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toby beach

The Company is led by American producer Toby Beach, who has more than 25 years of experience as a non-fiction Producer, Director and Executive Producer. He has produced and directed more than 100 hours of factual television across much of the globe and is recognized for delivering intelligent high-quality international programming, on time & on budget.

Producing credits include

  • Multiple seasons of the National Geographic series Taboo

  • The CBS Primetime magazine Coast to Coast

  • NBC News Primetime series In Profile (including an in-depth hour on Edward Bernays, the father of Spin)

  • Multiple episodes of Trauma: Life and Death in the ER and Paramedics: On the Street for TLC

  • The two-hour TLC/Discovery special Breaking News, which inserted camera teams at Miami's NBC 6 to capture what it takes to deliver breaking news

Beach has produced three films on big cats, in Africa, India and Thailand: Explorer: Killer Cats and Explorer: Ultimate Cat for National Geographic Television, and Ghost Cat: Saving the Clouded Leopard for The Smithsonian Channel (winner of a Cine Golden Eagle Award).

As Executive Producer, he was nominated for a National News and Documentary Emmy as Executive Producer of The Color of Oil for the Discovery Times Channel and he served as Executive Producer on multiple episodes of Bravo Channel's Bravo Profiles, about leading actors and artists, including Robert Redford, Marlon Brando and Gerard Depardieu.  He has also served as Executive Producer and Writer on National Geographic programs commissioned to first-time filmmakers in Singapore and Malaysia.

His independent documentary No Name Game Farm, about the gritty world of cockfighting in Louisiana, screened at Full Frame Film Festival in 2003 and aired on PBS' Southern Lens series. His very first film, Seeds of Tibet, garnered the 1997 Earthwatch Film Award and was distributed to PBS stations by WGBH Boston.

Since 2010 Beach has served as the show runner and director of 80 hours of aerial programming for Smithsonian Channel / Paramount +, including the recent four-hour series Aerial Italy.

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