Born to be Wild 2019

Born to be Wild Evaluation and cuttings

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Maramedia’s Born to be Wild From 2 September 2019 on BBC TWO

About Born to be Wild: Born to be Wild is a 10­part factual series made by Glasgow based indie Maramedia. For the first time, viewers were taken behind the scenes of the Scottish SPCA’s National Wildlife Rescue centre. The series followed the treatment and rehab of a host of characters from baby otters to a concussed woodpecker. The passionate and dedicated team at the centre care for and rear some of Scotland’s best loved wild animals and we follow the heart warming and individual journeys of these animals given a second chance of life. With the latest technology, the cameras also follow the animals who have been cared for as they return to life in the wild.

Filmed over a year, this is a feel­good series celebrating nature and wildlife.

PR Objective: The aim was to raise awareness and drive a wider audience than usual to the new strand Born to be Wild as well as tapping into the increasing public appetite for wildlife conservation and feel good TV shows and raising the industry profile of Maramedia.

Coverage overview: There was wide­ranging media coverage across TV, radio, print and online with 43 pieces reaching 7.2 million people (this figure doesn’t include broadcast or online). Highlights of the campaign included a feature in the Daily Mirror where the journalist Julie McCaffrey visited the wildlife centre for a behind­the­scenes feature. i­news also ran a feature on their Tuesday nature page. We also placed an online ‘Feeding frenzy’ compilation in the Daily Mirror online which had a reach of over 895 thousand. There were two TV sofa interviews with contributors: BBC Breakfast and BBC Look North and four radio interviews including BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast and the Jo Good Show on BBC London. Trade coverage was important part of the campaign and there were three pieces in Broadcast – a Behind­the­scenes feature about the production of the series which appeared in the magazine as well as online; an And Finally…’ Q&A by Nigel Pope; and an online story about BBC Scotland recommissioning the series.

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Analytics:

Top 20 Sources by Value ­ 23/09/2019 Source Name

Value

The Sunday Times

12,889.60

Radio Times

12,101.04

Inside Soap

11,157.51

Daily Record

9,384.76

Tv Choice

8,829.92

Broadcast

7,515.27

Liverpool Echo

1,962.12

Birmingham Mail

1,630.12

Broadcastnow (Web)

1,512.00

Manchester Evening News

1,509.60

Nottingham Post

1,001.60

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National Features Behind the Scenes by Julie McCaffrey

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stafffeed by a team of devoted experts.

Colin Seddon, manager off the National fe Rescue Centre, says: “SomeWildlife times I bring baby badgers home with me, just to keep an eye on them overnight. We We all bond with the animals.

“But we know it’s our job to send them safely back to the wild – and know we see very sick animals, so not every one survives.

We get quite a fe few tears off pride “We when we see improvements in their health and sadness when they leave us.”

Colin used experience gleaned from his 40-year career in animal welfare to design the 63-acre sprawling network of aviaries, pools and incubators, hutches, av outdoor pens in Fishcross, Alloa, in Central Scotland.

The centre, run by the Scottish SPCA, cost £3.6million and opened in 2012, but allowed, as the visitors haavve never been al animals’ health is so fragile any extra noise or attention can disturb them. w, for the ffiirst time, cameras haavve Now, been allowed in to fi film a new w BBC Two 10-part documentary, y, Born to be Wild, which started last night.

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Yet it’s clear, on meeting the staffff, that Ye they adore animals so much they n’’t be at all put off ff. wouldn April Sorley has been a wildlife fe assistant here for more than four years and looks after foxes, badgers, pine martins, deer, otters, stoats and weasels.

She describes the two orphaned otters under her care as her babies. Chubb was found abandoned in Inverness and Drum was caught in a snare in Angus.

They live next door to each other as staffff hope they will socialise together lh h f l

soon, although, so s fa far, early introductions descended d fights that were into playy fi more fight than plaayy.

They may nott like each other yet, but w Both otters stubseem to adore April.

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Ap pril has the same effffectt on the 11 fawns in the outdoor paddoock, who run to her when she’s alone, b but aw away ay from her if she’s accompanied nyyone else. d byy an “Fawns are myy faav avourite,,” she beams.

“Just don “J n’’t tell Chu ubb.”

April conffeesses sh he might like animals more than humanss.

“I fe feel I haavve the b best job in the world.

It’s about getting too know the behaavviour and p personalities off animals we don n’’t oft ften get to see up close.

“But I cry daily beecause lots off animals we see come in don’ n’t make it. And that hits me prettyy hard d.”

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their head,” she explains.

Animals’ emotional problems are dealt with, too. One young cygnet is repeatedlyy swimming up and down in his pool. “Charles the cygnet was abandoned by his family and is feeling stressed,” saayys We put Dickins the Kaniz. “We mallard in the same pen for company but, so far, they’re ignoring each other.

