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Humble Bee Films

Bristol, United Kingdom

Humble Bee Films is a multi-award-winning production company specialising in premium factual and natural history content for the global market.

From their site

Images from Humble Bee Films’s own website.

Who works there

  • Stephen DunleavyFounder & CEO Jayne Edwards Head of Developm
  • Business AffairsEloisa Noble Producer / Director Rob Wilcox
  • Eloisa NobleProducer / Director Rob Wilcox Producer / Di
  • Tasha HowardAssistant Producer Rose Tarplee Production C
  • Rose TarpleeProduction Coordinator Helen Drew Junior Pro

Listed on the company’s own site. People move on; this is not a current roster.

Contact & details

TypeProduction Company · Television
Founded2010company website
Statusactive2024 credit i

How their work is rated

Average rating
8.1IMDb
4.0directory 6.28.0

6 rated titles, weighted by votes

Awards
BAFTAs1of1nominations100%

6 wins from 24 nominations across all awards

Mostly
documentary, history
Active
2013–2024
Best known for
Life in Colour

Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 7 of 9 titles. Unmatched titles are left out rather than guessed. Oscars, Emmys and BAFTAs are itemised; other awards sit in the totals. IMDb counts wins separately from losing nominations, so nominations here is wins plus losses.

Their television work

Series
78 seasons

2013–2024

Television rating
8.2IMDb

Across 4 rated series, weighted by votes

Networks
  • Netflix1
  • CBC Television1
  • BBC One1
  • U&Eden1
  • U&W1

Across 5 series matched to TMDB, 44 episodes. 2 still returning or in production.

Longest runningNatural Curiosities · 4 seasons

Series identified from OMDb, falling back to the credit type where OMDb had no match. Season counts are each show’s full run, not only the seasons this company was credited on.

Credits9

2 films · 4 TV titles

Titles per year9 titles · busiest 2024 with 3

9 titles across 12 years, averaging 0.8 a year. The last five years hold at 0.8 a year. 6 of those 12 years carry no credit on file.

Quality over time6 rated titles · bigger dots carry more votes
78910their average 8.1200020102020

Their 2010s work is their strongest, averaging 8.2 across 3 titles. 2 of 6 rated titles sit above their 8.1 average, which is weighted by votes: the most seen titles pull it up.

Who they work with

Notable cast
  • David Attenborough5
Genres
  • Documentary7 of 7

Names appearing on two or more of Humble Bee Films’s produced titles, across the 7 matched to OMDb. Cast is the top-billed few OMDb lists per title, so it is notable cast rather than a full cast list. A title can carry more than one genre, so the genre counts overlap.

Works with2 companies

Companies that appear alongside Humble Bee Films on the same productions. The number is how many titles they share.

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