| Season 2 of RIVER MONSTERS
showing on Animal Planet (US) from Sunday 25 April 2010
Following the huge success of the original River Monsters
series (largest ever audiences in the history of Animal Planet US)
a second series is airing in 2010.
Join Jeremy Wade and an all-new cast of outsize and outlandish
fish, in locations as diverse as the Congo, southern Florida, Southeast
Asia and Alaska. See
preview
This second season brings the total of 100lb-plus river-dwelling
species caught on camera to 9, with 7 of these over 150lb
- and 4 of these way over that. But it's not just about size.
Broadcast dates & times
Sun 25 April, 10pm (stingray - Thailand)
Sun 02 May, 10pm (snakehead - Thailand & Florida)
Sun 09 May, 10pm (Congo catfish)
Sun 16 May, 10pm (Alaska - the Lake Iliamna Monster)
Sun 23 May, 10pm (African Rift Valley - Nile perch)
Sun 30 May, 10pm (South African bullsharks)
Sun 06 Jun, 10pm (goliath tigerfish - Congo)
To catch up with season 1, a River
Monsters DVD is available from the Animal Planet online shop
(US/NTSC format). In the UK a series 1 DVD produced by ITV (PAL
format) is available from retail and online outlets.
River Monsters is produced by multiple award winning
Icon Films
Jungle Hooks
Jungle Hooks India
|
 |
 |
| |
Is it safe to get in the
water?...
Nearly half the world's fish species
live in just 0.01% of the world's water - our lakes
and rivers. Yet most people know less about what lives
in fresh water than they do about the oceans.
Because some rivers are very hard to get to - and/or too murky
to see into, using normal means - many of their inhabitants are
rarely or never seen in conventional natural history programmes.
River
Monsters takes a different approach. Biologist
and fishing detective Jeremy Wade starts by examining
myths and fishermen's tales, subjecting them to scientific
scrutiny to separate fact from fiction. Then he homes
in on his targets using a fishing line. The results
are some fish of staggering dimensions and appearance,
including some spectacular TV 'firsts'.
|
|
|
 |
| |
Jungle Hooks is a fishing series
with a difference. With the help of a diverse cast of
characters, we are lowered beneath the surface of this
bewildering region - to a reality even stranger than
the Amazon we imagined. Meanwhile the hunt for the arapaima
has as many twists as the great river's course.
“Nowhere else in fresh water
is there a fish so large and sporting ... and yet this
giant has hardly been tested on a rod.”
Leander J. McCormick, in Game Fish
of the World (1949), on the pirarucu (Arapaima gigas)
of the Amazon
|
|
| |
 |
| |
Victorian expats in the service
of the British empire told of supercharged monster fish
in the Himalayas. Jeremy Wade sets out to see if these
stories hold true today.
“Many a sportsman has truly
said that he would rather catch a big mahseer than shoot
a tiger.”
Maj. A. St J. Macdonald, Circumventing
the Mahseer (1948)
|
|
|
 |
| |
For another chance to see Jungle
Hooks or Jungle Hooks India in the UK, check the schedules
of Discovery Real Time & Discovery Real Time Extra.
|
|
|
