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PLANET EARTH II FINALE ON BBC EARTH TO FEATURE RACCOONS FILMED IN TORONTO

22 March 2017

The final episode, entitled Cities, airs on BBC Earth on Saturday, March 25 at 9 p.m. ET/PT during nationwide free preview

To interview the Cities producer, Fredi Devas, email kate.calder@blueantmedia.com

The final episode of Planet Earth II, featuring Toronto raccoons, airs on Saturday, March 25 at 9 p.m. ET/PT during BBC Earth’s nationwide free preview event
The final episode of Planet Earth II, featuring Toronto raccoons, airs on Saturday, March 25 at 9 p.m. ET/PT during BBC Earth’s nationwide free preview event

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(Toronto, ON, March 22, 2016) – The finale of BBC Earth’s landmark series, Planet Earth II, featuring raccoons filmed in Toronto, will air on Saturday, March 25 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Anticipation for the raccoons footage began with buzz on social media across Canada when the premiere of Planet Earth II was announced late last year. Entitled, Cities, the sixth and final episode focuses on the remarkable ways in which wildlife has learned to thrive in urban environments. Now, BBC Earth viewers will have the chance to watch the episode in full and see the raccoons segment, along with the other fascinating animals featured in the Cities episode.

Filmed in Toronto, the segment features a mother raccoon’s struggle to usher her litter throughout the urban landscape, in particular from their nest at the top of a building down to an area they can search for food. As her playful babies explore their environment, one gets trapped and is rescued by the mother raccoon who painstakingly shows it how to climb over a fence.

The Cities episode takes a look at Earth’s ever-increasing urban environments as the greatest change affecting wildlife, and explores the idea of building cities that can be homes for both humans and animals. Other animal stories featured in the episode include leopards that prowl the streets of Mumbai, peregrine falcons that hunt amongst New York’s skyscrapers and a million starlings that perform spectacular aerial dances over Rome. Additionally, in Jodhpur, langurs are revered as religious deities and in Harar, locals live in harmony with wild hyenas.

The Planet Earth II finale will premiere during BBC Earth’s nationwide free preview event. Find additional information about programming and scheduling at BBCEarth.ca.

BBC Earth is a global factual brand which seeks to inspire audiences in the UK and worldwide with the most incredible sights, stories and characters from the natural world. Since launch the brand has grown across multiple platforms including branded blocks on television, live events, social media, visitor attractions, theatrical releases for cinema and giant screen films and online. In Canada, BBC Earth is a partnership between Blue Ant Media and BBC Worldwide, the Commercial arm of the BBC.

Blue Ant Media is a privately held, international media company that creates and distributes content worldwide across streaming video, linear television, digital, magazines and live events. Global brands include Love Nature, an international linear and SVOD offering with the world’s largest library of 4K wildlife and nature content; and Makeful and Arcade Cloud by Omnia Media, a leading digital video network focused on gaming and maker lifestyles. The company’s broadcasting business offers a robust portfolio of Canadian and New Zealand-based media brands. Content distribution, lead by Blue Ant International, offers a catalogue of 2,300+ hours of premium, unscripted content worldwide, which includes the largest 4K natural history library on the market. Blue Ant Media is headquartered in Toronto (Canada), with offices located in Los Angeles (US), London (UK) and Auckland (NZ). blueantmedia.com

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