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Hit Entertainment expands wildlife slate

Hit Wildlife, the natural history arm of Hit Entertainment, arrives at MIPCOM with a raft of specials offering a new take on the genre.

{We’ve recently extended our catalogue to include human history and human animal stories,{ said Carl Hall, Hit Wildlife’s md. {These new genres sit happily alongside the high quality blue-chip programming that we’ve built our reputation on.{

He added: {We’ve also started exploiting the amazing computer graphics and technology available to us, to take us back in time – thousands, even millions of years ago – as we do in films like Last of the Dragons.{

Last of the Dragons, produced by Plastic Reality, takes viewers on a roller-coaster ride through the deserts of Africa and the rainforests of Asia and Australia in search of descendants of the legendary dragon.

Mixing cgi and real action footage, the 1×60′ special looks to reconcile the ancient myths with today’s forked tongue descendants. Hit holds worldwide rights to the title, which will be ready for delivery in November 2001.

Other slate highlights include Legends of the Gobi, which focuses on a Mongolian camel breeder whose prize animal goes missing. The 60-minute special follows his search for the camel through the country’s unforgiving landscape.

Chimps on the Move, meanwhile, puts the spotlight on Sheila and David Siddle, who have built up the largest sanctuary for chimps in the world, only to be faced with relocating 46 of them because of overcrowding.

There is also The Last Place on Earth, a conservation-driven portrait of New Zealand’s unique flora and fauna, the result of the two islands drift away from the supercontinent Gondwanaland 120 million years ago.

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