Mike Gunton

Mike Gunton is a British television producer and a senior executive at the BBC Natural History Unit, the world's largest production unit dedicated to wildlife film-making.[1] In November 2009 he became the Unit's first Creative Director.[2]

Mike Gunton presenting a talk about Planet Earth II at the Cambridge University Zoology Department in September 2017

He is best known as the executive producer of Life, a nature documentary series which revealed the adaptive survival strategies of animals around the world, and as the co-author (with Martha Holmes) of the accompanying book. He co-directed (with Holmes) a feature film version of Life, and was the executive producer of a major BBC One series on African wildlife, broadcast in 2013.[3]

Film and TV credits
  • Dynasties (2018) - executive producer
  • Planet Earth II (2016) - executive producer
  • Life Story (2014) - executive producer
  • Hidden Kingdoms (2014) - executive producer
  • Africa (2013) - executive producer
  • One Life (2011) - co-director
  • Madagascar (2011) - executive producer
  • The Great Rift: Africa's Wild Heart (2010) - executive producer
  • Life (2009) - executive producer
  • Yellowstone (2009) – executive producer
  • Galápagos (2006) – executive producer
  • Life in the Undergrowth (2005) – executive producer
  • Europe: A Natural History (2005) – executive producer
  • Journey of Life (2005) – executive producer
  • Nile (2004) – executive producer
  • British Isles: A Natural History (2004) – executive producer
  • Natural World (2001-2004) – series editor
  • Steve Leonard's Extreme Animals (2002) - executive producer
  • Steve Leonard's Ultimate Killers (1999-2001) - executive producer
  • Animal People (1997-1999) – series producer
  • Violent Planet (1999) - series producer
  • Tales from the Riverbank (1997) - series producer
  • Natural Neighbours (1994) - series producer
  • The Trials of Life (1990) – producer
Episode "Finding Food"
Episode "Home Making"
Episode "Once More into the Termite Mound: The Making of The Trials of Life"

References
  1. "Directory of Production Companies". The International Association of Wildlife Filmmakers. Archived from the original on 2010-08-29. Retrieved 2009-01-20.
  2. Rushton, Katherine (2009-11-19). "NHU head Jackson makes mark with key exec changes". Broadcast magazine.
  3. "BBC One explores African continent in major new commission for Bristol's Natural History Unit". BBC Press Office. 2010-04-29.
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