Animals (2019)

Wildlife show with Steve Backshall, featuring simple tips and advice for helping the UK's prickly pals to bounce back from the brink of extinction.

Liz Bonnin introduces a cast of charismatic animals to reveal the remarkable strategies they use to survive, and even thrive, in winter. For animals this is the toughest time of year, and preparations start early. In autumn, Siberian chipmunks collect food in their cheek pouches to stockpile in their burrows, while caribou make an epic journey to new feeding areas away from the worst weather. With the arrival of winter, the American bobcat has to find its prey beneath deep snow, while an Arctic fox must sniff out its very own frozen ready meal.

Trainer Graeme Hall helps famous faces solve their dogs' behavioural problems, using his experience to find quick but long-lasting solutions. Graeme visits Essex, where actress and presenter Denise Van Outen is being given the runaround by her French bulldog Tilly. He then meets opera singer Russell Watson, whose saluki Poppy has a fear of other dogs, before helping former England striker Michael Owen, whose Staffordshire bull terrier Ronnie has attacked dogs in the past.

Clips of pets up to all sorts of antics for the holidays.

When you split rock you never know what you're going to get inside, so there is this 'wow' moment when you observe for the first time animals that have been in the mud, you know for half a billion yrs!

Heartwarming and dramatic stories of animal rehabilitation focusing on the people who look after animals 24/7, when there is nowhere else for them to go. Former security guard Geoff opened the doors of his bungalow in Nuneaton to care for animals in need 17 years ago and, since then, he has looked after 47,000 of them, while Jenny has been rehabilitating bats in her home for more than 40 years.

Young animals love nothing more than play. But science is now revealing the astonishing benefits animals gain from it. This series uncovers the secrets behind their games.

Wildlife experts use low-light cameras to discover what Britain's animals do after dark.

The show brings viewers a new look at Scandinavia - once home to the infamous Vikings, and still a land of vast coastlines, soaring mountains, daring adventurers, ancient civilizations and lush forests.

Hacienda Nápoles in rural Colombia was once the haunt of billionaire psychopath Pablo Escobar, who just so happened to have a soft spot for exotic animals – particularly Hippopotami!