Icon Films
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Icon Films is an award winning British independent television production company that produces factual programmes for broadcast by networks both in the UK and US. The company was founded in 1990 by Harry Marshall and Laura Marshall, and is based in Bristol
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Bristol
Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007...
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Past productions
| Programme | Channel | Year of Production | Notes | |
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| River Monsters Series 2 | Animal Planet US, ITV1, ITV4, ITV Global Entertainment, Discovery UK | 2010 | Presented by Jeremy Wade Jeremy Wade Jeremy John Wade is a British biologist, television presenter, extreme angler and writer specializing in travel and natural history. He is best known for his television series River Monsters, produced by Icon Films... |
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| The Born Free Legacy | BBC4 | 2010 | ||
| Weird Creatures with Nick Baker Series 3 | Animal Planet UK, Science Channel, ITV Gobal International | 2009 | Presented by Nick Baker Nick Baker Nicholas Rowan Baker is an English naturalist and television presenter, notably on Children's BBC's The Really Wild Show. He has recently finished filming Nick Baker's Weird Creatures.-Early life:... |
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| Airmen and the Headhunters | National Gographic Channels International, THIRTEEN and Channel 4 | 2009 | ||
| The One Show The One Show The One Show is a topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One and BBC One HD, hosted by Alex Jones and Matt Baker. Chris Evans joins Jones to present the programme on Friday... |
BBC One BBC One BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution... |
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| River Monsters Series 1 | Animal Planet US, ITV1, ITV4, ITV Global Entertainment, Discovery UK | 2009 | Presented by Jeremy Wade Jeremy Wade Jeremy John Wade is a British biologist, television presenter, extreme angler and writer specializing in travel and natural history. He is best known for his television series River Monsters, produced by Icon Films... |
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| Flesh Eating River Monster | Five | 2008 | Presented by Jeremy Wade Jeremy Wade Jeremy John Wade is a British biologist, television presenter, extreme angler and writer specializing in travel and natural history. He is best known for his television series River Monsters, produced by Icon Films... |
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| Crocodile Blues | BBC, Animal Planet, ITV Global Entertainment | 2008 | Presented by Romulus Whitaker Romulus Whitaker Romulus Earl Whitaker is a herpetologist, wildlife conservationist and founder of the Madras Snake Park, The Andaman and Nicobar Environment Trust , and the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust.... |
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| Romulus Whitaker and the Dragon Chronicles | NGCI, WNET, ITV Global Entertainment | 2008 | Presented by Romulus Whitaker | |
| All About Dung | History Channel US | 2008 | Presented by Monty Halls | |
| The Mountains of the Monsoon | BBC, Animal Planet | 2007–2008 | Presented by Sandesh Kadur | |
| Nick Baker's Weird Creatures Series 2 | Five, Animal Planet, ITV Global Entertainment | 2007 | Presented by Nick Baker Nick Baker Nicholas Rowan Baker is an English naturalist and television presenter, notably on Children's BBC's The Really Wild Show. He has recently finished filming Nick Baker's Weird Creatures.-Early life:... |
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| Travellers' Century | BBC Four BBC Four BBC Four is a British television network operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation and available to digital television viewers on Freeview, IPTV, satellite and cable.... |
2007 | Presented by Benedict Allen Benedict Allen Benedict Colin Allen is a British traveller. He is best known for his survival modus operandi: tapping into local, indigenous knowledge above reliance on modern inventions. His approach is to present himself as ready to learn, like an infant; the communities that he visits take him under their... |
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| Street Monkeys | NGCI, Granada International | 2007 | ||
| Saving Planet Earth - Tigers | BBC | 2006 | Presented by Fiona Bruce Fiona Bruce Fiona Elizabeth Bruce is a British journalist, newsreader and television presenter. Since joining the BBC in 1989, she has gone on to present many flagship programmes for the corporation including the BBC News at Six, BBC News at Ten, Crimewatch, Call My Bluff and, most recently, Antiques Roadshow... |
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| Nick Baker's Weird Creatures Series 1 | Five, Animal Planet | 2006 | Presented by Nick Baker Nick Baker Nicholas Rowan Baker is an English naturalist and television presenter, notably on Children's BBC's The Really Wild Show. He has recently finished filming Nick Baker's Weird Creatures.-Early life:... |
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| Supersize Crocs | WNET, Five, Granada International, NGCI | 2006 | Presented by Romulus Whitaker Romulus Whitaker Romulus Earl Whitaker is a herpetologist, wildlife conservationist and founder of the Madras Snake Park, The Andaman and Nicobar Environment Trust , and the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust.... |
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| Tiger Kill | BBC | 2006 | With Simon King and Alphonse Roy | |
| Tom Harrisson - the Barefoot Anthropologist | BBC Four | 2006 | Presented by Sir David Attenborough | |
| Paranormal Pigeons | Five, Animal Planet | 2005 | With Rupert Sheldrake Rupert Sheldrake Rupert Sheldrake is an English scientist. He is known for having proposed an unorthodox account of morphogenesis and for his research into parapsychology. His books and papers stem from his theory of morphic resonance, and cover topics such as animal and plant development and behaviour, memory,... and Tim Guildford |
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| Last Lions of India | BBC | 2005 | ||
| Gangsters' Wives | Five | 2005 | Presented by Kate Kray | |
| Einstein's Brain | National Geographic Channels International, Channel 4 | 2004 | ||
| The King Cobra and I | BBC | 2004 | Presented by Romulus Whitaker Romulus Whitaker Romulus Earl Whitaker is a herpetologist, wildlife conservationist and founder of the Madras Snake Park, The Andaman and Nicobar Environment Trust , and the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust.... |
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| Holy Cow! | DDE / PBS | 2003 |
Awards
- 2001 Grierson AwardGrierson AwardsThe Grierson Awards celebrate innovative and exciting new documentary films. The awards have been set up by The Grierson Trust to commemorate the life and work of world renowned Documentary Filmmaker John Grierson. The awards were first set-up in 1972 and have run annually...
for Best Documentary Series: Indian Journeys made by Icon Films for the BBC.
Key people
- Harry Marshall - Creative Director
- Laura Marshall - Managing Director
- Andie Clare - Director of Production
- Lucy Middelboe - Commercial Director
- Steve Ashworth - Head of Finance
- Owen Gay - Head of Popular Factual