Animal Planet orders a new show, Frontier Earth with Dave Salmoni, and renews several other shows with further seasons.

Animal Planet (DStv 264) is starting a brand-new TV show, Frontier Earth with Dave Salmoni, as the channel also renewed several order shows.

Frontier Earth with Dave Salmoni willgo in search of nature's ''most elusive inhabitants'' according to the channel in 6 episodes, ranging from killer whales and Arizona badland ants, to komodo dragons, tigers as well as the slow loris and Sifaka lemurs.

The Afterlife: Hippo and The Afterlife: Elephant are new Animal Planet shows presented as beautiful and gripping ''time-reversed'' nature odysseys, with stories of animals told in reverse to show how life follows death.

Polar Bear family and Me is a film by the award-winning filmmaker Gordon Buchanan who follows a polar bear cub's struggle to survive against all odds.

Animal Planet has also ordered new seasons of the shows Pit Boss, My Cat From Hell and Pit Bulls and Parolees.