James Honeyborne

James Honeyborne is the creative director of Freeborne Media, he previously worked as an executive producer at the

BBC Natural History Unit The BBC Studios Natural History Unit (NHU) is a department of BBC Studios that produces television, radio and online content with a natural history or wildlife theme. It is best known for its highly regarded nature documentaries, including '' ...

where he oversaw some 35 films, working with multiple co-producers around the world. His projects include the Emmy Award and BAFTA-winning series '' Blue Planet II'', the Emmy Award-nominated series ''Wild New Zealand'' with

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, and the BAFTA-winning BBC1 series ''Big Blue Live'' with

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. Honeyborne conceived '' Blue Planet II'' in 2013. It was first broadcast on BBC1 in October 2017. He spent five years on attachment to John Downer Productions, co-directing the series '' Supernatural'' and '' Weird Nature'', before returning to the BBC to make '' Wildlife on One'' documentaries with David Attenborough and to work on the strand ''

Natural World ''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 televis ...

'' (co-produced by

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and National Geographic Channel). A keen scuba diver and photographer, he has also made a series of documentaries with world champion freediver, Tanya Streeter. From 2009 to 2013, he was series producer for ''

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Early life

Ampleforth College Ampleforth College is a co-educational independent day and boarding school in the English public school tradition located in the village of Ampleforth, North Yorkshire, England. It opened in 1802 as a boys' school, it is situated in the groun ...

University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Newcastle University (legally the University of Newcastle upon Tyne) is a UK public research university based in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England. It has overseas campuses in Singapore and Malaysia. The university is a red brick univer ...

Executive producer

Blue Planet II

Patagonia: Earth's Secret Paradise

Japan: Earth's Enchanted Islands

Wonders of the Monsoon ''Wonders of the Monsoon'' (also known as ''Lands of the Monsoon'') is a BBC documentary series which ran for five episodes between 5 October 2014 and 2 November 2014, and aired on BBC Two. The series focus for a variety of locations around the ...

Autumnwatch

Early life

Filmography

Executive producer

Series producer

Feature Director

TV producer

John Downer Productions

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