Eight series have followed, most recently Big Cat Live, a live broadcast from the Mara in 2008. The first series, broadcast on BBC One in 1996, was developed and jointly produced by Keith Scholey, who would go on to become Head of the BBC's Natural History Unit. ( June 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)īig Cat Diary, also known as Big Cat Week or Big Cat Live, is a long-running nature documentary series on BBC television which followed the lives of African big cats in Kenya's Maasai Mara. Please help improve this article if you can. It reads like a review of the TV show or a story of the characters. The specific problem is: This article has too many specific details. This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.