planet & Planet Green
It is a brand and they are building on that by including Planet in their title of a series.

 

[Christopher]

Figured it was something like that. Still doesn't mean it makes sense.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

It's called "advertising and promotion." Remarkably, mass media do a great deal of it.

 

[Christopher]

^Yes, and it rarely makes much sense.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Abandoned Planet

Explore the strangest places on earth – entire cities now completely devoid of all humanity.

Downtown DC on a Sunday evening.

Or Milwaukee on a Saturday night.


There are potentially many more ghost towns & abandoned cities that aren't on any list.

I have a death certificate for my grandfather. It has either Rain City or Ruin City, Mich. for his mother's birthplace.

Neither name appears anywhere I have ever found, though it could be incorrect information given by someone who wasn't certain.

 

[bigdaddy]

Abandoned Planet
Downtown DC on a Sunday evening.

Or Milwaukee on a Saturday night.


There are potentially many more ghost towns & abandoned cities that aren't on any list.

I have a death certificate for my grandfather. It has either Rain City or Ruin City, Mich. for his mother's birthplace.

Neither name appears anywhere I have ever found, though it could be incorrect information given by someone who wasn't certain.

In that case Ruin City sounds about right.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Ohh, I like the concept. I've always been fascinated by ghost towns. There's a lot of history one can learn from their surroundings and the decisions that were made that led up to them being deserted. There was a Canadian series about ghost towns that I liked a lot, so this should be up my alley.

Here's a neat website featuring lots of pictures:

http://www.ghosttownpix.com/

Here's one near me:

Creighton Mine, also known as simply Creighton, is a ghost town located near the intersection of Municipal Road 24 and Highway 144. The community, established in 1900 as an Inco company town, took its name from the geographic township in which it is located, which was named by the province of Ontario in the 1880s for MPP David Creighton.
In 1986, the town was closed down. INCO deemed the cost of service upgrades (water, sewer, etc.) to be prohibitive, and all of the town's homes and businesses were torn down or moved to Lively. The historic paymaster's cabin from Creighton was moved to the Anderson Farm Museum. A few streets, sidewalks and building foundations can still be found in the area.[2] A monument, shown at right, was also placed in the community.
Creighton Mine is the largest Ontario community to have become a ghost town, although the mine itself is still operational.[3] The mine is also the site of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory.

http://www.ontarioabandonedplaces.com/creighton/creighton2.asp

 

[captcalhoun]

Prypriat also appeared in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare...

 

[Reverend]

I happen to live just a few miles from the abandoned village of Imber. Only ever seen it from a distance as it's too dangerous to enter. Still very creepy though. I think there's another just like it down on the south coast somewhere.

 

[Deckerd]

I would have thought the Meso and South American abandoned cities would be a good group to explore. Some of them are vast. Also there's Herculaneum and Pompeii, although there isn't much mystery around why they were abandoned.