News

  1. BBC One "Our Changing Planet" highest rated show in time slot

    Our Changing Planet premiered at 7pm on BBC One. Live audience peaked at 3.4 million viewers - the highest rated show across its terrestrial time slot. The Guardian described it as "a treat from the off...Classic Beeb wildlife magic."

    https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/apr/23/the-week-in-tv-dead-ringers-the-hunt-for-raoul-moat-the-diplomat-our-changing-planet-reviews

  2. Good news announced about the largest dam removal in U.S. history.

    I made Changing Planet with the BBC and PBS in 2022 featuring the Yurok Tribe’s fight to protect the health of the Klamath River, a precious spawning habitat for chinook salmon and endangered coho salmon.
    Great to see this next giant step achieved in that battle.

    https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N32D219

  3. PBS to premiere Bolsonaro doc ahead of Brazilian election in October

    In the run-up to the hotly contested 2022 Brazilian Presidential election, I made this feature length doc Rise of the Bolsonaros for PBS which examines the extraordinary rise of this controversial dynasty from relative obscurity to the highest office in the country.

    https://realscreen.com/2022/08/16/pbs-to-premiere-bolsonaro-doc-ahead-of-brazilian-election-in-october/

  4. International distribution for doc special “Fukushima: Nature In The Danger Zone"

    Distributor Woodcut International has inked sales in the US, SEA, UK Ireland and Australia for the factual doc special Fukushima: Nature in the Danger Zone.

    Produced by Paul Wooding (Woodcut West), Fukushima: Nature in the Danger Zone (1 x 60’) was sold to Discovery US, Discovery SEA, TG4 (Ireland) UKTV and SBS.

    On 11 March 2011, a 15-metre tsunami caused the second biggest nuclear accident to affect our planet. All three cores of the Fukushima Daiichi reactors exploded. Overnight, 460,000 people were displaced and unable to return, leaving their livelihoods and homes behind in deserted, frozen-in-time ghost towns. Though they didn’t stay deserted for long. In this one hour special a camera crew and team of world-renowned scientists return to the hazardous nuclear zone that Fukushima wildlife have reclaimed as their own and uncover the natural secrets of how certain animals don’t just survive but actually thrive against all the odds in such a toxic environment.

    http://tinyurl.com/4d3xj9v4

  5. Jamie Oliver Food Fight influences NHS 10 Year plan

    Good news! Following the broadcast on Channel 4 of a nutrition4medics Food campaign in Jamie and Jimmy's Friday Night Feast that I produced, the NHS announced their next 10 year health policy with a recommendation to help medical students up their nutritional training.