5 orders extreme weather doc duo from Good TV

Elliot Reed’s indie lands double order exploring increasingly severe storms and hurricanes

Good TV is preparing a pair of documentaries for 5 exploring the impact on storms and hurricanes as the changing climate causes more extreme weather incidents.

The indie has secured access to the UK Met Office, and Good TV founder and creative director Elliot Reed noted: “Our weather is becoming more extreme and storms more intense due to climate change, yet thankfully there is an army of weather experts around the world, one step ahead, innovating up above and creating faster and more accurate ways to predict the weather.”

Alongside expert input from scientists, Good TV will employ the latest cutting-edge technology being used to monitor weather from above the clouds, Good TV has landed hour-long singles Storms From Above and Hurricanes From Above.

The former, commissioned by 5’s Dan Louw, chronicles how some scientists are trying to control the weather using cloud seeding – which has courted controversy.

Hurricanes From Above follows the daredevil scientists who fly into the eye of deadly storms to gather data. This includes last year’s Hurricane Beryl, the tropical cyclone that impacted parts of the Caribbean and intensified to a category 5 – the most destructive type of storm on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale.

Tom Peppiatt (The Restaurant Man) directs both docs.

Hurricanes From Above was commissioned by Kit Morey. Reed is executive producer on both documentaries.

Storms from Above and Hurricanes from Above will both be distributed by Silverlining Rights.