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Barbara Pyle
Executive Producer, People Count
Co-creator & Producer of Captain
Planet and the Planeteers
Founder, Captain Planet Foundation
Barbara Pyle is an award-winning executive producer and leading
industry expert on the use of media and worldwide communications
for television programming on critical global issues.
Barbara has produced and directed over 50 films, winning over 100 industry awards and
eight Emmy nominations. Her films on sustainable development issues including the
environment, climate change, empowerment of women, poverty eradication, and population
stabilization have been the centerpieces of media campaigns that she produced for the
corresponding United Nations Summits.
Hired by Ted Turner in 1980 to create the Turner Environment Division, Barbara served for
20 years as Corporate Vice President of Environmental Policy at the Turner Broadcasting
System (TBS). While there, she set the company’s environmental broadcast agenda and
branded TBS as the environmental network. As Cable News Network’s (CNN) Environment
Editor, Barbara introduced and oversaw environmental coverage, including the original Earth
Matters, which premiered on CNN in 1981.
She also created the animated action adventure series Captain Planet and the Planeteers, a
groundbreaking environmental series which quickly rose to number one in Nielsen ratings.
Finally, she also created and served as executive producer for People Count, an awardwinning
television series which focused on remarkable individuals leading the way to create
a better future in their communities.
For her body of work and humanitarian efforts, Barbara has received dozens of personal
commendations including the world’s most prestigious environmental honor for lifetime
achievement - the United Nations Environment Programme Sasakawa Prize.
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