Animal Planet should be commended for the ambition of Taking on Tyson : a beautifully shot series about Mike Tyson’s actual, real-life love for pigeons. Unfortunately, the series was boring, sometimes excruciatingly so, never mind repetitive, and its six hours should have been condensed into one 90-minute documentary. The fact that this quasi-review is being published weeks after it concluded is indicative of how it just failed to capture my attention: I even forgot to publish this. Animal Planet ended up burning off the final two hours of the series on April 4, a week and a day after its four episode aired. It’d be unfair to expect this series to have the visceral intensity and tension of Whale Wars , but it is fair to expect it to move forward. Instead, in the first hour alone, the show doubled back on itself so much that not only can you see why it’s just a six-hour series, but you also wonder how they’ve managed to stretch all of this to six hours. Repeatably saying something is i...