Neil Laird is an LGBTQ+, multiple Emmy and BAFTA nominated Executive Producer who has worked extensively on both the network and production side of non-fiction TV since 1997. I’ve developed, overseen and produced over 1,000 hours of factual programs and specials in nearly every genre, with a particular passion, expertise and professional contacts in history, mystery, science and adventure.

As a showrunner/producer for several highly-respected production companies in the US and UK, I traveled to over 70 countries, with a specialty in history programming in often difficult terrains. My shows have aired on Discovery, Science Channel, Netflix, HBO Max, A&E, History, PBS, BBC, Channel 4, Animal Planet and National Geographic Channel, where I helped launch several successful series, including Brain Games and Border Wars.

Over the years, I’ve built an extensive list of contacts across the globe in both the production world and with foreign organizations, including antiquities boards in the Middle East, Asia and the Americas, I am a member of scientific institutions such as the Archeological Institute of America and the Explorers Club, and write book reviews for World History Encyclopedia.

I published my first novel Prime Time Travelers in May 2024, with the follow-up, Prime Time Pompeii, following later in the year. Both are inspired by my years in the field making antiquity TV shows.

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Judith Starkston, Author, Story-Power Episode 114 aired 11/20/24

Gobeli Tepe, Turkey

Pompeii, UNESCO World Heritage site preserved Ancient Roman City

Troy, Ancient Ruins in Turkey (2004) Achilles, Briseis, and Patroclus

Lilith: A Novel Niki Marmery

Julia Felix (Praedia luliae Felicis), Wealthy businesswoman in Pompeii

Luxor, Thebes, Diro Medina, Saqqara Egyptian cities Saqqara where King Tut’s Tomb was discovered is a UNESCO World Heritage Site

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) First Indiana Jones Movie

Star Trek, Doctor Who

The Space BetweenTime, author, Lucinda Sage-Midgorden

Barry Maughan, Author, Story-Power Episode 146, 2/11/26

The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe, Matthew Gabriele

Omm Sety (Dorothy Eady 1904 – 1981) Lived and worked in Abydos, Egypt

Ethiopia Jewish Community claimed to be the home of The Ark of the Covenant

The Odyssey, Homer

The Song of Achilles: A Novel, Madeline Miller

Circe, Madeline Miller

Peter O’Toole, British Actor played Priam in (2004) version of Troy

Disaster Movies of the 1970s, The Poseidon Adventure, Airport, Airplane (1980)

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