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Rootsy influence

Butch Walker, in his album, Over the Holidays and Under the Influence, reigns happily over what sounds like a raucous, rootsy live-in-the-studio romp through eight Christmas standards, all secular pop hits including Winter Wonderland and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. The vibe is celebratory, and everybody keeps things joyously spontaneous.

TV

Blue Planet II

Over the last few hundred years, many important things have been discovered about our planet. It's surprising then to be reminded that there's a part of this planet that we know little about. And this part is the world beneath Earth's oceans and seas, which covers over 70 percent of the planet. That world is largely what Shakespeare's Hamlet called an "undiscovered country". In 2001, the BBC made a nature documentary The Blue Planet, which took viewers down to the depths of the ocean. Sixteen years later, Blue Planet II has been launched and is now broadcast on China's live-streaming site Tencent.

In the new series, the cameras tell stories about marine lives that viewers would enjoy just as much as the animated characters found in the Disney film Finding Nemo.

China Daily - Agencies