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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. In Nove…
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mike Gunton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2026
Lion
TV show Executive Producer
- 2026
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2025
Kingdom
TV show Executive Producer
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2025
Planet Earth: Forces of Nature
Movie Executive Producer
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2025
The Americas
TV show Executive Producer
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2024
Planet Earth: Hostile Paradise or Perfect Hell?
Movie Producer
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2024
Attenborough and the Giant Sea Monster
Movie Executive Producer
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2023
Planet Earth III
TV show Executive Producer
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2022
Prehistoric Planet
TV show Executive Producer
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2022
Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History
Movie Executive Producer
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2022
The Green Planet
TV show Executive Producer
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2021
The Year Earth Changed
Movie Executive Producer
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2018
Dynasties
TV show Executive Producer
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2018
Big Cats
TV show Executive Producer
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2018
Attenborough and the Sea Dragon
Movie Executive Producer
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2017
The Lake District: A Wild Year
Movie Executive Producer
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2016
Wild Tales From The Village
Movie Director
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2016
Planet Earth II
TV show Executive Producer
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2016
Zoo Quest in Colour
Movie Executive Producer
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2016
Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur
Movie Executive Producer
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2015
Attenborough's Paradise Birds
Movie Executive Producer
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2014
Life Story
TV show Producer
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2014
Tiny Giants 3D
Movie Writer
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2014
Hidden Kingdoms
TV show Executive Producer
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2013
The Great British Year
TV show Executive Producer
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2013
Africa
TV show Executive Producer
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2011
One Life
Movie Writer
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2011
Attenborough and the Giant Egg
Movie Executive Producer
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2011
Madagascar
TV show Executive Producer
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2009
Life
TV show Executive Producer
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2009
Yellowstone
TV show Executive Producer
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2006
Galapagos
TV show Executive Producer
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2006
Planet Earth
TV show Executive Producer
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2005
Wild Europe
TV show Executive Producer
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2005
Europe: A Natural History
TV show Executive Producer
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2002
Life on Air: David Attenborough's 50 Years in Television
Movie Executive Producer
- 1990
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1990
Trials of Life
TV show Director
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1990
The Trials of Life
Movie Producer
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Hidden Planet
TV show Executive Producer
