Last Chance to See (TV series)
Last Chance to See is a wildlife documentary first broadcast on BBC Two in the United Kingdom during September and October 2009. The series is a follow-up of the 1989 radio series, also called Last Chance to See, in which Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine set out to find endangered animals. In this updated television version, produced for the BBC, Stephen Fry and Carwardine revisit the animals originally featured to see how they're getting on almost 20 years later.
| Last Chance to See | |
|---|---|
Title card from the "Kakapo" episode | |
| Genre | Nature documentary |
| Presented by | Stephen Fry Mark Carwardine |
| Composers | David Ayers, Felix Tod |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Sam Organ, André Singer |
| Producer | Tim Green |
| Production locations | New Zealand Brazil Madagascar Indonesia Malaysia Mexico Kenya Uganda |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production companies | BBC Wales, West Park Pictures |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC Two |
| Release | 6 September – 18 October 2009 |
In one episode, a male kākāpō, called Sirocco, mounts and attempts to mate with Carwardine's head. Sirocco found fame after the video of his antics became an internet hit, and was later anointed as New Zealand's "spokesbird for conservation".
A Last Chance to See special called "Return of the Rhino" was broadcast on BBC Two on 31 October 2010. The programme followed four of the last remaining northern white rhinos as they were transferred from Dvůr Králové Zoo in the Czech Republic to Ol Pejeta Conservancy, a protected reserve in Kenya, in a last-ditch attempt to save the subspecies from extinction.