Mike Gunton

About

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...

Known for

Planet EarthSeries • 2006Prehistoric PlanetSeries • 2022Planet Earth IISeries • 2016LionSeries • 2026Planet Earth IIISeries • 2023LifeSeries • 2009The Year Earth ChangedMovie • 2021DynastiesSeries • 2018The AmericasSeries • 2025The Green PlanetSeries • 2022GalapagosSeries • 2006AfricaSeries • 2013Big CatsSeries • 2018Trials of LifeSeries • 1990MadagascarSeries • 2011Life StorySeries • 2014YellowstoneSeries • 2009Fantastic Beasts: A Natural HistoryMovie • 2022Attenborough and the Giant DinosaurMovie • 2016Attenborough's Paradise BirdsMovie • 2015One LifeMovie • 2011Tiny Giants 3DMovie • 2014