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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 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 worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Africa (2013 TV Series)
''Africa'' is a 2013 British television series created by the BBC Natural History Unit. It focuses on wildlife and wild habitats in Africa, and was four years in the making. It consists of six hour-long episodes and six 10-minute-long featurettes. Broadcast As ''Africa'' was broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom, the six episodes are each an hour in length, comprising the main programme and a 10-minute featurette called ''Eye to Eye'' which details the filming of a particular event. In the United States, ''Africa'' was broadcast as a seven-part series on the Discovery Channel starting from 8 January 2013. While the first five episodes are redubbed in the American version as Forest Whitaker gives narration, the sixth ("Africa: The Future") is left untouched as David Attenborough presents the episode on-screen. The seventh is a compilation of the ''Eye to Eye'' making-of featurettes. In China, it was broadcast on the Chinese language version of CCTV-9. In Singapore, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Year Of Birth Missing (living People)
A year or annus is the orbital period of a planetary body, for example, the Earth, moving in its orbit around the Sun. Due to the Earth's axial tilt, the course of a year sees the passing of the seasons, marked by change in weather, the hours of daylight, and, consequently, vegetation and soil fertility. In temperate and subpolar regions around the planet, four seasons are generally recognized: spring, summer, autumn and winter. In tropical and subtropical regions, several geographical sectors do not present defined seasons; but in the seasonal tropics, the annual wet and dry seasons are recognized and tracked. A calendar year is an approximation of the number of days of the Earth's orbital period, as counted in a given calendar. The Gregorian calendar, or modern calendar, presents its calendar year to be either a common year of 365 days or a leap year of 366 days, as do the Julian calendars. For the Gregorian calendar, the average length of the calendar year (the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Trials Of Life
''The Trials of Life: A Natural History of Behaviour'' is a BBC nature documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, first transmitted in the United Kingdom from 3 October 1990. A study in animal behaviour, it was the third in a trilogy of major series (beginning with '' Life on Earth'') that took a broad overview of nature, rather than the more specialised surveys of Attenborough's later productions. Each of the twelve 50-minute episodes features a different aspect of the journey through life, from birth to adulthood and continuation of the species through reproduction. The series was produced in conjunction with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Turner Broadcasting System Inc. The executive producer was Peter Jones and the music was composed by George Fenton. Part of David Attenborough's 'Life' series, it was preceded by ''The Living Planet'' (1984) and followed by ''Life in the Freezer'' (1993). Background The series took over three-and-a-half ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natural World (BBC TV Series)
''Natural World'' is a strand of British wildlife documentary programmes broadcast on BBC Two and BBC Two HD and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history series. It is the longest-running documentary in its genre on British television, with nearly 500 episodes broadcast since its inception in 1983. ''Natural World'' programmes are typically one-off films that take an in-depth look at particular natural history events, stories or subjects from around the globe. ''Natural World'' is produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol under the stewardship of the Series Editor, who is responsible for commissioning or acquiring content. Programmes are a mixture of in-house productions, collaborative productions with other broadcasters or acquisitions from independent producers. There are 10 programmes broadcast each year, of which approximately half are produced in-house. The series has close ties with the US series ''Nature'', broadcast by PBS. History ''Natural World' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nile (TV Series)
''The Nile'' is a 2004 BBC Television documentary that tells the history and natural history of the Nile. Production The series was produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in co-production with the Discovery Channel. Episode three includes footage from the 1971 BBC Television mini-series ''The Search for the Nile''. Reception Reviews ''The Times'' calls it an, ''enlightening BBC series,'' that, ''uses stunning photography and restrained dramatisations to pay homage to the longest river on Earth.'' The reviewer concludes, ''never mind the cardboard dramatisations – this is an heroic story.'' Ratings *Episode two (2004-03-07): 3.4 million viewers (15% audience share). Awards *Shanghai International TV Festival 2005 **Won: Magnolia Award for Best Photography in a Nature Documentary: Richard Kirby Episodes Episode one: ''Crocodiles and Kings'' Since the dawn of history the miraculous annual floodwaters have risen to transform the desert into a fertile paradise where th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Natural History
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Life In The Undergrowth
''Life in the Undergrowth'' is a BBC nature documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, first transmitted in the UK from 23 November 2005. A study of the evolution and habits of invertebrates, it was the fifth of Attenborough's specialised surveys following his major trilogy that began with ''Life on Earth (TV series), Life on Earth''. Each of the five 50-minute episodes looks at a group (or aspect) of the creatures using innovative photographic techniques. The series was produced in conjunction with Animal Planet. The executive producer was Mike Gunton, the series producer Mike Salisbury, and the music was composed by Ben Salisbury and David Poore. The Chief Scientific Consultant was Dr. George McGavin. Background Invertebrates had been largely ignored by filmmakers in the past, due to the difficulties in filming them, but advances in Lens (optics), lens and camera technology gave the makers an opportunity to film the creatures at their level. The series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galápagos (2006 TV Series)
''Galápagos'' is a three-part BBC nature documentary series exploring the natural history of the Galápagos Islands and their important role in the formation of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. It was first transmitted in the UK on BBC Two in September 2006. The series was filmed in high definition, produced by Mike Gunton and Patrick Morris of the BBC Natural History Unit and narrated by actress Tilda Swinton. The series was proposed to the BBC by the principal cinematographers Paul D. Stewart and Richard Wollocombe. Episodes The episodes, each 50 minutes in length, are as follows: * "Born of Fire" - an introduction to the volcanic islands * "Islands that Changed the World" - reveals how the islands helped shape the theory of evolution * "Forces of Change" - how life has evolved to cope with climatic and volcanic changes Some of the endemic wildlife featured in the series includes frigatebirds, marine iguanas, flightless cormorants, Galápagos tortoises, Galápagos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yellowstone (UK TV Series)
''Yellowstone'' is a BBC nature documentary series broadcast from 15 March 2009. Narrated by Peter Firth, the series takes a look at a year in the life of Yellowstone National Park, examining how its wildlife adapts to living in one of the harshest wildernesses on Earth. Yellowstone debuted on BBC Two at 8:00pm on Sunday 15 March 2009 and has three episodes. Each 50-minute episode was followed by a ten-minute film called ''Yellowstone People'', featuring visitors to the Park and locals who had assisted the production team. The series was the channel's highest-rated natural history documentary in over five years with audiences peaking at over four million. In the United States, an edited version of the series was broadcast under the title ''Yellowstone: Battle for Life''. It aired as a two-hour TV special, and premiered on Animal Planet on 22 March 2009. The series was one of the most popular titles at BBC Worldwide's annual market for international clients with pre-sales to nine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
