A new series with Gordon Buchanan meeting a Gorillia family starts on Monday at 9pm looks good.
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Gorilla Family & Me (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter Euan Buchan
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Thanks Euan... got that set to record.
Gordon's always value for money, isn't he.
Gordon's always value for money, isn't he.
Gill Osborne
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Thanks Euan :t: Haven't seen any Christmas tv magazines yet (despite working in a newsagents!!!) so will go through tomorrow's paper with my highlighter 
Have set this to record on the Sky box :t:
Have set this to record on the Sky box :t:
I think the second part is on the 27th.
The most annoying of all filmmakers. Why does this guy insist on filming himself rather than his subjects. Twenty minutes was enough!
I enjoy listening to Gordon, and he is always at one with his subject at all times.
Gordon took a lot of risks participating this film, and bless his cotton socks for the 'risks' he took for us the viewer so we could see the precarious life of a Gorilla family
A sad look at wildlife when two siblings fall out with one another (brothers in this case) and all the mayhem that it causes the more stable group of grollias - to the point that a lot of fights occur, and it makes things for so much insecruity to the future of the 'stable' group for their own future family needs
An real eye opener if anything else has to be said :t:
Gordon took a lot of risks participating this film, and bless his cotton socks for the 'risks' he took for us the viewer so we could see the precarious life of a Gorilla family
A sad look at wildlife when two siblings fall out with one another (brothers in this case) and all the mayhem that it causes the more stable group of grollias - to the point that a lot of fights occur, and it makes things for so much insecruity to the future of the 'stable' group for their own future family needs
An real eye opener if anything else has to be said :t:
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Farnboro John
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Umm. Do you not think it actually gives the lie to the many people who imagine that gorillas are uniformly peace-loving animals living some sort of vegetarian utopian existence? Instead they are revealed as thinking social beasts that have exactly the same sort of motivations, emotions and struggles as other apes including man (for that matter all animals with complex societies). And that it points up the necessity for that conflict and change in order to avoid inbreeding?
Nothing sad about it Kathy. It's life. The only sadness in the programmes is to do with poaching and human encroachment due to uncontrolled breeding.
John
Unfortunatily, I think I brought in the feelings of a human being, and that was wrong of me to say or even think that - yes, gorillas are very sociable and intelligent. They are strong and survivors to the core. They know what is right and wrong for them and they are to be admired for that alone.
The hunting problem is a bad thing, and it is so unecessary to kill any animal for no particular reason other than trophies in some cases is very wrong indeed.
There seemed to be a lot of Gorillia programmes on at Christmas John Bishop had a programme on them which I totally forgot about.
honeym
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I think the title of the films set the scene completely: "Gorilla Family & Me".
It was not just another programme about gorillas but one about the interaction between the gorillas and Gordon Buchanan and, as such, the shots of himself with the gorillas and others where he described his feelings and emotions were all part of the story which I, for one, enjoyed.
Martin
Monahawk
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I'm sure that was worth avoiding. Another so called celebrity or unfunny comedian interacting with wildlife. It's all about them not the subject. ' Oohh look at me and a wild animal'! Let's stick with the experts like Gordon, guys in the know and who also know how make a decent wildlife programme.
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