Airdate: Desert Vet

Factual series Desert Vet, which previously screened as a pilot on Seven, will screen as a series on Nine from early December.

Filmed across the north-west region of WA by Cinematographer Tim Small it centres around 2018 West Australian of the Year finalist Dr Rick Fenny, also known as Red Dog‘s vet.

The 4 part series from indie Australian production house Projucer (Andy & Ben Eat Australia) follows Rick Fenny as he undergoes his day-to-day vet work across 5,500km of desert and within remote outback towns, joined by his Marine Biologist son Ed and daughter Louisa, who is also a vet.

Projucer’s Matty Roberts says, “It’s a show that Projucer and our broadcasters are confident both Australian and international audiences will love, taking them into wilderness areas rich with Australia’s unique flora and fauna, as well as giving them unreal access to highly emotive animal stories, from the moment a pug is rushed into the vet clinic after being bitten by a deadly brown snake, to three men on a small boat accidentally hooking a three metre Tiger Shark and having to drag it onboard to release it humanely. This show has got everything!”

The series has also screened in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe on ViaSat’s Nature Channel and is titled Outback Vet in the UK.

Matty Roberts and Joshua Capelin of Projucer have partnered with emerging Australian DOP / Cinematographer Tim Small to co-create and co-direct the series. Outback Vet is distributed globally by Parade Media’s Matthew Ashcroft. Outback Vet/Desert Vet was ordered by Nine Network Australia, with pre-investment from UKTV. The deal was brokered domestically by Projucer’s co-founder Matty Roberts and Nine Network’s Hamish Turner, and in the UK by UKTV’s acquisitions manager, Charlie Charalambous, and Parade Media’s CEO, Matthew Ashcroft.

8.30pm Wednesday December 4 on Nine.