Desert Vet to Return to Nine Network Australia

Desert Vet, a factual series from indie Australian production house Projucer and cinematographer Tim Small that aired on the Nine Network, has been renewed for a second season to bow later this year.

The new season will have an increased number of episodes, from four to six. Internationally, the show previously aired in prime time on UKTV’s Eden Channel in December 2019 and also screened in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe on ViaSat’s Nature Channel. It has just been acquired by Outdoor Channel Asia, beaming the series to some 10 million homes across the region.

Season one of Desert Vet was produced using Projucer’s innovative reverse-engineered funding model, making up their production budget via finance from domestic and international networks, hand-selected brand partners who share the producer’s vision and Screen Australia.

Projucer’s Matty Roberts will again be co-creator, writer, executive producer and director of the series with Joshua Capelin, co-founder of Projucer, and will partner with Small as co-director, co-producer and director of production.

Roberts hopes this season will also highlight the devastating impact on Australian wildlife that the recent fires and weather events across Australia. The series will visit Kangaroo Island, where the Koala population has become almost endangered, and bunker down in the Karratha Vet Hospital during a Category 4 tropical cyclone. “We see the Desert Vet series as our way to share animal stories as they relate to Australia’s narrative right now,” Roberts said. “As the makers, we are lucky to have a platform to capture and share the tireless and passionate efforts that some people make to protect, conserve—in some cases save—both wild and domestic animals that give us so much joy and companionship as a society.”

Roberts continued, “Season two will see even more animal emergencies and heartwarming stories continue across the Pets & Vets outback clinics, as well as some wondrous and unique marine animal conservation narratives, all led by our key cast, the Fenny family. Joining the Fenny’s will be a supporting cast of passionate vets, zoologists, aquarists, marine scientists, jillaroo’s and dozens of animals, both domestic and wild!”