{"id":880221,"date":"2021-10-14T17:30:08","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T21:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=880221"},"modified":"2021-10-14T17:30:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T21:30:11","slug":"carole-baskin-getting-her-own-docuseries-to-investigate-joe-exotic-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/carole-baskin-getting-her-own-docuseries-to-investigate-joe-exotic-zoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Carole Baskin Getting Her Own Docuseries To Investigate Joe Exotic Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcarole-baskin-getting-her-own-docuseries-to-investigate-joe-exotic-zoo%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=880221&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>More than a year after \u201cTiger King\u201d transfixed viewers who were holed up at home during the first COVID-19 lockdowns, Joe Exotic\u2019s famous cat lady nemesis is getting her own docuseries.<\/p>\n<p>Carole Baskin\u2019s new Discovery+ docuseries, \u201cCarole Baskin\u2019s Cage Fight,\u201d will follow Baskin as she investigates animal abuse of big cats at the Oklahoma zoo once run by her rival, Joe Exotic.<\/p>\n<p>The docuseries will hit the streaming service on November 13.<\/p>\n<p>Baskin, who runs Big Cat Rescue, shot to national notoriety last year thanks to Netflix\u2019s \u201cTiger King,\u201d which focused mostly on Joe Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, but also documented his and Baskin\u2019s long and complicated rivalry in detail.<\/p>\n<p>Exotic was convicted in 2019 of a murder-for-hire plot to kill Baskin and is now serving a 22-year sentence in federal prison in Texas. He was also convicted on 17 federal charges of animal abuse.<\/p>\n<p>A judge has since awarded the G.W. Zoo property to Baskin.<\/p>\n<p>The series \u201creveals Carole\u2019s story in her own words,\u201d Amy Introcaso-Davis, executive VP development and production factual programming at Discovery,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/carole-baskin-to-investigate-treatment-of-big-cats-at-joe-exotics-former-zoo-in-discovery-docu-series-exclusive-1235031322\/\">told<\/a> The Hollywood Reporter. \u201cViewers will see this larger-than-life personality in the fight for her beloved big cats\u2019 lives as she uncovers and stops the exploitation of these animals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe story that gripped the world barely scratched the surface,\u201d the trailer for Baskin\u2019s new series says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey, all you cool cats and kittens, it\u2019s Carole Baskin,\u201d Baskin says in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vX0yBTv72_Y&amp;ab_channel=DiscoveryPress\">trailer<\/a>, using her signature greeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were told \u2018Tiger King\u2019 was a documentary about the abuse of wild animals,\u201d Baskin continues. \u201cIt turned out to be a reality TV show at best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been going after animal exploiters for decades,\u201d she says. \u201cJoe Exotic is one of them, and he\u2019s in jail. I want to go on to bringing down the next bad guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to catch you,\u201d she promises. \u201cIf you\u2019re abusing big cats, I\u2019m coming for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Baskin, who went on ABC\u2019s \u201cDancing With the Stars\u201d<em>&nbsp;<\/em>last year, will even get help in her investigation from Joe Exotic\u2019s niece, who worked at G.W. Zoo for much of her childhood.<\/p>\n<p>Her husband, Howard, will also be featured in the series. \u201cTiger King\u201d toyed with speculation that Baskin played a role in the disappearance of her second husband, Don Lewis, a rumor she has denied, accusing the series of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/tiger-king-star-carole-baskin-denies-killing-husband-don-lewis-slams-netflix-documentary\">having<\/a> the \u201csole goal of being as salacious and sensational as possible to draw viewers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 58-year-old Exotic is currently waiting to be re-sentenced, as his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a year after \u201cTiger King\u201d transfixed viewers who were holed up at home during the first COVID-19 lockdowns, Joe Exotic\u2019s famous cat lady nemesis is getting her own docuseries.Carole Baskin\u2019s new Discovery+ docuseries, \u201cCarole Baskin\u2019s Cage Fight,\u201d will follow Baskin as she investigates animal abuse of big cats at the Oklahoma zoo once run by her rival, Joe Exotic.The docuseries will hit the streaming service on November 13.Baskin, who runs Big Cat Rescue, shot to national notoriety last year thanks to Netflix\u2019s \u201cTiger King,\u201d which focused mostly on Joe Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, but also documented his and Baskin\u2019s long and complicated rivalry in detail.Exotic was convicted in 2019 of a murder-for-hire plot to kill Baskin and is now serving a 22-year sentence in federal prison in Texas. He was also convicted on 17 federal charges of animal abuse.A judge has since awarded the G.W. Zoo property to Baskin.The series \u201creveals Carole\u2019s story in her own words,\u201d Amy Introcaso-Davis, executive VP development and production factual programming at Discovery,\u00a0told The Hollywood Reporter. \u201cViewers will see this larger-than-life personality in the fight for her beloved big cats\u2019 lives as she uncovers and stops the exploitation of these animals.\u201d\u201cThe story that gripped the world barely scratched the surface,\u201d the trailer for Baskin\u2019s new series says.\u201cHey, all you cool cats and kittens, it\u2019s Carole Baskin,\u201d Baskin says in the trailer, using her signature greeting.\u201cWe were told \u2018Tiger King\u2019 was a documentary about the abuse of wild animals,\u201d Baskin continues. \u201cIt turned out to be a reality TV show at best.\u201d\u201cI\u2019ve been going after animal exploiters for decades,\u201d she says. \u201cJoe Exotic is one of them, and he\u2019s in jail. I want to go on to bringing down the next bad guy.\u201d\u201cWe are going to catch you,\u201d she promises. \u201cIf you\u2019re abusing big cats, I\u2019m coming for you.\u201dBaskin, who went on ABC\u2019s \u201cDancing With the Stars\u201d\u00a0last year, will even get help in her investigation from Joe Exotic\u2019s niece, who worked at G.W. Zoo for much of her childhood.Her husband, Howard, will also be featured in the series. \u201cTiger King\u201d toyed with speculation that Baskin played a role in the disappearance of her second husband, Don Lewis, a rumor she has denied, accusing the series of having the \u201csole goal of being as salacious and sensational as possible to draw viewers.\u201dThe 58-year-old Exotic is currently waiting to be re-sentenced, as his original sentence was ruled to have been harsh in July. Exotic had hoped to receive a presidential pardon from former President Donald Trump, but Trump left office without granting him one, a development that Baskin said left her relieved.\u201cI\u2019m taking a deep breath because I feel such a sense of relief,\u201d she said in January.\u00a0\u201cFrom the very time that he was sentenced I have worried about there being a presidential pardon that could undo all of the hard work that went into bringing this person to justice. When today at noon a new president was sworn in, I felt like I was finally safe from that threat.\u201dBaskin\u2019s docuseries is produced by ITV America\u2019s Thinkfactory Media.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-880221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}