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BBC’s NHU head to stand down Julian Hector, head of BBC Studio’s renowned Natural History Unit, is to stand down and hand over the reins of the prodco in 2022. Julian Hector Hector will leave at the end of 2021 after five years leading the NHU, and almost three decades with the UK pubcaster overall. Since taking over from Wendy Darke in 2016, Hector has presided over the most successful period in the Bristol-based production house’s 64-year history, with landmark blockbusters Planet Earth II, Blue Planet II, Dynasties and Seven Worlds, One Planet. The NHU, under Hector’s stewardship, has also won a raft of new commissions with the BBC – including The Green Planet and Frozen Planet II – and with new buyers including Apple’s forthcoming The Year the Earth Changed, National Geographic’s Ocean Xplorers, Endangered for Discovery, and The Americas for NBCU.

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