# Stacey Dooley visits Kangaroo Island’s post-fire wildlife refuge in new travel series

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/tv-tonight-stacey-dooley-takes-an-australian-adventure-with-a-twist/
- Published: 2026-11-08T06:15:32+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-08T06:47:26+00:00
- Original publisher: The Guardian (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/nov/08/tv-tonight-stacey-dooley-takes-an-australian-adventure-with-a-twist
- Topics: Celebrity, Culture, Entertainment, TV

## Key points

- Stacey Dooley explores Kangaroo Island’s recovery after bushfires.
- A refuge cares for orphaned kangaroos.
- Blue Planet III explores life in the open ocean.

## Summary

Stacey Dooley makes her first travel-show visit to neglected parts of Australia, beginning on Kangaroo Island, where wildlife and communities are recovering from the devastating 2019–20 bushfires. She meets a couple who set up a refuge for orphaned kangaroos after feeling lost in the aftermath.

The evening’s other highlights include the finale of a vampire comedy, a new Blue Planet III episode about open-ocean life and several dramas and films. The guide also features fishing banter in Shetland, Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot, Daniel Kaluuya and Kibwe Tavares’s near-future London film The Kitchen, and football and rugby fixtures, including England v Australia.

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