Bear Hijacks Camera – The Bear Family and Me – BBC Two

More about this programme: www.bbc.co.uk Juliette’s cubs are mischievous and very inquisitive. After stealing Gordon’s glove and chewing on his camera bag, one of the cubs tries his hand at filming before pulling the camera over. This series follows wildlife cameraman, Gordon Buchanan, as he spends a year with a family of wild Black Bears. Gordon arrives in the forests of Minnesota in spring just as the bears are coming out of their dens. Before he can start filming, he faces a major challenge – to earn the bears’ trust. He must overcome his fear, Black Bears have a dangerous reputation and attack more people than any other bear in the world. But once he meets, ‘Lily’, an easy-going young mother bear and her cub, ‘Hope’, Gordon is smitten. What unfolds is pure drama. Could this change the way we think about bears?