Our Zoo
| Our Zoo | |
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| Genre | Drama |
| Written by | Matt Charman |
| Directed by | Andy De Emmony Saul Metzstein |
| Starring |
Lee Ingleby Liz White Ralf Little Stephen Campbell Moore Sophia Myles Amelia Clarkson Honor Kneafsey Peter Wight Anne Reid |
| Composer(s) | Nick Green |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
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| Producer(s) | Marcus Wilson |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Big Talk Productions |
| Distributor | BBC Worldwide |
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| Picture format | 16:9 1080i |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | 3 September – 8 October 2014 |
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| Website | |
Our Zoo is a British drama television series from BBC One, first broadcast on 3 September 2014. The six-part series, written by Matt Charman and directed by Andy De Emmony, is about George Mottershead, his dreams of creating a cage-free zoo, his family and how their lives changed when they embarked on the creation of Chester Zoo.
Our Zoo was commissioned by Danny Cohen and Ben Stephenson for BBC One. The series was based on an idea introduced to Big Talk Productions by Aenon, the production company headed by Adam Kemp. Filming took place in Liverpool, as well as at Walton Hall in Warrington and at Abney Hall in Cheadle. When BBC said there would be no second series of Our Zoo, many fans were left surprised by the decision. On December 10, 2014, the Chester Chronicle created an online petition in the hopes of renewing the show for another series, and by the next day more than 1000 fans had signed it. In spite of these efforts, however, the BBC reiterated that they would not be producing a second series.
George Mottershead lives in the flat above his father Albert's grocery shop with his wife Lizzie and their daughters Muriel and June. He suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder following his time in the army during World War I, but his mother Lucy is frustrated that George still lives with them and wants him and his family to move out. The family become concerned for George's mental state when he visits the local dockyard's quarantine office and purchases a squirrel monkey and an eclectus parrot which were about to be euthanised. George promises to sell the animals to a circus, but ends up buying an old Bactrian camel which the circus' ringmaster planned to slaughter. The three animals are kept in the family's small backyard, and while the neighbours are willing to pay to see them, the grocery shop gets fewer customers.
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