Bangkok--20 Mar--Image Impact Thailand premiere Sunday, March 23, 2008 at 6:00pm The History Channel Presents Record-Breaking Special, Life After PeopleMost watched and highest rated telecast ever on The History Channel, this two-hour special looks through history’s lens to provide clues to what would happen if humans vanished from the Earth What would happen to planet earth if the human race were to suddenly disappear forever? Would ecosystems thrive? What remnants of our industrialized world would survive? What would crumble fastest? From the ruins of ancient civilizations to present day cities devastated by natural disasters, history gives us clues to these questions and many more in the visually stunning and thought-provoking new special, Life After People. Having garnered the network’s largest audience ever of 5.4 million viewers in the United States of America (USA), Life After People explores what the world would be like without humans. Be sure to catch this exclusive broadcast of the two-hour special on Sunday, 23 March, 2008 at 6.00pm, only on The History Channel (TrueVisions Channel A23 or D44). Abandoned skyscrapers would after hundreds of years, become “vertical ecosystems” complete with birds, rodents and even plant life. A particular small animal might be responsible for bringing down the Hoover Dam hydroelectric plant. Swelled rivers, crumbling bridges and buildings, grizzly bears in California and herds of buffalo returning to the Great Western Plains: in a world without humans, these would be the visual hallmarks. Our cars would shrivel to piles of dust, our house pets would be overtaken by flourishing wildlife, and most of the records of our human story — books, photos, records — world fade quickly, leaving little record that we ever existed. Using feature film quality visual effects and top experts in the fields of engineering, botany, ecology, biology, geology, climatology, and archeology, Life After People provides an amazing visual journey through the ultimately hypothetical. The 1986 nuclear power plant accident at Chernobyl and its aftermath provides a riveting and emotional case study of what can happen after humans have moved on. Life After People goes to remote islands off the coast of Maine to search for traces of abandoned towns, beneath the streets of New York to see how subway tunnels may become watery canals, to the Montana wilderness to divine the destiny of the bears and wolves. Humans won’t be around forever, and now we can see in detail, for the very first time, the world that will be left behind in Life After People. Life After People is produced by Flight 33 Productions for The History Channel. Executive Producers for The History Channel are Dirk Hoogstra and Susan Werbe. The History Channel brought to you in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Thailand by AETN All Asia Networks Pte. Ltd., a joint venture between A&E Television Networks (AETN) and ASTRO ALL ASIA NETWORKS plc. About The History Channel Representing the very best in factual entertainment, The History Channel offers compelling original, non-fiction specials and series that cover a variety of topics, including ancient history, contemporary history, military history and conflict, technology and transport. Now available in over 130 territories in more than 230 million TV households, The History Channel is the only international television network devoted exclusively to bringing history to life in a powerful and entertaining manner across multiple platforms. The network provides an inviting place where viewers experience history in new and exiting ways, enabling them to experience history personally and connect their lives today to the great lives and events of the past. For more information, please log onto www.historychannelasia.com. About AETN All Asia Networks AETN All Asia Networks Pte. Ltd. (AAAN) is a joint venture between A&E Television Networks (AETN) and ASTRO All Asia Entertainment Networks Limited — a subsidiary of ASTRO ALL ASIA NETWORKS plc (ASTRO). AAAN builds and operate branded channels and services across South East Asia, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Headquartered in Singapore, AAAN also has operations in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. AETN All Asia Networks launched The History Channel and Crime & Investigation Network? on June 15, 2007 in Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand and will round out to Indonesia, The Philippines and Taiwan in Q2 and Q3 2008. The History Channel and Crime & Investigation Network will be fully language-versioned in Bahasa Malaysia, Thai and Chinese. AETN All Asia Networks also plans to launch The Biography Channel? and The History Channel HD in the region, and to deploy the brands and programming via VOD, mobile, and broadband. For further information, please contact: Felicia Ang AETN All Asia Networks Tel: (65) 6837 8916 E-Mail: [email protected] Chutinun Guna-Tilaka Image Impact Ltd. Tel: 0-2253-6810-1 ext. 118 E-Mail: [email protected]