PBS & Love Nature tap Camel Thorn, Terra Mater & WNET for ‘Big Cats, Small World’

Big Cats, Small World

PBS and Love Nature have greenlit a one-hour special that tracks how lions, leopards and cheetahs raise their families while coexisting in a fiercely competitive world.

Big Cats, Small World (1 x 60 minutes) is from UK-based Camel Thorn Films – founded by Robyn Keene-Young and Adrian Bailey – and The WNET Group, with Austria’s Terra Mater Studios and Love Nature attached as coproduction partners.

It will premiere in the US on PBS, as part of its Nature series, and globally on Love Nature in 2024. The show is also destined for Sky Nature in the UK and Italy as part of Love Nature and Sky’s content partnership. Blue Ant International oversees pre-sales and licensing outside of commissioning territories.

Carlyn Staudt, GM at Love Nature, said the show would offer “stunning visual storytelling” and “a captivating account of the fierce competition and delicate balance that exists among Africa’s most magnificent predators.”

The special is produced by Bailey and written/directed by Robyn Keene-Young from Camel Thorn, with Fred Kaufman attached as EP for The WNET Group. Series producer is Bill Murphy, with Terra Mater Studios’ Andrea Gastgeb and Sabine Holzer exec producing. Alison Barrat executive produces the documentary on behalf of Love Nature.