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Animal Planet gives ‘The Aquarium’ about Georgia Aquarium a second season

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Credit: Addison Hill

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Aug 30, 2019

Originally posted Saturday, August 31, 2019 by RODNEY HO/rho@ajc.com on his AJC Radio & TV Talk blog

Animal Planet is going to give more love to the Georgia Aquarium via its reality show “The Aquarium” with a second season.

The first season did well for the network as the top new series this year to date among 25 to 54 year olds, based on Nielsen ratings.

“The Aquarium” is set up to highlight the large operation’s strengths, showing how the animals bond with the staff and its global conservation efforts.

Season one followed the aquarium’s biologists, researchers and aquarists during their day-to-day activities with sea otters, penguins, whale sharks and sea turtles, to name a few.

Explore>>RELATED: My initial story about “The Aquarium” when it debuted in February, 2019

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Rodney Ho writes about entertainment for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution including TV, radio, film, comedy and all things in between. A native New Yorker, he has covered education at The Virginian-Pilot, small business for The Wall Street Journal and a host of beats at the AJC over 20-plus years. He loves tennis, pop culture & seeing live events.

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