James Younger – Executive Producer

In 2006 James joined The Incubator, where he has overseen production on Through the Wormhole, Popular Science, Strange Rituals, Idiot Hall of Fame and Surgery Saved My Life.

James switched from his first career in science, after getting a PhD from UC Berkeley, when he was hired to write for The Economist in London. He moved to documentary filmmaking at BBC Television in 1994. Since then he has written, directed and executive produced nearly a hundred documentaries. At the BBC he directed three films in the award-winning series The Planets, which charted mankind’s exploration of the Solar System through the lives, dreams and memories of leading space researchers. He also wrote the companion book to the series (with David McNab), which became a Sunday Times number one bestseller in the UK, sold over 30,000 copies in the US, and was translated into seven languages.

After moving to Los Angeles, he supervised and directed Unsolved History, a Discovery Channel series that used the latest forensic techniques to reopen historical mysteries. Highlights were films on the death of the Red Baron and the assassination of JFK. Other projects have included Anatomy of a Shark Bite: the highest-rated Discovery SHARK WEEK premier in a decade, and Science of the Bible, ten films for National Geographic on the real life of Jesus, filmed in a reconstructed first-century Galilean village. James is married to Kay, and has two sons, Jake, and Luke. His latest passion outside filmmaking is learning to play classical guitar.