DEDICAT AT gannet was “Pattyy the ga Colin Sedd & Kaniz H very emaciated when she came in. She’s much stronger now and has a bad attitude like an angry teenager – I love her.”

Six other mallards who were contaminated by diesel have been treated in the washroom and are dyy recovery. y. making a stead Outside, are special buildings for bats and hedgehogs. And a white-tipped eagle who has a broken leg is in a pen on its own.

We get a Colin says: “We thrill when something rare comes in, like an eagle or the hooded seal from Iceland. But each one gets treated the same, even the animals n’’t oft ften like, such some people don as gulls or foxes. Iff we haavve 300 gulls here, it’s because 300 people have cared enough to rescue them.”

The orphan rooms are jam packed with the aah-factor.

Nicola Turnbull, head of small animals, is bottlefeeding a rabbit on her lap. fe ften takes a crate She oft off up to 20 bunnies home overnight and frequently also hosts hares, mice, s You s.

You can then shop at es online and they make a Donate: Cat & dog food, or cotton balls, plain (not anuts, old towels, fresh

at home.

“I can’t switch of f from my job and would worry about all the little animals all night. So I haavve two orphan rooms at home, one for predators and one for preyy,,” she says.

“My partner knows not to even ask what’s in there. I think he worries I might choose animals over him.”

As much comfort and care as they give, staffff know their purpose is to send them back to the wild. And being nvvolves far more than just released in letting them go.

We haavve to scour the Colin saayys: “We country for the right territory for the We haavve to check the neighspecies. We bours’ attitude as a landowner might be OK to haavve hedgehogs, but their n’t. W Wee have to make neighbours aren y.” sure they haavve the right food supply.

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Knowing they haavve been given the Kn bestt chance off survival doesn’t mak ake saayyingg goodbye an nyy easier.

“It can be hard at times... Y Yoou haavve a that everything’s going to to accept leavve – they’re born in the wild and thatt’s where they should be. And you haavve to accept that you can lookk after som mething for weeks and weeks, and it diies. W Wee just like to do everything y we can c to make sure it lives.”

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HOW YOU CAN HELP

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RECOVERING Injured grey seal

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Television BBC Breakfast – one of the highest rating national breakfast shows – Kaniz Hayat, Head of Seals, and vet Liam Reid were interviewed on the sofa and discussed the series and their work.

BBC Look North (Newcastle) – Interviewed Kaniz Hayat, Head of Seals, about the series and what her job entails.

Radio Radio 5 Live Breakfast Show – The popular breakfast show ran a special ‘animal­voice’ quiz and an interview with Maramedia’s creative director, Nigel Pope.

BBC London – the Jo Good Show interviewed the center’s Head of Large Mammals, Sheelagh McAllister https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07kf pq0 (interview 1 hr 09 mins – 1 hr 23 mins)

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BBC Scotland – Maramedia’s Nigel Pope and vet, Romaine Pizzi were interviewed by Nicola Meighan for Out for the Weekend https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0007 ygr (interview 5:50 – 16:20)

BBC Look North Newcastle Radio – Kaniz Hayat interviewed about her work and participating in the show

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Online Daily Mirror – A short film entitled Feeding Frenzy depicited animals being fed, was accompanied by background information ran on the Daily Mirror website. https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv­ previews/feeding­time­animal­hospital­ cute­19962779

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TV Previews

National TV Previews Sunday Times Culture

MONDA AY Y 2 SEPTEMBER

CRITICS’ CHOICE

Rise Of The Nazis (BBC2, 9pm) This part-dramatised documentary by Julian Jones chronicles the manner in which Adolf Hitler came to power, r, started the Second World War and oversa aw w the annihilation of 6m Jews.

Jones’s master touch is to ha av ve drafted in experts on the most important pla ay yers, either historians who have made it their lives’ work to study them, or professionals whose lives’ work mirrors that of theirs. Helena Kennedy speaks for Hans Litten, the la aw wyer who tried to expose the Nazis and General Sir Mike Jackson explains how Hindenberg was manipulated by unseen, unelected interests.

