Airdate: Wildlifers!

ABC ME’s new comedy factual show, Wildlifers! follows Su and Pharrell, both 14-year-old emerging wannabe documentary filmmakers.

Part real-world footage, part fictional story, the series is produced by WildBear Entertainment.

Su is a naturalist in waiting. If it swims, crawls, flies or bites – Su can tell you all about it.

Pharrell, on the other hand, would probably rather be making films with scripts and emotions and actors and stuff – but for the time being shooting crocodiles, frill neck lizards, battling elephant seals and the occasional dive-bombing flying fox on his 8k Canon Vixia HF G40 from the safety of a camouflaged hide, is about as close as he is going to get.

Thrown together by Roaring Koala, the production company they’re interning for, they make an unlikely team as they spend their days watching, waiting, bickering and occasionally filming the animals they’ve been enlisted to document.

After extensive research into the ABC’s library of wildlife footage to find the most bizarre and interesting sequences of animals in their natural habitats, WildBear Entertainment and the ABC present an entertaining and educational new series for children aged 8+.

Production credit: Wildlifers! is a WildBear Entertainment production for the ABC. Principal production funding from Screen Australia in association with the ABC and VicScreen. Distributed by ABC Commercial. Executive Producers Alan Erson, Kate Pappas and Mark O’Toole. ABC Executive Producer Mary-Ellen Mullane. Series Director Isaac Elliott.

7am / 4pm Monday 15 May on ABC ME.