Dan is an 8-times Emmy nominated showrunner who specialises in factual TV for the US and UK markets.  He started out at the BBC Natural History Unit in the 1990s where he worked on series including Sir David Attenborough’s Life of Mammals, Planet Earth and British Isles: A Natural History with Alan Titchmarsh. But in 2004,  not long after he was kidnapped by Quichua Indians in Ecuador, Dan headed to Sydney (and then LA) to become the showrunner of the phenomenon that is MythBusters. During his 10 years at the helm, the show received 7 Emmy nominations, 2 invitations to The White House, 12 series renewals, and over 10 billion views (sounds wrong, but isn’t). It was also under his leadership that the MythBusters accidentally fired a cannonball through someone’s house, but that’s another story. Alongside MythBusters, Dan’s other pop science credits include White Rabbit Project (Netflix), The Search (Discovery), Supercar MegaBuild (National Geographic), Twinstitute (BBC), Prototype This (Discovery) and Deadly Dinosaurs (BBC).

In 2018, and now back in the UK, Dan joined Silverback Films to run the biggest project in the company’s history: Life on Our Planet. Executive produced by Steven Spielberg, the groundbreaking series set out to tell the entire story of life on Earth – bringing the creatures and lost worlds of the past back to life on a scale never attempted before. “LOOP” became a global hit, going on to become Netflix’s most-watched natural history show – a record only surpassed by Dan’s next series, The Dinosaurs. Combining cutting-edge science, ambitious location filming and world-class visual effects, The Dinosaurs became an even bigger international success, reaching number one in 89 countries and an audience of more than 100 million family viewers.

When Dan’s thinking about how to combine visual effects and story, he lives in Cheshire with his wife Jess, his two nearly grown-up boys and an eclectic menagerie of animals. He’s also not embarrassed to admit that he’s a total cricket badger.