PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Last April, extreme angler and biologist Jeremy Wade searched the world for legendary and flesh-eating freshwater fish with the debut of RIVER MONSTERS on Animal Planet, pulling in monster-sized ratings.

Animal Planet said its nature adventure show River Monsters has become the U.S. network's best-performing series ever. The show, which stars extreme angler and biologist Jeremy Wade, has been renewed for a second season, which is set to start filming shortly for a spring 2010 premiere.

- Season Finale Helps Network Rank Fifth at 10 PM Among Cable in P18-49 - - Season Two of RIVER MONSTERS to Begin Filming Shortly and Launch in Spring 2010 - NEW YORK, May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Animal Planet's RIVER MONSTERS, hosted by extreme angler and biologist Jeremy Wade, reeled in an average of more than a million households (1.05M) across its seven premiere episodes, making it the best-performing series in network history.

- Extreme Angler Jeremy Wade Explores the Murky Waters of the Globe in New Seven-Part Series - NEW YORK, March 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Did a large catfish attack a teenager in a German lake? Did a school of piranha eat flesh down to the bone of a busload of passengers that crashed in an Amazonian river? Over the ages, yarns have been spun that fish have actually preyed on man.