{"id":8850,"date":"2016-06-23T12:16:03","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T16:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/wendy-darke-unveils-new-production-company\/"},"modified":"2016-06-23T14:26:56","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T18:26:56","slug":"wendy-darke-unveils-new-production-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/wendy-darke-unveils-new-production-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Wendy Darke Unveils New Production Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRISTOL: Wendy Darke, formerly the head of the BBC&#8217;s Natural History Unit, has founded a new Bristol-based production outfit, True to Nature.<\/p>\n<p>The new venture will specialize in the development and production of\u00a0innovative natural-history content for global broadcasters and platforms, tapping into new production techniques. Darke has spent 25 years in the sector, overseeing some 1,000 programs. True to Nature aims to tap into Darke&#8217;s experience to also expand into specialist factual, drama and entertainment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cMy passion is to use great storytelling to build life-long relationships between people and the natural world,&#8221; Darke commented. &#8220;I am also excited about opportunities to expand the portfolio to include earth sciences that relate to the natural world and also topics that capture our curiosity around human nature and relationship with our planet. Being true to nature, for me, is both being a voice for nature at the heart of everything we do and also being true to ourselves and our relationships with each other. With my team, I will continue to invest time and energy in building longstanding relationships with our commissioners and stakeholders to ensure that together we deliver outstanding content and stories with the highest factual integrity and production values.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Helena Berglund has been hired as head of production at Natural World. She previously managed the\u00a0<i>Natural World <\/i>strand for the BBC and was involved in developing CBBC\u2019s <i>Deadly <\/i>brand. Jody Bourton, whose credits include\u00a0<i>River Monsters <\/i>for Animal Planet and <i>Nature\u2019s\u00a0<\/i><i>Weirdest Events <\/i>for BBC Two, joins as development producer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRISTOL: Wendy Darke, formerly the head of the BBC&#8217;s Natural History Unit, has founded a new Bristol-based production outfit, True to Nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":290,"featured_media":8851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1207,137],"class_list":["post-8850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-true-to-nature","tag-wendy-darke","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wendy Darke Unveils New Production Company - 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\/wendy-darke-unveils-new-production-company\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wendy Darke Unveils New Production Company - TVREAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"BRISTOL: Wendy Darke, formerly the head of the BBC&#039;s Natural History Unit, has founded a new Bristol-based production outfit, True to Nature.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/wendy-darke-unveils-new-production-company\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVREAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-06-23T16:16:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-06-23T18:26:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/09\/WendyDarke-616.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1\" \/>\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\/wendy-darke-unveils-new-production-company\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/wendy-darke-unveils-new-production-company\/\",\"name\":\"Wendy Darke Unveils New Production Company - TVREAL\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2016-06-23T16:16:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-06-23T18:26:56+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#\/schema\/person\/83da304c8bad8bfdb3edd7eb47cfe5ad\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/wendy-darke-unveils-new-production-company\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/wendy-darke-unveils-new-production-company\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/wendy-darke-unveils-new-production-company\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Wendy Darke Unveils New Production Company\"}]},{\"@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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