Africa Facts
Africa is coming to TV ONE.
A mammoth exploration of what makes Africa tick, the animals which live within and the world just out of reach for many of us.
Once again, Sir David Attenborough and his team have spent months filming, editing and pulling together the story of Africa.
This series has been:
- Four years in production
- Seen crew spend 1,598 hours on location, filming
- Spent 905 hours trekking in the jungle
- Filmed over 2,000 hours of footage
- Eight cameras were harmed during the making of Africa
- One camera was chargrilled
- Two cameras were eaten; one by a lion and one by an elephant.
- Three cameras were drowned
- Two helicam cameras crashed
- 6,526 anti-malarial tablets
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601 nights spent in tents
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79 separate filming expeditions
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27 countries visited
- Just under
50 tonnes of kit carried by
crew
