Last Chance to See – new BBC2 series
Co-presented by Mark & Stephen Fry

Mark has joined forces with Stephen Fry to present a new television series about endangered species – as inspired by the best-selling book which Mark wrote some 20 years ago with Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See.

The series will include some of the old stars from the book, and it will introduce us to many new ones that have inevitably joined the ever-expanding cast of endangered species.

Updating the animals’ stories and explaining their ecological predicaments, Mark and Stephen will face (and they already have!) a catalogue of adventures. The amazing, often eccentric human characters whose determination was all that kept the animals from going extinct all those years ago will, inevitably, still be around.

Filming began in the new year in the Amazon, and Mark and Stephen are currently filming the next instalment in Uganda, Kenya and Madagascar (see Mark's blogs).

A BBC Wales and West Park Pictures co-venture; transmission due on BBC2
in 2009.