'When animals attack . . ." is both the name of one of those ridiculous docu-specials Fox used to run, drawing an audience in with salacious footage of nonhumans going berserk, and the premise of Zoo, the adaptation of the James Patterson novel of the same name. Perhaps those Fox specials had more depth than this CBS summer offering, which premieres at 9 p.m. Tuesday. Mad Men's James Wolk plays Jackson Oz, a guy with the kind of name that exists only in paperback airplane thrillers. An American expat, he has decamped to Botswana to give safari tours and escape the legacy of his professor father, who believed animals would one day organize and revolt against the dominant species. That, of...
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