{"id":18840,"date":"2022-10-10T08:57:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T12:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/bbc-studios-nhu-pacts-james-reed-underdog-films\/"},"modified":"2022-10-10T08:57:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T12:57:10","slug":"bbc-studios-nhu-pacts-with-james-reed-underdog-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/bbc-studios-nhu-pacts-with-james-reed-underdog-films\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Studios NHU Pacts with James Reed, Underdog Films"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Studios Natural History Unit has entered into a one-year development pact with Underdog Films and its founder, James Reed, who directed the Academy Award-winning <em>My Octopus Teacher<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Underdog Films, which Reed leads with his creative partner,\u00a0Matt Houghton, also produced <em>Jago\u2014A Life Underwater<\/em> and <em>Chasing Ocean Giants<\/em>. It currently has a range of projects at various stages for Netflix, Channel 4, Film4, National Geographic and others.<\/p>\n<p>Jonny Keeling, the head of BBC Studios Natural History Unit, noted, \u201cCharacter and emotional storytelling are at the heart of filmmaking both at the NHU and Underdog Films, so we look forward to developing a number of original, ambitious and compelling natural history features for audiences across the globe. I\u2019m hugely excited to welcome James and Matt\u2019s input and perspectives to the NHU\u2019s creative development process and can\u2019t wait to start working with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reed, managing director of Underdog Films, added, \u201cWe are very excited to get into this with the NHU. They\u2019ve been at the forefront of natural history filmmaking for decades and their further growth in the feature doc market will be a fantastic development for the industry as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Houghton noted, \u201cCollaboration and successful partnerships are a key part of Underdog Films\u2019 approach to filmmaking and we\u2019re delighted to be working with the talented storytellers of the NHU. The team has exciting, ambitious plans and we\u2019re looking forward to contributing to stories that will be entertaining, enlightening and thought-provoking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Studios Natural History Unit has entered into a one-year development pact with Underdog Films and its founder, James Reed, who directed the Academy Award-winning My Octopus Teacher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":290,"featured_media":18841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[3900,6429,6430,6431],"class_list":["post-18840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-bbc-studios-natural-history-unit","tag-james-reed","tag-my-octopus-teacher","tag-underdog-films","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BBC Studios NHU Pacts with James Reed, Underdog Films - TVREAL<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/bbc-studios-nhu-pacts-with-james-reed-underdog-films\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BBC Studios NHU Pacts with James Reed, Underdog Films - TVREAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"BBC Studios Natural History Unit has entered into a one-year development pact with Underdog Films and its founder, James Reed, who directed the Academy Award-winning My Octopus Teacher.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/bbc-studios-nhu-pacts-with-james-reed-underdog-films\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVREAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-10-10T12:57:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/07\/James-Reed-1022.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"319\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mansha Daswani\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mansha Daswani\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/bbc-studios-nhu-pacts-with-james-reed-underdog-films\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/bbc-studios-nhu-pacts-with-james-reed-underdog-films\/\",\"name\":\"BBC Studios NHU Pacts with James Reed, Underdog Films - TVREAL\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2022-10-10T12:57:10+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-10-10T12:57:10+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#\/schema\/person\/83da304c8bad8bfdb3edd7eb47cfe5ad\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/bbc-studios-nhu-pacts-with-james-reed-underdog-films\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/bbc-studios-nhu-pacts-with-james-reed-underdog-films\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/bbc-studios-nhu-pacts-with-james-reed-underdog-films\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"BBC Studios NHU Pacts with James Reed, Underdog Films\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/\",\"name\":\"TVREAL\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#\/schema\/person\/83da304c8bad8bfdb3edd7eb47cfe5ad\",\"name\":\"Mansha Daswani\",\"description\":\"Mansha Daswani is the editor-in-chief and associate publisher of World Screen. 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