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Pioneer Productions

London, United Kingdom(approximate location)

Pioneer Productions is a film & media company based in Crystal Springs, Mississippi, and owned by RD & Ashley Chisholm who specialize in story-driven videography services.

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Who works there

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Contact & details

TypeDistributor · Film · Commercials · Documentary
Founded1988Wikidata
LocationLondon, United Kingdom
Websitepioneertv.com
Emailsofia.brandt@pioneertv.com
Phone+44 (0)20 8748 0888
Statusactive2025 credit i
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How their work is rated

Average rating
8.6IMDb
4.0directory 6.28.0

10 rated titles, weighted by votes

Awards
Emmys1of1nominations100%

27 wins from 99 nominations across all awards

How the Universe Works poster
Highest rated
How the Universe Works
2010
8.97,667 votes
Louvre Heist: Minute by Minute poster
Lowest rated
Louvre Heist: Minute by Minute
2025
5.4208 votes
Mostly
documentary, drama, crime
Active
1974–2025
Best known for
How the Universe Works

Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 25 of 52 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
1871 seasons

1974–2024

Television rating
8.8IMDb

Their films average 8.2, so the television rates 0.7 higher.

Networks
  • National Geographic4
  • PBS2
  • Love Nature1
  • Sky Nature1
  • Hulu1
  • Travel Channel1

Across 10 series matched to TMDB, 1,159 episodes. 3 still returning or in production.

Longest runningNova · 53 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 52

31 films · 17 TV titles

Titles per year48 titles · busiest 2012 with 6

48 titles across 29 years, averaging 1.7 a year. The last five years hold at 1.2 a year. 6 of those 29 years carry no credit on file.

Quality over time9 rated titles · bigger dots carry more votes
46810their average 8.6200020102020

Their 2010s work is their strongest, averaging 8.8 across 5 titles. 1 of 9 rated titles sit above their 8.6 average, which is weighted by votes: the most seen titles pull it up.

Who they work with

Directors
  • Yavar Abbas2
  • Brian Leckey2
Writers
  • Billie Pink2
  • Tony Mulholland2
Notable cast
  • Sean Pertwee3
  • Mark Halliley2
  • Malcolm Tierney2
Genres
  • Documentary24 of 24

Names appearing on two or more of Pioneer Productions’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 with9 companies

Companies that appear alongside Pioneer Productions on the same productions. The number is how many titles they share.

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