Carole Baskin working on new documentary focusing on big cat conservation The former "Dancing With the Stars" contestant is teaming up with Knoxville, Tenn., filmmakers to make a documentary about big cat conservation and the cruelty of keeping them in small zoos and parks. Baskin said she felt like the Netflix show was a missed opportunity to do important work. She wanted to do the series to expose how

We spoke to Carole Baskin, who said this Knoxville-led tiger film can be 'Earth changing' Ryan Wilusz,  Knoxville News Sentinel Carole Baskin, an activist for big cats, sat down and binge-watched "Tiger King" on Netflix just like everybody else. The end product, which she believed would resemble a "Blackfish" for tigers, had almost nothing to do with saving big cats, she said — a real "missed opportunity" for the film that