I've watched some episodes from these two TV series about South Africa, from the Hallmark Channel:
Wild at heart
Life is wildThe story of an English family who move to the South African bush to set up and run a game reserve - and sort out the problems within the family itself. When the series begins, Danny Trevanion (a widower and vet in his early forties) is living in England with his eighteen-year-old daughter Rosie, Sarah (his wife of six months) and Sarah's two children from her previous marriage, eight-year-old Olivia and thirteen-year-old Evan. Family tensions are running high but when Danny brings home a monkey whose life he saved after it was smuggled illegally into the country, Sarah decides that the family should travel together to Africa to return the monkey to its natural habitat - and their world changes forever as they adjust to life in a very different land.
Has anyone else seen them? How realistic are the presentations of South Africa? It seems to me there was a hidden kind of propaganda especially in "Life is wild", about how the entire white community should accept Zulu as the universal culture.Katie Clarke may never forgive her veterinarian father, Danny for dragging their entire blended family out of New York City to spend a year living in a broken-down lodge called The Blue Antelope in a game reserve deep inside South Africa. Everyone in the family – including Katie’s 11-year-old brother Chase, Danny’s second wife Jo, her rebellious teenage son Jesse and 7-year-old daughter, Mia – is sure Danny has lost his mind. But Danny’s reasons go beyond his desire to keep his troubled family together while making a difference in the lives of the people and animals of South Africa: his deceased first wife Claire grew up at The Blue Antelope and it’s still home to her reclusive father Art. While they are definitely outsiders, Katie and the rest of the family are nevertheless beginning to love the breathtaking vistas of the bush country and the vibrant culture enveloping them. A year in this strange but beautiful place might not be so bad after all.
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