Wildlife programming returns to ITV, but is Deep Jungle a fresh take on the genre or a triumph of format over fact?

For a long time, it seemed that wildlife programming was extinct on ITV, but tomorrow the network launches its first primetime natural history documentary since the glory days of Survival.

As the opening sequence of Deep Jungle tracks over a computer-generated jungle and explorers flash lasers through the canopies, wildlife’s return to the mainstream will inevitably provoke questions. Is this evidence of a wildlife renaissance or the triumph of a new entertainment-driven species: all format and no fact?

Full article: http://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/may/09/broadcasting.ITV