Mike Gunton
Production
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.
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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
The Year Earth Changed
April 15, 2021
One Life
July 19, 2011
Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History
February 27, 2022
Tiny Giants 3D
May 24, 2014
Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur
January 24, 2016
Attenborough's Paradise Birds
January 29, 2015
Attenborough and the Sea Dragon
January 7, 2018
Attenborough and the Giant Sea Monster
January 1, 2024
Zoo Quest in Colour
May 17, 2016
The Trials of Life
October 3, 1990
Attenborough and the Giant Egg
March 2, 2011
Wild Tales From The Village
December 23, 2016
Behind the camera18
- 2025Planet Earth: Forces of Nature Executive Producer
- 2024Planet Earth: Hostile Paradise or Perfect Hell? Producer
- 2024Attenborough and the Giant Sea Monster Executive Producer
- 2022Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History Executive Producer
- 2021The Year Earth Changed Executive Producer
- 2020王朝：狐獴特辑 Director
- 2018Attenborough and the Sea Dragon Executive Producer
- 2017The Lake District: A Wild Year Executive Producer
- 2016Wild Tales From The Village Director
- 2016