Latest in Natural History Unit

Sky Studios Strikes Podcast-To-Screen Deal With Tortoise Media Sky Studios has struck an exclusive multi-year first look deal with Tortoise Media to turn the news outlet’s podcasts into TV shows. Tortoise is highly-respected for a string of award-winning podcasts including Sweet Bobby and Hoaxed…

The BBC Factual department has unveiled a vast slate including a natural history series following four animal families over four years and shows commemorating the 40th anniversaries of the Falklands War and AIDS crisis. At an event yesterday in London, Fiona Campbell, Acting Head of Factual, Arts and Classical Music…

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC Studios Natural History Unit (NHU) is seeking a Head of Development, with incumbent Gavin Boyland moving to series-produce an unannounced major landmark brand that he has developed for the division. A job advert was issued earlier this week for one of the most senior roles within the NHU, overseeing…

The BBC is to spotlight Asia in a landmark natural history series and David Attenborough will join a mammoth archaeological dig, as the UK broadcaster unveils its latest factual slate. BBC Studios Natural History Unit is behind Asia (working title), the latest ambitious BBC1 blue-chip that will tell the story of the…

Sir David Attenborough’s latest BBC natural history landmark The Green Planet has sold to networks worldwide ahead of next week’s Mipcom. Producer-distributor BBC Studios revealed a raft of pre-sales today to more than a dozen territories, including Channel Nine in Australia, TVNZ in New Zealand, Radio-Canada and BBC…

The BBC has partnered with PBS on a new big-budget natural history series, The Green Planet, while Sir David Attenborough is also back with another new landmark factual project with BBC America. The Green Planet (w/t) is the latest in a long line of major series from the BBC's Natural History Unit (NHU) following the…

Blue Planet II creator and exec producer James Honeyborne and director Renée Godfrey have launched their own production company. The pair have established Freeborne Media to produce "powerful" and "impactful" nature and science documentaries. The company will be based in Bristol in the UK – widely seen as the center…