May 31, 2006
Meerkat Manor premieres June 9th on Animal Planet
Meerkat Manor is a soap opera with a difference – the main protagonists are 12 inches high, live underground in burrows and survive on a diet of worms, insects and lizards.
This ground breaking series, narrated by Bill Nighy, follows a group of meerkats living in the Kalahari Desert in southern Africa. From family squabbles to love affairs, Animal Planet presents a detailed portrait of these curious and entertaining creatures as never seen before. We’ll get to know each individual character as intimately as any human soap star but here the relationships, births, deaths and conflicts are for real…
http://www.animalplanetasia.com/meerkatmanor/feature1.shtml