Mike Gunton

Mike Gunton is a British television producer and a senior executive at the BBC Natural History Unit the worlds largest production unit dedicated to wildlife filmmaking In November 2009 he became the Units 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 groundbreaking 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 coauthor with Martha Holmes of the accompanying book He codirected 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia