Pioneer Productions
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Television Production | |
| Industry | Television |
|---|---|
| Genre | Entertainment, Science, History, Drama |
| Founded | 1988 |
| Founders | Nigel Henbest Heather Couper |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Stuart Carter, Jeremy Dear, Kirstie McLure, |
| Website | Official website |
Pioneer Productions is a British
documentary
productions.
History
Founded in 1988, by Nigel Henbest, Heather Couper and Stuart Carter, Pioneer targeted science broadcasting in a period of global tele-media expansion, and sought relationships with US factual television broadcasters. In the 1990s it produced series entitled Raging Planet,[1] and Extreme Machines. Later CGI films included Journey to the Edge of the Universe, The Unsinkable Titanic, Hindenburg: The Last Flight, Extraordinary Animals, In the Womb, and Catastrophe. In 2009 it helped produce the six-part series Christianity: A History for Channel 4.
Awards
Pioneer has won the "Best Science Film" award twice at the
Emmy Award and awards at the Royal Television Society.[citation needed
]
References
- ^ What We Do on Pioneer Productions official website. Accessed 17 April 2013
External links
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