Overview
- Six episodes premiere Sunday 9 November at 6.20pm on BBC One, with the full series available the same day on BBC iPlayer.
- The series follows a lion pride, a wild dog pack, a hyena clan and a leopard family over five years in Nsefu in Zambia’s South Luangwa National Park.
- Executive producer Mike Gunton describes the tone as intense and almost Shakespearean, crafted as a bingeable continuing narrative.
- Production ran continuously in a single location for a BBC-record duration, involving more than 170 crew, over 90 Zambian staff and close collaboration with local scientists and conservationists.
- Filming deployed long lenses, camera traps, drones, thermal and infra‑red imaging, as well as vehicle and helicopter rigs, with episode one centering on leopard mother Olimba and her two cubs.