Manori Ravindran International EditorFor the first time in its 63-year history, BBC Studios’ renowned Natural History Unit is setting up shop outside the U.K.
In 2021, the NHU will launch a permanent satellite office in Los Angeles.The NHU is behind some of the world’s most iconic natural history programs, including “Blue Planet II” and “Planet Earth II,” which have been watched by more than a billion people globally.
The new U.S. outfit will allow the production unit to better serve its growing roster of American buyers, with a laser focus on the streamers.In the last 18 months alone, the unit has won projects with Apple TV Plus (“Prehistoric Planets”) and NBCUniversal (10-part landmark series “The New World”), as well as PBS (“The Green.
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