Meerkat Manor is a British television programme produced by Oxford Scientific Films for Animal Planet International. Blending more traditional animal documentary style footage with dramatic narration, the series tells the story of the Whiskers, one of over a dozen families of meerkats in the Kalahari Desert being studied as part of the Kalahari Meerkat Project, a long-term field study into the ecological causes and evolutionary consequences of the cooperative nature of meerkats. The original programme is narrated by Bill Nighy, with the narration redubbed by Mike Goldman for the Australian airings and Sean Astin for the American broadcasts.

Meerkat Manor premiered in the United Kingdom on September 12, 2005, and the first 13-episode series concluded on October 24, 2005. On the success of the series in the UK, Animal Planet started broadcasting the series on its national channels in Australia, Canada, and the US. The series then premiered in the United States on June 9, 2006, with the first season airing through August 25, 2006. The second series aired simultaneously in both the US and the UK, starting September 29, 2006. The third series premiered in the United States on August 10, 2007, followed in the UK on September 10, 2007, and in Canada on October 3, 2007. Because each channel had different broadcasting schedules, the UK sequence of new episodes ended well before those in the US and Canada. In the UK, a new episode was aired every weeknight, while in North America, new episodes were shown weekly, on Friday and Wednesday respectively. The series is now available in more than 160 other countries.

Although the show faced criticism from viewers for not intervening when a meerkat was injured and faced death, as a whole Meerkat Manor has enjoyed considerable success and is now Animal Planet's top series, both on the cable channel and through its video-on-demand service. The show's experimental format broke new ground in animal documentary filming techniques and allowed viewers a long term, intimate look into the lives of its meerkat stars, breaking the traditional wall between viewer and subject found with most documentaries.

In 2007, Meerkat Manor was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards. It has won three awards at the 2006 Omni Awards, and at the 2006 and 2007 New York Festivals Award Galas. All three series of the programme have been released to DVD in both Region 1 and Region 2. In 2007, a book entitled Meerkat Manor - The Story of Flower of the Kalahari was released in the UK, detailing the life of Flower and the Whiskers before the series filming began. An upcoming feature film that will also act as a prequel to the series is due to be released in 2008.

This is a documentary drama series which follows a meerkat family in the Kalahari Desert, South Africa, called the Whiskers. Flower is the leader/dominant female of the group, Zaphod is her partner and dominant male, Youssarian is Zaphod's younger brother and Flower's ex-lover and Mozart, Tosca and Shakespeare are all children of Flower. In our journey with this group we'll follow several intriguing events like: Fights with arch rival group the Lazuli; storms; death; family politics and the disappearance of a meerkat we had gotten to know very well. Written by SBMag