Longleat…Back On TV!
27th February 2011
Longleat will be back in our living rooms from Monday 28th February as the popular CBBC programme, ROAR, commences a run of thirty-five programmes.
Produced by Remarkable Television, an Endemol company, this is the seventh series of ROAR but is the first to be set from this world famous Wiltshire safari park.
In this series, presenters Johny Pitts and Rani Price have an ‘access all areas’ pass giving viewers a unique ringside seat as they follow the everyday dramas and dangers facing keepers and vets as they care for some of the world’s most endangered animals.
Ian Turner, Deputy Head Warden advised “It was wonderful to have the film crews back in to give a real behind the scenes look at what goes on here at Longleat. Life in a safari park is never going to be your normal 9 to 5 job from working with dangerous animals to mucking out tonnes of dung!
“Every day is different and it was great to welcome Johny and Rani into the fold and to see them really getting their hands dirty!”
The series covers a whole range of animal stories from Riley, a baby sea lion who at just 3 days old, attempts his first deep water swim. There’s life-and-death drama as the keepers try and rescue new-born baby otters and must hand rear them if they are to survive whilst Imogen, the giraffe, is expecting a baby, but the vet fears complications could threaten her life and that of her unborn calf.
The Roar Rangers don’t get off lightly either. Their hands get very dirty as they become trainee keepers and learn to scoop one thing that the park is never short of, poo!
CBBC Roar will commence at 0800hrs on Monday 28th February and will be aired from Monday to Friday for 7-weeks.