Question: What is the production focus of the company that went on to produce a hit show by following families of of meerkats in the Kalahari Desert?

 Founded on 8 July 1968, by noted documentary filmmaker Gerald Thompson, the independent film company broke new ground in the world of documentaries, using new filming techniques and capturing footage of never before filmed activities of its various subjects.  In 1996, Oxford Scientific Films was sold to Circle Communications, where it retained its own identity as a division within the company. Oxford Scientific Films (OSF) is a British company that produces natural history and documentary programmes.  The following year, Circle Communications was taken over by Southern Star Entertainment UK.  Under the new ownership, Oxford Scientific Films continued to enhance its reputation for innovative film-making, producing multiple award-winning series and films, including the highly acclaimed Animal Planet series, "Meerkat Manor". <SEP> The Meerkats, also known as Meerkats: The Movie, is a feature-length 2008 British wildlife fiction film which anthropomorphises the daily struggles of a clan of meerkats in the Kalahari Desert.  It was produced by BBC Films and The Weinstein Company, and filmed by the award-winning BBC Natural History Unit.  It is the debut directorial feature of James Honeyborne, previously a producer of natural history programmes for television.  The worldwide premiere was held at the Dinard Film Festival, France in October 2008, expanding to a wide release the following week.  The film was released in 2009, on 7 August in the UK.  A US date has not yet been announced.  This was dedicated to actor Paul Newman, who died in 2008, shortly before this movie was released. <SEP>  Blending more traditional animal documentary style footage with dramatic narration, the series told the story of the Whiskers, one of more than a dozen families of meerkats in the Kalahari Desert being studied as part of the Kalahari Meerkat Project, a long-term field study into the ecological causes and evolutionary consequences of the cooperative nature of meerkats.  The original programme was narrated by Bill Nighy, with the narration redubbed by Mike Goldman for the Australian airings and Sean Astin for the American broadcasts. Meerkat Manor is a British television programme produced by Oxford Scientific Films for Animal Planet International that premiered in September 2005 and ran for four series until its cancellation in August 2008.  The fourth series, subtitled "The Next Generation", saw Stockard Channing replacing Astin as the narrator in the American dubbing. <SEP> The meerkat or suricate ("Suricata suricatta") is a small carnivoran belonging to the mongoose family (Herpestidae).  It is the only member of the genus Suricata.  Meerkats live in all parts of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana, in much of the Namib Desert in Namibia and southwestern Angola, and in South Africa.  A group of meerkats is called a "mob", "gang" or "clan".  A meerkat clan often contains about 20 meerkats, but some super-families have 50 or more members.  In captivity, meerkats have an average life span of 12–14 years, and about half this in the wild.