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Viewers can go on a fascinating exploration of the sea floor and its inhabitants, 540 million years ago, via a new virtual reality presentation, narrated by David Attenborough, which premiered Thursday at London’s Natural History Museum and opens Friday. David Attenborough’s First Life will be presented by the museum with partners Samsung, which is providing Samsung Vr Gear headsets with Samsung Galaxy S6 smartphones to deliver the experience, and Atlantic Productions and its Vr studio Alchemy Vr, which produced the 15-minute CG experience. Read More Fox Sports, NextVR to Demo Live Virtual Reality Experience for U.S. Open At the museum, where First Life is

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British broadcasting icon Sir David Attenborough returns to our TV screens this week, fronting the sequel to his hit 2010 series First Life.

David Attenborough's Rise of Animals follows the evolution of vertebrates over the past 500 million years and like all of the naturalist's projects, it makes utterly compelling television.

Digital Spy was lucky enough to have a quick interview with Attenborough about the show, his life and why you'll never hear him talking to us about margarine.

On Monday mornings

"I used to have an office job at the BBC for eight years. Monday morning was Monday morning then. But you're right, Monday isn't particularly Monday morning any more. I'm very lucky in that sense."

On returning to China for his new show

"It's changed hugely. When I first went it was a very, very alien place. So I was intrigued to go back this time and in many ways it was depressingly Europeanised.

The 32nd Annual Emmy Awards for News & Documentary took place at New York City’s Frederick P. Rose Hall on Monday night, and CBS walked away the biggest victor of the evening, with 10 wins. Larry King was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award for his decades-spanning career in broadcasting, including 25 years of Larry King Live. King was presented with the award by NBC anchor Brian Williams, who King cited alongside Dan Rather as one of his “two favorite people.” An emotional King told the audience, “I was lucky enough to be in a business where I really didn’t have to work.

Lip Service

Oh, "Lip Service," how do I love thee? Let me count the ways. 1. You're completely terrible and I love to laugh at you. 2. Oh dear, there's only one way, and it's that one I just listed. The laughing-at-it way. But honestly, it really is genuinely hilarious and I suppose, if I'm honest, it has picked up since its first episode which, thanks to the BBC's re-watch service, I can now watch over and over and over to make myself laugh.

It all starts when Shane... sorry, I mean Frankie. It's a completely different character to Shane from "The L Word," completely different. She's called Frankie, for a start, which is a totally different name to "Shane" -- and she's a sexy butch dyke with a short, choppy haircut, jeans, a leather jacket, dark eye make-up and slouchy body language. Oh yeah that's right, now I think about it...