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Mike Gunton
Producer, Director, Writer, Editor, Additional Credits
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. In November 2009 he became the Unit's first Creative Director.
As Creative Director of BBC Studios Natural History Unit, he is responsible for bringing new and pioneering stories about the natural world to global audiences, including the BAFTA and Emmy winning Planet Earth II, which was viewed by millions worldwide. In 2018, his ground-breaking animal behaviours series, Dynasties, won a number of awards and was acclaimed by Sir David Attenborough as inventing a new genre in natural history film making. A fellow of the Royal Television Society, he also speaks internationally and is an ambassador for natural history making, BBC Studios and the natural world.
He was 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.
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As Creative Director of BBC Studios Natural History Unit, he is responsible for bringing new and pioneering stories about the natural world to global audiences, including the BAFTA and Emmy winning Planet Earth II, which was viewed by millions worldwide. In 2018, his ground-breaking animal behaviours series, Dynasties, won a number of awards and was acclaimed by Sir David Attenborough as inventing a new genre in natural history film making. A fellow of the Royal Television Society, he also speaks internationally and is an ambassador for natural history making, BBC Studios and the natural world.
He was 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.
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Known For
Filmography
| 2025 | The Americas (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2024 | Attenborough and the Giant Sea Monster · as Executive Producer |
| 2024 | Attenborough and the Jurassic Sea Monster · as Executive Producer |
| 2023 | Planet Earth III (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2022 | Prehistoric Planet (2022) (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2022 | Dynasties II (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2022 | Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History · as Executive Producer |
| 2022 | The Green Planet (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2021 | The Year Earth Changed · as Executive Producer |
| 2020 | Primates (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | Dynasties (2018) (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | Big Cats (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | Attenborough and the Sea Dragon · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Earth: One Amazing Day · as Associate Producer |
| 2017 | Planet Earth II: A World of Wonder · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Wild Tales from the Village · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Planet Earth II (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Wild West - America's Great Frontier (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Zoo Quest in Colour · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur · as Executive Producer |
| 2015 | Shark (2015) (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2015 | Attenborough's Paradise Birds · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | Life Story (TV Series) |
| 2014 | |
| 2014 | Hidden Kingdoms (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2013 | The Great British Year (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2013 | Africa (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | Attenborough and the Giant Egg · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | Madagascar (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2010 | The Great Rift: Africa's Wild Heart (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2009 | Life (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2009 | Yellowstone (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2006 | Galapagos (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2006 | Planet Earth (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2005 | The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag · as Executive Producer |
| 2005 | Life in the Undergrowth (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2005 | The Man-Eating Lions of Njombe · as Executive Producer |
| 2005 | Europe: A Natural History (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2004 | British Isles: A Natural History (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2004 | The Nile (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2003 | Monsters We Met (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2002 | Life on Air: David Attenborough's 50 Years in Television · as Executive Producer |
| 2000 | The Song of the Earth · as Executive Producer |
| 2000 | The Lost Gods of Easter Island · as Executive Producer |
| 1990 | |
| 1983 | Natural World (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 1982 | Nature (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |