Production CompanyTelevisionDocumentary

Oxford Scientific Films

London, United Kingdom(approximate location)

Oxford Scientific Films is a small company with a BIG reputation. Owned by ITV Studios and run by an award-winning all-female executive team produces blue-chip landmark natural history documentaries for broadcasters all around the world.

From their site

Images from Oxford Scientific Films’s own website.

Who works there

  • Helen ConlanExecutive Producer When
  • Caroline HawkinsMarcus Bayley Head of Finance Marcus joined
  • Marcus BayleyHead of Finance
  • Finance Marcusjoined the management team at OSF in 2025 br
  • Anna Brett

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

Contact & details

TypeProduction Company · Television · Documentary
Founded1968Wikidata
LocationLondon, United Kingdom
Websiteoxfordscientificfilms.tv
Emailcbirks@oxfordscientificfilms.tv
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Statusactive2025 credit i
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How their work is rated

Average rating
7.9IMDb
4.0directory 6.28.0

9 rated titles, weighted by votes

Awards
Emmys0of5nominations0%
BAFTAs0of2nominations0%

2 wins from 18 nominations across all awards

Meerkat Manor poster
Highest rated
Meerkat Manor
2005
8.31,322 votes
Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins poster
Lowest rated
Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins
2008
6.9323 votes
Mostly
documentary, adventure, reality-tv
Active
1976–2025
Best known for
Meerkat Manor

Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 24 of 29 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
1313 seasons

2005–2023

Television rating
8.2IMDb

Their films average 7.5, so the television rates 0.8 higher.

Networks
  • BBC One2
  • Animal Planet2
  • National Geographic1
  • BBC America1
  • Smithsonian Channel1
  • ABC TV1

Across 10 series matched to TMDB, 91 episodes. 3 still returning or in production.

Longest runningMeerkat Manor · 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.

Credits24 of 34

17 films · 13 TV titles

Titles per year31 titles · busiest 2014 with 7

31 titles across 29 years, averaging 1.1 a year. The last five years hold at 0.6 a year. 11 of those 29 years carry no credit on file.

Quality over time12 rated titles · bigger dots carry more votes
6789their average 7.9200020102020

Their 2010s work is their strongest, averaging 7.9 across 5 titles. The 6 titles since 2014 average 7.8, 0.3 above their 7.5 overall. 7 of 12 rated titles sit above their 7.5 average.

Who they work with

Notable cast
  • Flower the Meerkat2
Genres
  • Documentary22 of 24
  • Adventure2 of 24

Names appearing on two or more of Oxford Scientific Films’s produced titles, across the 24 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 with11 companies

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

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