Tubegazing
Life is Wild
(The CW, 8 p.m., Oct. 7):
South Africa is indeed full of wild animals, but the rugged countryside is getting increasingly crowded with creatures of the urban sort these days. This tale of a consummately cosmopolitan 鈥� and deeply dysfunctional 鈥� Manhattan family that treks to the wild to tame itself is a remake of a current BBC America series. Just like the original, the exotic locale is reason enough to watch. But "Life is Wild" suffers a bit from being skewed to the CW's younger demographic 鈥� the heavy teen angst occasionally overshadows even the lions. Grade: B
鈥� Gloria Goodale
