About

NHNZ WORLDWIDE is a specialist factual production company focused on turning the best story ideas into great television.


We are literally wild about storytelling. We make ambitious global content that excites audiences across the world. After such successes as the blue chip DYNAMIC PLANET for PBS/Arte, 111 episodes of human triumph in I SURVIVED for A&E, and the cinematic wonder of MYSTERIOUS PLANET for Discovery+, we have expanded into entertainment, formats, sports, adventure and lifestyle programming.

NHNZ Worldwide has production and development staff based in Los Angeles and New Zealand, along with a global network of production partners.  The company has most recently completed projects for Discovery UK, NatGeo Wild, PBS, Love Nature, Arté, TVNZ, Sky Originals and National Geographic.​

NHNZ was founded 46 years ago as the Natural History Unit of Television New Zealand but spent most of its life owned by Fox Studios.  Three years ago, the company was bought by Dame Julie Christie who was the founder of international entertainment format producer Touchdown Productions. Julie was made a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2017 for Services to Governance and Television.