John Downer Productions

John Downer Productions Award-winning company that makes innovative, emotional and immersive wildlife TV.

John Downer Productions pioneered many of the spectacular techniques now commonplace in wildlife filmmaking. If you see an eyeball to wingtip shot of a flying bird, a shot from a camera on an animal’s back, a simulated animal viewpoint or a moving track around an animal frozen in time, you can be sure JDP created it first. Producer/director John Downer started his professional life with the world-

renowned BBC Natural History Unit. Here he created many groundbreaking and award-winning programmes such as ‘In-flight Movie’, which for the first time flew cameras alongside birds on the wing and the acclaimed series ‘Supersense’ and ‘Lifesense’ which explored animal perception from the animal’s point of view. As an independent producer, John Downer pushed back the boundaries of filmmaking again to create the series ‘Supernatural’ and the wildlife special ‘Eagle’ which featured in-flight shots from a camera-carrying golden eagle, another first. He also created Lion – Spy in the Den, which introduced the now famous ‘Bouldercam’, a mobile rock containing a camera. As a director John Downer won a ‘Grammy’ for the innovative time-layering techniques in the Peter Gabriel video ‘Digging in the Dirt’. He also made many groundbreaking commercials including those for British Gas, Peugeot and BMW.

11/07/2025

Spy Chameleon Sunbathes Among Ring-tailed Lemurs in Berenty, Madagascar.

29/05/2025

***We're proud to announce our brand new YouTube Memberships!***

https://www.youtube.com/

Here you will get a chance to delve deeper into how we make our Spy Creatures & programmes with exclusive loyalty badges, emojis, early access to our video uploads, members-only Q&A's where you will get to ask the producers of the series questions about the Spy Creatures and the animals they film.

Then for our higher tier you will get all this plus an extra behind the scenes video each month that is not on our public YouTube Channel, where we go under the skin of the animatronic Spy Creatures to see how they were made and how we filmed many of the videos you see on our channel!

So sit back, relax and enjoy our new exclusive YouTube Members Channel! Join now:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDRZWhedLhwllnac-RBxvyw/join

13/05/2025

The terrifying beauty of nature!

12/05/2025

Monday Morning Hitting You Like...

10/03/2025

24/09/2024

Celebrate 24th September 2024!

MERRY CHRISTMAS! 🎄🎅 Don't miss 'Spy in the Snow' ❄️ TONIGHT BBC Two 4:40pm
24/12/2023

MERRY CHRISTMAS! 🎄🎅

Don't miss 'Spy in the Snow' ❄️ TONIGHT BBC Two 4:40pm

16/11/2023

Game recognise Game

All episodes of Spy in the Ocean are now available to watch on demand on and

15/11/2023

Tag Bae

Spy in the Ocean Finale tonight 8/7c on 🐋 🦀 🌊

14/11/2023

The Spy in the Ocean season finale ends in 'Deep Trouble'

Wednesday 15th Nov 8/7c on

12/11/2023

it's date night!

Marine iguanas are the only lizards on Earth that spends time in the ocean. They live only on the Galapagos Islands, and like many Galapagos species, they have adapted to an island lifestyle.

Don't forget, the conclusion to Spy in the Ocean next Wednesday at 8/7c on PBS

10/11/2023

When the weekend sneaks up on you...

Here we have a Tuna Crab and as it turns out...it is not a Crab at all.... As a matter of fact, this red pelagic crab is actually a type of squat lobster.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Don't forget, the conclusion to Spy in the Ocean next Wednesday at 8/7c on PBS

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