Animal Planet US launches new season of Infested

MUMBAI: US broadcaster Animal planet kicked off a new season of ?Infested!? on 30 December 2011 with seven hour-long episodes and two "best-of" episodes.

?Infested!? unearths the real-life horror stories of ordinary people plagued by extraordinary infestations inside their homes.

It is not about the occasional bug slipping through a crack in a wall - it?s a full-on war for the victims whose nightmares are relived this season. Every one of these victims has suffered either physical harm or psychological trauma. Some of them may never feel safe and sound again. This season, viewers will get up close and personal with nature?s nastiest squatters, including spiders, opossums, bedbugs, scorpions, bats and rats - all of which can spill out from the tiniest orifices and create a living terror.

In the first episode, a young family moves into a new home in Kentucky only to discover a protected species of bat that cannot be disturbed. Then, a Pennsylvania household combats a deluge of cockroaches and learns that these bugs crawled their way from the neighbor?s house. Across the country in California, a single mom battles the growing number of filthy rodents raging a riot through her home.

Future episodes become deadly when a Tennessee father fights for his life after he?s bitten by brown recluse spiders. Each story is enhanced by macro-lens photography and CGI recreations, which reveal how these critters strip humans of the four walls that protect them from the outside world.