The BGTW’s Simon Parker won a prestigious Travel Media Award on Monday night, for his first TV series, Earth Cycle. He and 1080 Media scooped the Broadcast Programme of the Year award, beating off entries from the BBC and The Telegraph. You can view the series trailer.
The first (5 X 30 minute) series of Earth Cycle was shot on a 3,200km cycle ride the length of the Scandinavian Peninsula, all the way from the North Cape in Arctic Norway, to the southernmost point of Sweden. It’s currently being broadcast on 20+ channels globally and on Amazon Prime Video.
Earth Cycle is all about charting the seasonal cycles of planet earth, while travelling vast distances by bike. In the series, Simon catches invasive king crabs in the Arctic Ocean, tracks endangered moose and beavers, forages for seasonal berries and discovers the Northern Lights with the Sami – among many other stories and lots of wild camping.
You can find out more about the series here, and clips can be made available on request.
Simon is currently looking to network with new people in the television industry, to get series two and three of Earth Cycle ready for later in the year when borders open.
Beyond Earth Cycle, he is also writing his first book about cycling 5,000km around Britain during the pandemic and is on the hunt for an agent and/or publisher. He’s also trying to kick off a new and ambitious TV project and looking for collaborators.
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