Women in journalism BBC to air major nature series written and directed by women Anne Sommerfield, a director of Animals With Cameras, says ‘we were just the best candidates’ Animals With Cameras features footage of newborn wild meerkats. Photograph: Anne Sommerfield/BBCBBC One will break new ground next week by broadcasting its first major natural history series written and directed entirely by women. On the David Attenborough-fronted Planet Earth II, more than half the production team were female; other wildlife series have had all-female producers. But it is understood that Animals With Cameras, which airs on 1 February, is the first major BBC One nature show to be entirely written and directed by women. One of the many firsts in the series, which is fronted by the cameraman Gordon Buchanan, is its footage of newborn wild meerkats.

Source: The Guardian January 25, 2018 18:00 UTC