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MUMBAI:
Love, power, murder and intrigue - sounds like the making of a drama-filled
soap opera, but this is the reality of life in Meerkat Manor. The
world's favourite mammals return to Animal Planet in a new season
of the hugely popular Meerkat Manor. Winner of numerous awards including
two Omni Intermedia Awards and Gold Worldmedal winner at the New
York Festivals, the first series of Meerkat Manor proved to be a
worldwide sensation. The new 13-part series narrated by Bill Nighy
(of Love Actually; Girl in the Café), Meerkat Manor follows
the everyday lives of a precocious group of meerkats as they fight
for dominance and survival in Africa's Kalahari Desert. Beginning
12th October, Meerkat Manor will air every Friday at 11 pm and repeat
every Saturday at 6 pm.
Following
the everyday life - from family squabbles to love affairs - of a
unique gang of meerkats, Animal Planet presents an intimate portrait
of these curious and entertaining creatures as they live their lives
in Africa's Kalahari Desert. Now, the endearing Whiskers mob of
meerkats is back after making it through a year of triumph and tragedy,
mischief and mayhem. This second season of Meerkat Manor features
the return of the rival gang of meerkats, the Lazuli, and introduces
a new enemy group - the Commandoes, led by the one-eyed Hanibal.
 In
this second season of Meerkat Manor, viewers continue to follow
the real-life drama of this unique cast of characters. The main
protagonists are 12-inches high, live underground in burrows and
survive on a diet of worms, insects and lizards. Capturing their
everyday life, season two of Meerkat Manor picks up where the first
13 episodes left off to follow the Whiskers' latest adventures.
In its new episodes, the Whiskers are joined by a whole new cast
of friends and enemies. The latest goings-on at Meerkat Manor include
a fight between the hapless Youssarian and two roving Whiskers males
as they vie for the attention of Cazanna - the dominant female of
the rival Lazuli mob; the introduction of a new enemy group - the
Commandoes - who live in close proximity to the Whiskers and incur
a vicious fight for territory; another eviction for Mozart by her
mother and group leader Flower; a dangerous encounter between Flower
and her pups and their enemies, the Commandoes; and pregnancies
for both Flower and Mozart, which can only lead to one thing: trouble
at the Manor!
Filmed
in cooperation with Cambridge University, Animal Planet presents
the story of a meerkat mob unlike ever before - from the perspective
of the meerkats themselves. With no humans featured on film, crews
were housed in specially built sheds and successfully filmed within
meerkat burrows using fiber-optic cameras. Meerkat Manor captures
every facet of meerkat life in a fun, informative and always engaging
way.
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