Big Cats 24/7

2024 - 2024

Episode 1

25th August 2024

Episode 1

The team begins a six-month expedition following lions, leopards and cheetahs in the Okavango Delta. Wildlife filmmakers follow lions, leopards, and cheetahs in Botswana's Okavango Delta.

Episode 2

1st September 2024

Episode 2

The team continue following the Okavango Delta's lions, leopards and cheetahs. After a huge wildfire, Gordon Buchanan and Vianet Djenguet trail the lion pride's dominant males, Big Toe and Madumo, as they reinstate their burnt-out boundaries and fight with intruder males. Brad Bestelink follows Xudum the leopardess as she learns to hunt from trees after the fire wipes out her cover. And Anna Dimitriadis sticks with hungry resident cheetah Pobe day and night as she tries to hunt.

Episode 3

8th September 2024

Episode 3

A fight with intruders leaves the lion pride males injured and the mothers with cubs vulnerable to attack. Xudum the female leopard takes risks to find a mate.

Episode 4

15th September 2024

Episode 4

The Okavango Delta is transformed by the arrival of the flood, bringing new challenges for the big cats. The lion cubs experience water and the danger it brings for the first time.

Episode 5

22nd September 2024

Episode 5

The Big Cats 24/7 team witnesses a baby boom in the Delta. Lioness Matho must protect her cubs alone; whilst leopard mum, Xudum, reveals her newborns with danger looming nearby.

Episode 6

29th September 2024

Episode 6

As lion numbers rise, the competition for food becomes fierce. A lioness risks her life to feed her five cubs and Xudum's newborn leopard cubs face a deadly threat.

Top Cast

Gordon Buchanan•Anna Dimitriadis•Vianet Djenguet

Follow the lives of lions, cheetahs and leopards in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, a place described as one of Africa's last wildernesses.

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Full Cast

Gordon Buchanan Image

Gordon Buchanan

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Anna Dimitriadis

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Vianet Djenguet

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Brad Bestelink Image

Brad Bestelink

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Full Crew

Rowan Crawford

Producer

Gillian Goodlet

Production Manager

Sreya Biswas

Commissioning Editor

Sylvia Bugg

Editorial Consultant

Diana El-Osta

Executive In Charge Of Production

William Turner

Music

James Bickersteth

Editor

Roger Webb

Executive Producer

Tom Jarvis

Executive Producer

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