Fatal Attractions (TV series)
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| Genre | Documentary |
| Created by | Joe Evans Nigel Levy |
| Narrated by | Jana Sheldon |
| Theme music composer | Birger Clausen |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 25 |
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| Executive producer(s) |
Caroline Hawkins Erin Wanner |
| Producer(s) | Nigel Levy |
| Running time | 44 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Oxford Scientific Films |
| Distributor | BBC Worldwide |
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| Original network | Animal Planet |
| Picture format | 720p (HDTV) |
| Original release | March 14, 2010 – February 22, 2013 |
| External links | |
| Website | animalplanet |
Fatal Attractions is a recurring documentary series on Animal Planet. First aired in 2010, the show focuses on human obsessions with wild animals that can become dangerous and sometimes fatal. This program holds a TV-14 rating due to the disturbing content in each episode.
Each episode deals with either a species (chimpanzee, tiger) or a class (reptiles, big cats) of animals—referred to in the show as "exotic"—not normally regarded as domesticated pets. Generally, two or three stories about a person whose relationships with these animals turned tragic are intertwined.
Each story within an episode is told through flashbacks and re-enactments, narrated by actress Jana Sheldon. Subject-matter experts (SMEs), along with family members and surviving attack victims, are interviewed as part of the narrative.
A three-episode miniseries premiering in March 2010 served as the pilot for the series. Animal Planet ordered an additional four episodes, which began airing in October 2010. Another order was placed for four more episodes, which began airing in February 2011.
Each episode deals with two or three stories of people who keep animals as pets that are generally not meant to live in domestic environments and often are hostile to mankind in general. Episodes explore how these owners come to develop a psychological dependence on these animals, to the point of allowing themselves to get so close to these animals that the line between predator and prey becomes blurred or even non-existent. Episodes usually depict someone getting hurt or killed as a result of keeping exotic species as household pets. Each story is tied together at the end, as part of the overall theme of why wild animals should remain in the wild and not in backyards.
Many episodes deal with high-profile animal attack cases, such as the February 2009 mauling of Charla Nash by Travis, a 14-year-old chimpanzee who had lived as a pet for his entire life with Connecticut businesswoman Sandra Herold. Others deal with high-profile animal seizures, such as the finding of Ming, a Bengal tiger living in a Harlem apartment.
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