Mark is a multiple BAFTA/EMMY award-winning executive producer with over twenty-five years of programming experience across a broad range of wildlife TV documentaries. With a passion for the oceans, as series producer of ‘Blue Planet II’ Mark employed ground-breaking technology and environmental storytelling to give an entirely new understanding of life beneath the waves. BP2 went on to become the most watched wildlife TV programme of all time and was credited with galvanising action around ocean plastics. As Executive Producer of ‘Frozen Planet II’, Mark continued his commitment to making entertaining, impactful high end blue chip and ventured to Antarctica to direct its seminal ‘wave-washing’ killer whale sequences.
Other BBC credits include Executive Producer of ‘Eden: Untamed Planet’, ‘Earth’s Tropical Islands’ and Series Producer of ‘Hidden Kingdoms’. He has also directed three award winning giant screen films- Tiny Giants (originated in 3D), ‘Oceans: Our Blue Planet’ and most recently ‘Arctic; Our Frozen Planet’.
Since joining Plimsoll in March ’23, Mark has overseen the post production of their major upcoming six part wildlife series for National Geographic/Disney+, due for TX Jan ’24.