For full TV listings for the week, see thetimes.co.uk/tvplannerViewing guide, by Joe ClayAnimals After DarkChannel 5, 8pmThis week Channel 5 treads gently on Springwatch’s toes with a three-part series (showing on consecutive nights) revealing what Britain’s wildlife gets up to when darkness falls. The presenting team includes the Springwatch alumnus Steve Backshall, with Miranda Krestovnikoff, Lindsey Chapman and Philippa Forrester, but this is more of a straightforward wildlife documentary series than the live “event TV” that Springwatch has become. Using low-light camera technology, the series will “reveal the animal stories our eyes can’t see” and Backshall begins at the Vale Wildlife Hospital and Rehabilitation Centre in Gloucestershire, one of the country’s biggest hedgehog hospitals. The facility has 350 hedgehogs (voted…

Source: The Times January 01, 2019 23:48 UTC