John Bishop's Gorilla Adventure

2015 | 47 minutes | 7.5 ★ (1)

John Bishop's Gorilla Adventure
  • Overview

    John Bishop encounters one of the most endangered animals on Earth, and discovers they and his family have more in common than he ever imagined. Filming in the jungles of Rwanda for John Bishop’s Gorilla Adventure, the comedian realises adolescent male mountain gorillas are just like his teenage sons – bulging muscles but no sense. Plus they fart, flirt and pick their noses. We follow John as he joins a group of vets who have dedicated their lives to saving the, sadly, precious few mountain gorillas left in the wild rugged mountains and valleys between the borders of Rwanda, Congo and Uganda, which were made famous to UK viewers by David Attenborough’s iconic sequence filmed among them in the 1970s.

  • Release Date

    28 December 2015

  • DirectingBen Duncan
  • Budget

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  • Revenue

    $0.00

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