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About The Show

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Saturdays at 1pm

The story of an English family moving to the South African bush to set up and run a game reserve - and more importantly, to sort out the problems within the family itself..

About the show

Wild at Heart is the story of an English family moving to the South African bush to set up and run a game reserve - and more importantly, to sort out the problems within the family itself.

When the series begins, Danny Trevanion (a widower and vet in his early 40s) 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 13-year-old Evan.

Tensions in the family are running high, with Rosie bitterly resentful that her father has remarried and Evan so out of control that he takes a tranquiliser gun into school to threaten the boys who are bullying him.

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 - hoping that they'll finally bond as a family unit along the way.

It's intended just to be a holiday, but once out there they meet Du Plessis, a hard-bitten Afrikaaner who owns a decaying game reserve.

When Du Plessis sees Danny's skill as a vet, he asks Danny and Sarah to buy into the reserve and help him to turn it into a successful game park. Sarah believes that it will be a fresh start for all of them, a chance for them to become a proper family - and she and Danny accept the offer and make the life-altering decision to move to South Africa.

The series then focuses on the trials and tribulations of the dysfunctional Trevanion tribe as they adjust to life in a very different land. Early stories focus on their struggle to get the game park up and running - finding and looking after the animals that will be its main attraction and dealing with the dangers of life out in the bush.

Then, as the first tourists arrive, charming but ruthless rival game-park owner Alex Tate becomes a threat, both to Danny and Sarah's business and to their marriage. The family also have to contend with elephant poachers, bush fires, runaway children and a drunken Du Plessis as they attempt to build a new and exciting life for themselves under southern skies.

Will they succeed?

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