Helen Stewart He Born To’sBe Wild Jamie’s Meat-Free Meals (BBC2, 6.30pm) (C4, 8pm) It Jamie seemsOliver’s almost series implausible is yet that the staff of the Scottish another effort to promote SPhealth CA A’’s hy wildlife veterinary y and environmentally centre could be soThe devoted friendly eating. first to baby hedgehogs or fox cubs episode finds him in Delhi, that theyhe would feedveggie them where samples round clock, clock butvendors. this waresthe from street documentary confirms thatup Back in Blighty, y, he cooks they do. Then, they release “a game-changing” cottage the healthy creatures in the pie and visits a vegetarian knowledge they might be eaten within the hour. (HS)

primary school. (PW) Celebrity Masterchef (BBC1, 9pm) “If I was a judge I’d give it a Michigan starr,,” says Joey Essex, one of the competitors on this long-serving BBC format. Of course he knows it isn’t a Michigan starr,, but the rules of this show are that each contestant must play to their perceived strengths before revealing as much of their true personality as their agent deems profitable. (HS) Why Are Our Politicians So Crap? (C5, 9pm) Jeremy Paxman’s sneer goes into overdrive durring this takedown of a pollitical class that he believes is more incompetent, corrrupt and selff--serving than any a in living n, Corbyn, memory. Johnson ever’s Farage and “whoe al Democrats leading the Libera an dislikes this week”, Paxma them all. (PW)

Born To Be Wild (BBC2, 6.30pm) It seems almost implausible that the staff of the Scottish SPCA A’’s wildlife veterinary centre could be so devoted to baby hedgehogs or fox cubs that they would feed them round the clock clock, but this documentary confirms that they do. Then, they release the healthy creatures in the knowledge they might be eaten within the hour. (HS)

’s Meat-Free Meals Jamie’s (C4, 8pm) Jamie Oliver’s series is yet another effort to promote health hy y and environmentally friendly eating. The first episode finds him in Delhi, where he samples veggie wares from street vendors.

Back in Blighty, y, he cooks up “a game-changing” cottage pie and visits a vegetarian

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BORN TO BE WILD BBC2, 6.30pm An animal series is always a cute and wonderful thing, thing but this new show – filmed behind the scenes at The National Wildlife Rescue Centre in Scotland – is off-thecharts adorable, thanks to the fact that it features so many tiny baby creatures.

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TV Insider

TV INSID DER R WHA AT T NOT TO MISS OUT ON THIS S WEEK

Cameras follow the remarkable work of the Mon & Wed-Fri Scottish SPCA National 6.30pm BBC TTw wo Wildlife Rescue centre.

It’s a unique sanctuary for orphaned and injured animals, like young hedgehog Babe, who is the centre’s longest resident having been there for nine months, since she was born. But after being hand-reared by assistant April, Babe is ready to be released into a local woodland.

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PICKS OF THE DA DAYY

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TV Previews

Regional TV Previews There were over 20 regional previews of the series appearing in outlets including the Manchester Evening News, the Irish Daily Mirror, Birmingham Mail and Daily Record. As regional previews are syndicated, many of the cuttings are formatted in the same way as below.

Other coverage appeared in: Grimsby Telegraph, The Huddersfield Daily Examiner, Coventry Telegraph, Liverpool Echo, Western Morning News (Cornwall), Hull Daily Mail, South Wales Evening Post, Newcastle Evening Chronicle, Nottingham Post, Derby Telegraph, Leicester Mercury and many more.

BEST OF THE REST BORN TO BE WILD BBC2 6.30PM AN animal series is always a cute and wonderful thing, but this new show – filmed behind the scenes at The National Wildlife e Rescue Centre in n Scotland – is dorable, thanks to the off-the-charts ad fact that it featu ures so many tiny baby creatures. als with orphaned and The centre dea injured native wild animals such as deerr,, o eagles and seals. foxes, badgers, otters, The dedicated team that works there abs and rehab the hand-rear the ba injured, all with the t view of them ultimately being g able to return to the wild, like the pin ne marten, pictured.

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BORN TO BE WILD BBC2, 6.30pm An animal series is always a cute and wonderful thing, thing but this new show – filmed behind the scenes at The National Wildlife Rescue Centre in Scotland – is off-thecharts adorable, thanks to the fact that it features so many tiny baby creatures.

Run by the Scottish SPCA, the centre deals with orphaned and injured native wild animals such as deerr,, foxes, badgers, otters,

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Born to be Wild returns to BBC Scotland Maramedia’s animal rescue format gets a second run

BBC Scotland is to return to Britain’s largest animal rescue centre in a second series of Born to be Wild.

Produced by Glasgow-based wildlife specialist Maramedia, the 10 x 60-minute series will again be filmed at the Scottish SSPCA’s National Wildlife Rescue Centre in Fishcross.

The series, which was recently stripped as a 10 x 30-minute series in an early evening slot on BBC2, features heartwarming stories of animals in trouble alongside the experiences of the staff who care for them.

BBC Scotland commissioning executive, factual, David Harron, said: “The first series proved to be a big favourite with our audience, who I’m sure will want to see more animal and human stories from the rescue centre.”

Maramedia founder Jackie Savery, who is executive producing the show, added: “We are thrilled to bring back this popular show for a second series with an engaging mix of the best of British wildlife and fantastic contributors. We will follow some of our best loved species – from seals to squirrels; fox cubs to eagles – through their journey from tiny orphan to fully fledged wild animal.”

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