James Honeyborne

James Honeyborne is the creative director of Freeborne Media, he previously worked as an executive producer at the BBC Natural History Unit 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 National Geographic (U.S. TV channel), and the BAFTA-winning BBC1 series Big Blue Live with PBS.

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 (co-produced by Animal Planet 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 Africa the BBC TV series which aired in 2013. In 2019, he signed an overall deal with Netflix.

Honeyborne attended Ampleforth College and studied biology at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He graduated in 1992 and joined the BBC Natural History Unit in the same year.

Blue Planet II (BBC1 2017)

Mountain: Life at the Extreme (BBC2 2017) – delivered

Wild Alaska Live (BBC1 2017) – Development Exec / Business Winning Exec

New Zealand: Earth's Mythical Islands (BBC2 2016)

Patagonia: Earth's Secret Paradise (BBC2 2015)

Big Blue Live (BBC1 2015):

Japan: Earth's Enchanted Islands (BBC2 2015):

Alaska: Earth's Frozen Kingdom (BBC2 2015):

Wonders of the Monsoon (BBC2 2014):

Autumnwatch (BBC2 2014):

24 Hours on Earth (BBC1 2014):

Africa (BBC1 2013):

Meerkats the Movie (2007)

Natural World (BBC2 2006) - Buddha, Bees and the Giant Hornet Queen

Dive Galapagos (BBC2 2005)

Dragonfly (BBC1 2004)

Peregrine (BBC1 2004)

Pelican (BBC1 2001)

Weird Nature (BBC1 2002)

Supernatural (BBC1 1999)