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November 28 - December 4—3 The Greeneville Sun, Greeneville, TN The Greeneville Sun, Greeneville, TN November 28 - December 4, 2020 — 3 2 x 3.5" ad a) greene cnty farmers b) swango's 2 x 4" ad williams electric 2 x 1.5" ad ymca 2 x 1.5" ad doughty stevens 2 x 1.5" ad midway const. By George Dickie Most people's experience with nocturnal animal behavior extends to a screech from the woods or a critter ransacking their trash. But "The Earth at Night in Color" paints the whole brilliant picture of what really happens after the sun sets. Premiering Friday, Dec. 4, on Apple TV+, the series follows camera crews to six continents to capture previously unseen and, in some cases, unknown animal behaviors using next-generation equipment, low-light photog- raphy and painstaking postpro- duction. So in the six episodes, viewers will be treated to scenes such as a lioness searching for her missing cub on Kenya's Masai Mara grasslands, tiny pri- mates tarsiers foraging for food while protecting their babies in Indonesia, peregrine falcons on the hunt amid the skyscrapers of Chicago and a young brown bear clashing with wolves in the boreal forests of Europe. Of course, any wildlife pho- tographer will tell you waiting for the right shot to develop on a snowy hillside or a grassy plain takes an investment of days or weeks and a lot of patience and endurance but "Earth" executive producer Alex Williamson says those challenges are multiplied tenfold when working at night. "Just finding the animals is difficult enough," he says, "so just knowing which direction to point the cameras can be tough. Focus, following them. The animals are more skittish. I think the animals are not expecting hu- mans to be out there during the night so they're much more wary. "We have one scene that fol- lowed pumas in Patagonia over many months," he continues, "and (the film crew) walked on foot. So when we're filming lions, obviously you film from the safety of a Land Rover. They followed the big cats on foot over the mountains and through the night for night after night, and getting close to those big predatory cats is not for the faint-hearted." Celebrity Scoop Celebrity Scoop The animals come out to play in Apple's 'The Earth at Night in Color' Cover Story Cover Story By George Dickie Conventional wisdom has it that for an actor to be able to play a char- acter, they have find some common ground with them. For Grayson Gurnsey, who plays bar back Ricky in the dra- ma series "Virgin River," current- ly streaming its second season on Netflix, that wasn't difficult. "He reminds me a lot of how I was when I was young," the 20-year-old Calgary native explains, "in the way that he would interact with girls and the way he would be very shy. 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