Ellen DeGeneres is coming back to television.
The former talk-display host has teamed up with Discovery Channel for “Conserving the Gorillas: Ellen’s Subsequent Experience,” which, according to a push launch, leans into her “passion and motivation to animals, and admiration for earth-renowned primatologist, Dian Fossey.”
“What commences as Portia de Rossi’s straightforward need to appear up with a pleasant birthday reward for her wife, Ellen DeGeneres, snowballs into a thing bigger than any one could have imagined,” the announcement states. “The few find them selves embarking on a person of the premier architectural and landscaping projects in the heritage of Rwanda, only to collide with challenges like volcanoes, earthquakes, and a world pandemic.”
DeGenere experienced had a dream of shielding Fossey’s legacy by making the The Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund in Rwanda.
“Each single point has led me to just have a massive more than enough system to say, ‘Look at perform Dian Fossey did,'” DeGeneres claims in the documentary. “There’s almost nothing that keeps you a lot more current, additional in the minute, than sitting down with gorillas.”
“Preserving the Gorillas: Ellen’s Upcoming Adventure” is set to premiere on Saturday, Sept. 23 in honor of Entire world Gorilla Working day. (Discovery Channel, Animal Plant, Max and Discovery+ are owned by CNN’s dad or mum firm.)
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