Doug Hope
BBC
Head of Development, Producer Director
Doug is currently the Head of Development for the greatest natural history department in the world, BBC Studios' Natural History Unit. He has previously worked for, not just the BBC, but lots of the independent companies in Bristol including Icon Films, Tigress, World Television and Partridge Films. Doug has accrued more than 100 television credits from researcher to executive producer including having created Deadly 60 (the most successful children's series of all time) as well as directed and produced the first River Monsters (Animal Planet's most successful series). Doug also created and developed the BAFTA award-winning Big Blue Live, Attenborough & the Giant Dinosaur and he is the executive producer on The Red List - a special for Discovery Networks. Doug's last project in the field was producing and directing My Congo with Vianet Djenguet.