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Tusker Television
Tusker Television is a full-service producer of long-form factual programming for television broadcast and online streaming. We create visually powerful story-driven films and series and are proud to work with some of the best factual broadcasters in the world.
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new show
Aerial America: Yellowstone
This new one-hour special
for the Smithsonian Channel’s Aerial America series takes television viewers on a once-in-a-lifetime 4K journey across one of the most breathtaking and dynamic ecosystems in the world.
Shot over multiple seasons, Aerial America: Yellowstone captures the remarkable history, landscape and creatures of America’s first National Park, entirely from the air, like never before.
Aerial Cities: Las Vegas 24
new series
AERIAL CITIES
10 episodes. one hour each.
A new ultra-HD aerial series that explores a day in the life of America's largest cities from the air.
Filmed entirely in 4K, 6K and 8K.
Discover the amazing people, work and infrastructure that keep Miami, Las Vegas, Seattle, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles running 24/7.
New episodes currently in production.
AERIAL AMERICA: UTAH
recent work
AERIAL AMERICA
60+ hour series
"One of the most visually adventurous shows on television"
- The New York Times
This award-winning non-fiction series, commissioned by Smithsonian Channel, took 7 years, 3500 helicopter hours and more than 170,000 nautical miles of flight to film.
Aerial America is also broadcast on France 5, Germany's Phoenix / ZDF and Smithsonian Channel worldwide.
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previous work
AERIAL AMERICA: ALASKA
(EPISODE 1: FIRE AND ICE)
PREVIOUS WORK
Ghost Cat: Saving the Clouded Leopard
SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL
Winner: CINE Golden Eagle
Producer: Toby Beach
Cinematographer: Brad Dillon
In the jungles of Thailand, a leading scientist from the Smithsonian's National Zoo is racing against time to save one of the world's rarest and most endangered big cats. Nearby, armed poachers comb a National Park searching for clouded leopard tracks, while an undercover investigation by the filmmakers tracks how easy it is for smugglers to move the bones and pelts of these rare and beautiful creatures across Thailand's border with Myanmar.
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we are driven by compelling stories, characters and visuals
previous work
National Geographic Explorer: Ultimate Cat
National Geographic Channel/Nat Geo Wild
Producer/Writer: Toby Beach
Associate Producer: Kate Sweeney
Cinematographer: Rob Lyall
Natural history program shot in Tanzania that follows predator capture specialist Dairen Simpson and uses cutting edge CGI to explore how the world’s largest cats (lions, tigers and leopards) are bio-engineering marvels.
company founder
toby beach
The Company is led by American producer Toby Beach, who has more than 20 years of experience as a non-fiction Producer, Director and Executive Producer. He has personally produced and directed more than 100 hours of television across much of the globe and is recognized for delivering intelligent high-quality international programming, on time & 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.
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our namesake
photo courtesy of Make it Kenya Photo / Stuart Price
