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Meerkat Manor

2005 · 4 seasons · 24m per episode · Documentary, Drama

Meerkat Manor is a British television programme produced by Oxford Scientific Films for Animal Planet International that premiered in September 2005 and ran for four series until its cancellation in August 2008. Blending more traditional animal documentary style footage with dramatic narration, the series told the story of the Whiskers, one of more than a dozen families of meerkats in the Kalahari Desert being studied as part of the Kalahari Meerkat Project, a long-term field study into the ecological causes and evolutionary consequences of the cooperative nature of meerkats. The original programme was narrated by Bill Nighy, with the narration redubbed by Mike Goldman for the Australian airings and Sean Astin for the American broadcasts. The fourth series, subtitled The Next Generation, saw Stockard Channing replacing Astin as the narrator in the American dubbing.

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Seasons

• Season 1 — 13 episodes (June 9, 2006)
• Season 2 — 13 episodes (September 29, 2006)
• Season 3 — 13 episodes (August 10, 2007)
• The Next Generation — 13 episodes (June 6, 2008)

Cast

• Bill Nighy as Narrator
• Stockard Channing as Narrator
• Sean Astin as Narrator

Details

Created by

Caroline Hawkins

First aired

September 2, 2005

Episodes

52

Genres

Documentary, Drama

Network

Animal Planet and Animal Planet

Status

Ended

TMDB score

7.6 / 10 from 17 votes