Big Cat Diary, also known as
Big Cat Week or
Big Cat Live according to the format of the show,was a long-running
nature documentary series on
BBC television which follows the lives of African
big cats in
Kenya's
Maasai Mara. 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. Eight further series have followed, most recently
Big Cat Live, a live broadcast from the Mara in 2008.