Mike Gunton is a British television producer and a senior executive at the BBC Natural History Unit, the world's largest production unit dedicated to wildlife film-making. In November 2009 he became the Unit's first Creative Director.
He is best known as the executive producer of Life, a nature documentary series which revealed the adaptive survival strategies of animals around the world, and as the co-author (with Martha Holmes) of the accompanying book. He is currently co-directing (with Holmes) a feature film version of Life, and is the executive producer of a major new BBC One series on African wildlife, due for broadcast in 2013.