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Meerkat Manor

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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.

Created byCaroline Hawkins

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Status
Ended
Language
EN
First aired
September 2, 2005
Last aired
August 22, 2008
Seasons
4
Episodes
52
Network
Animal PlanetAnimal Planet

Season 1

Episodes

No episodes found for this season.

Featuring

Cast & crew

3 credited
Starring
Bill Nighy

Bill Nighy

Narrator

Stockard Channing

Stockard Channing

Narrator

Sean Astin

Sean Astin

Narrator

Creative team
Created by
Caroline Hawkins

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