Wild at Heart (TV series)
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| Genre | Family drama |
| Created by | Ashley Pharoah |
| Starring |
Stephen Tompkinson Dawn Steele Lucy-Jo Hudson Amanda Holden Olivia Scott-Taylor Deon Stewardson Hayley Mills Nomsa Xaba Thapelo Mokoena |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 7 + Finale Special |
| No. of episodes | 65 (list of episodes) |
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| Location(s) | Glen Afric Country Lodge, Broederstroom, North West Province, 0240, South Africa |
| Running time | 43–48 minutes (series, approx.) 120 minutes (finale special, approx.) |
| Production company(s) | Company Pictures |
| Distributor | All3Media |
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| Original network | ITV, STV, UTV |
| Picture format | 16:9 1080i HD |
| Original release | 29 January 2006 – 30 December 2012 |
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| Related shows | Life Is Wild (U.S. version) |
Wild at Heart is an ITV television drama series created by Ashley Pharoah about a veterinary surgeon and his family, who emigrate from Bristol, England to South Africa, where they attempt to rehabilitate a game reserve for wild animals and establish a veterinary surgery and animal hospital. The show ran for seven seasons beginning on 29 January 2006 and ending on 30 December 2012.
Wild at Heart began airing 29 January 2006 on ITV. It ran for seven series, concluding 30 December 2012 with a two-hour finale. It was filmed on location at the Glen Afric Country Lodge, a 1500-acre game reserve and sanctuary that is home to a host of African wildlife, including lions, giraffes, elephants, cheetahs, hippos and buffalo. Glen Afric is located in Broederstroom, North West Province, South Africa. A large set called 'Leopards Den' was built on the property specifically for the production. Producer Ann Harrison-Baxter said: "We literally walked every inch of the reserve to find the best place to build the house, and then it was all created from scratch and aged to look like it had been there for more than a century in just 10 weeks!" Leopards Den was significant as a symbolic character in its own right throughout the show's 7 years. It served as the backdrop against which the family struggled to carve out a new life for themselves, and ultimately to survive and remain together.
The primary cast included Stephen Tompkinson as Danny Trevanion; Amanda Holden as Danny's wife Sarah (died in Series 3); Lucy-Jo Hudson as Danny's daughter Rosie; Deon Stewardson as the Trevanions' business partner Anders DuPlessis ('Dup'); Hayley Mills as Caroline DuPlessis; Luke Ward-Wilkinson as Danny's stepson Evan; Olivia Scott-Taylor as Danny's step-daughter Olivia; Nomsa Xaba as Nomsa – Leopard Den's cook and housekeeper; and Thapelo Mokoena as the town's barman and Dup's 'partner in crime', Cedric Fatani. Dawn Steele appeared regularly in Series 4–6 as Alice Collins (later Trevanion), but took maternity leave for all but one episode of Series 7, returning for the Christmas finale. Tarryn Faye Brummage played Alice's daughter Charlotte, and Atandwa Kani appeared in Series 6–7.
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