Given that Badger watch was getting millions of viewers, and that from memory it's an offence to disturb badgers your idea falls at that hurdle..
It also falls at the hurdle that things like Badgerwatch have presenters who can fill in the boring bits, and can have cameras set up to watch the sett all day and show highlights when it's not doing much.
I have badgers in my garden, I don't have a clue where they live, neither do any of my neighbours, I do know they've been seen on a busy (town centre) road at night as wll, but that doesn't really assist in locating their home.
What I do know is that at the first sign of a human being around they move, and they move very fast through ground that I, as a human cannot go through (for example they go through small holes in fences, they can make their way over a stream faster than I can get down the bank without breaking my neck).
And that is just one of the British species of wildlife that is fairly big and easy to locate, try getting to see a kingfisher in the wild catching it's food (we've got some of them in the field next to us, I've seen them feeding about 3 times in twenty years, including the time I ended up sitting quietly for about an hour after catching a glimpse of one), let alone the foreign wildlife or underwater.
The BBC tend to show a heck of a lot of stuff the commercial channels wouldn't show, either because it's "too risky" (IE they don't know if enough viewers will tune in to keep their customers happy*), or too critical of products - can anyone recall the last time ITV let alone Sky did any consumer affairs programming that was critical of big brands?
Top Gear apparently, despite being seen by some as a great advert for the car companies, has seriously ruffled almost all the manufacturers feathers at one point or another (there is a tale about I think a foreign car exec upon seeing one of their cars being criticized by Clarkson and co calling up the Euro HQ to demand the advertising was pulled on the channel that showed it - not realising it was on a non ad funded channel).
*We, the viewers are not the customers of most TV stations, we're the product tempted in with the shows, the customer is almost always the advertisers (even Sky aren't viewer driven as they sell adverts).
It also falls at the hurdle that things like Badgerwatch have presenters who can fill in the boring bits, and can have cameras set up to watch the sett all day and show highlights when it's not doing much.
I have badgers in my garden, I don't have a clue where they live, neither do any of my neighbours, I do know they've been seen on a busy (town centre) road at night as wll, but that doesn't really assist in locating their home.
What I do know is that at the first sign of a human being around they move, and they move very fast through ground that I, as a human cannot go through (for example they go through small holes in fences, they can make their way over a stream faster than I can get down the bank without breaking my neck).
And that is just one of the British species of wildlife that is fairly big and easy to locate, try getting to see a kingfisher in the wild catching it's food (we've got some of them in the field next to us, I've seen them feeding about 3 times in twenty years, including the time I ended up sitting quietly for about an hour after catching a glimpse of one), let alone the foreign wildlife or underwater.
The BBC tend to show a heck of a lot of stuff the commercial channels wouldn't show, either because it's "too risky" (IE they don't know if enough viewers will tune in to keep their customers happy*), or too critical of products - can anyone recall the last time ITV let alone Sky did any consumer affairs programming that was critical of big brands?
Top Gear apparently, despite being seen by some as a great advert for the car companies, has seriously ruffled almost all the manufacturers feathers at one point or another (there is a tale about I think a foreign car exec upon seeing one of their cars being criticized by Clarkson and co calling up the Euro HQ to demand the advertising was pulled on the channel that showed it - not realising it was on a non ad funded channel).
*We, the viewers are not the customers of most TV stations, we're the product tempted in with the shows, the customer is almost always the advertisers (even Sky aren't viewer driven as they sell adverts).
