docutainment

The hybrid series, a docutainment that crossbreeds the formal respectability of a long-gestating documentary with the high-octane shenanigans of the wildest reality show, catalogs the major players in America’s big cat scene, the egomaniacs and weirdos who keep, breed, and traffic wildcats in captivity.

HBO once tried to hide its offerings as “docutainment.”

Mr. Davis, 49, is a documentary filmmaker who founded Docutainment Films in Wellington.