The Polar Bear Family & Me

One of the scores of "Gordon Buchanan meets some nature" docs - he's a charmingly earnest presence as always but this three-parter stretches the format to breaking point a little. Not only that but he got in terrible trouble for sitting in his little plastic box and goading bears to paw at him. Parts two and three descend into quite a tedious game of Gordon-and-Bear (as opposed to cat and mouse) where he worriedly tracks the bear family around an archipelago and wonders if they're alive or not. For ... two straight hours of television. Of all the animal families to tack yourself to, the mysterious and treacherous polar bear is probably one he shouldn't have done it with.