| On TV: River Monsters SERIES
4 is airing in the UK from 1st January 2013. Tuesday nights
on ITV1 & extended one-hour versions on Wednesday nights on
ITV4. See TV listings for times.
Meanwhile SEASON 5 has now been filmed. It will
air in the US (Animal Planet) in spring 2013, and
in other territories worldwide (Discovery) after that.
Series 4 destinations include: the US, Botswana, Mongolia, India,
Thailand, the far east of Russia, Australia and Zambia.
In Botswana we also filmed the first 3D episode
of River Monsters -- the first ever 3D film of its kind (on-the-hoof
natural history expedition).
The number of man-sized fish, of different inland species,
that we have caught on camera now stands at a dozen (all but 2 of
them weighed over 150lb, and 6 of these were way over that). But
it's not just about size.
To catch up with seasons 1-3, River
Monsters DVDs are available from the Animal Planet online shop
(US/NTSC format). In the UK, DVDs of series 1 & 2 (PAL format,
produced by ITV) are available from retail and online outlets.
River Monsters is produced by multiple award winning
Icon Films
Jungle Hooks
Jungle Hooks India
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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'.
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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
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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)
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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.
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