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Another Queen Reigns Over the Kalahari as Stockard Channing Joins the Manor as
the Emmy-Nominated Series' Headstrong Narrator -
SILVER SPRING, Md., April 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Meerkat Manor's favorite first
family, the Whiskers, was dealt a harsh blow last season with the death of their
fearless matriarch, Flower. With the family in shambles, Rocket Dog fought her
way to the spot as top "kat" and new leader for the Whiskers clan. But, mutineer
Maybelline didn't accept her sister Rocket Dog as queen and ditched the clan to
form her own mob, the Aztecs. With the family divided, the sisters' claws come
out -- and the Manor is changed forever.
Now, beginning Friday, June 6, at 9 PM (ET/PT), Rocket Dog and Maybelline
must live within the rather large shadow of their late mother, Flower, and
there's very little room in the Kalahari for both sisters' clans. Not only do
the meerkats face predators, harsh desert weather and archenemies the
Commandos-there's dissent in their ranks. Without a solid leader to unify them,
they face their toughest survival threat yet-each other. The sisters' enmity
isn't the first time a family spat has threatened a homeland. History's Tudor
queens had a rivalry that put a wedge through England. This season, viewers are
knee deep in the Kalahari as betrayals, romances, seductions and new titillating
storylines unfurl. The Tudor family had nothing on these mobs- this brand-new
generation of meerkats gives new meaning to bad "Manors."
No matter which meerkat deserves the title, this season, another queen reigns
over the Kalahari. Emmy-award winning Stockard Channing joins the Manor as the
series' headstrong narrator. With her previous role as First Lady on The West
Wing, Channing is no stranger to politics.
Each Friday night during the scandalous 13-episode season of MEERKAT MANOR:
THE NEXT GENERATION, witness the meerkats in a battle royale of competition and
survival. MEERKAT MANOR: NEXT GENERATION takes charge at a new time, Fridays at
9 PM (ET/PT) beginning June 6 and continues thereafter every Friday at 9 PM
(ET/PT).
And, as a special Memorial Day weekend tribute, MEERKAT MANOR: THE STORY
BEGINS premieres for the first time on television Sunday, May 25, from 8-9:30 PM
(ET/PT) only on Animal Planet. Narrated by Whoopi Goldberg, MEERKAT MANOR: THE
STORY BEGINS is a 90-minute biopic about Flower's life and her rise to fame as
the leader of the Whiskers. Immediately following the film, THE MAKING OF
MEERKAT MANOR: THE STORY BEGINS premieres Sunday, May 25, from 9:30 -10 PM
(ET/PT). Then, on Friday, May 30, the film MEERKAT MANOR: THE STORY BEGINS
encores from 8-9:30 PM (ET/PT), and it immediately is followed by the half- hour
special, THE SCIENCE OF MEERKAT MANOR, beginning at 9:30 PM (ET/PT).
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