BBC Wildlife Documentaries in the Age of Attenborough by Jean-baptiste Gouyon

Author:Jean-baptiste Gouyon
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030199821
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Life Opens Up Expert Disagreement to Public Scrutiny

The fate of Armand Denis, whose films about exotic wildlife had formed the basis of some of the earliest natural history programmes broadcast in Britain, is emblematic of the mutation wildlife television began undergoing after 1965. Denis’s collaboration with the BBC had started in 1954, and for a time, his programmes clashed with the first Zoo Quest series, as both he and Attenborough visited similar places, filming similar species. But in May 1965, Denis’s series On Safari, overseen in Bristol and broadcast since 1956, ended abruptly. Desmond Hawkins informed Denis:I am afraid I have bad news for you. I had my first meeting with Michael Peacock as the new Controller of BBC-1 and he told me he wanted to end the run of On Safari after the present series. This is not from immediate dissatisfaction with your latest programmes. It is simply that the general pattern of On Safari has had a longer run than almost anything in television and he feels that the format has become hackneyed and old fashioned.1

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