Wiggle to front Seven show.

Seven has announced a new observational series, RSPCA Animal Rescue.

“Blue Wiggle” Anthony Field will present the show which looks at veterinarians and the challenges faced by the RSCPA.

Field promises, a “rollercoaster of emotions watching the stories unfold on this series, particularly those with neglected animals.”

It was filmed in Victoria, NSW and Queensland.

Press Release:

Anthony Field will make his first foray into prime-time television on Channel Seven’s new observational documentary series, RSPCA Animal Rescue.

Best known as the blue Wiggle in the hugely successful children’s group The Wiggles, Field will present and narrate the series featuring the tough daily assignments and high pressure work faced by the RSPCA’s inspectorate and veterinary staff.

“I’m really excited about my involvement in the series RSPCA Animal Rescue,” said Field today. “I’ve seen the great work vets have done before. But to get to see the sad, cruel, ignorant and misguided things the owners of animals can do to their pets, and then what the men and women of the RSPCA have to do to rescue the animals, is amazing.

“I had no idea the extent of good they do for animals as well as their owners. It may be education, prosecution or rescue from an unforeseen accident. Whatever it is, it’s always with the animal’s best interests at heart. It’s a rollercoaster of emotions watching the stories unfold on this series, particularly those with neglected animals.”

Indeed, it’s a fierce and sometimes emotional journey for the inspectors on RSPCA Animal Rescue as they confront cases of horror and heartbreak during their job to rescue the lost, neglected, abandoned and abused animals of Australia – a country with one of the greatest pet populations per capita in the world.

The show was filmed during the summer months of 06/07 in the states of New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland and sees some extraordinary rescues – from a cow in a river, a horse in a ditch, to a wounded pelican shot by an arrow and many cats and dogs who’ve become hurt or been left without adequate care.

More than 130,000 animals each year are given shelter at one of the many branches of the RSPCA across Australia. Many are rescued by the inspectors, some surrendered, and others are brought to their clinics by one of the many Animal Ambulances that support the main branch offices. RSPCA Animal Rescue gives the viewer a close-up look at the work and care the RSPCA give to animals. It’s a sometimes high drama environment where frontline staff make life and death decisions everyday, occasionally risking their own safety for the life of an animal.

RSPCA Animal Rescue is coming soon to Channel Seven in ’07.