Pioneer Productions

Pioneer Productions
Company type	Television Production
Industry	Television
Genre	Entertainment , Science , History , Drama
Founded	1988
Founders	Nigel Henbest ; Heather Couper
Headquarters	London , United Kingdom
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Stuart Carter, Jeremy Dear, Kirstie McLure,
Website	Official website

Pioneer Productions is a British television production company based in London , United Kingdom , specialising in scientific and other documentary productions.

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Founded in 1988, by Nigel Henbest , Heather Couper and Stuart Carter, Pioneer targeted science broadcasting in a period of global tele-media expansion, and sought relationships with US factual television broadcasters. In the 1990s it produced series entitled Raging Planet , ^[1] and Extreme Machines . Later CGI films included Journey to the Edge of the Universe , The Unsinkable Titanic , Hindenburg: The Last Flight [ de ] , Extraordinary Animals , In the Womb , and Catastrophe . In 2009 it helped produce the six-part series Christianity: A History for Channel 4 .

Pioneer has won the "Best Science Film" award twice at the Banff World Media Festival , ^{[
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