Juliet Blake
Executive Producer
Juliet Blake currently produces television programs for TED Talks and is TED’s Curator of Special Projects. She produced TED’s first TV special, TED Talks Education for PBS, hosted by John Legend.
Blake recently jumped into the world of feature film with The Hundred-Foot Journey starring Helen Mirren and directed by Lasse Hallström, with Blake serving as producer alongside Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey. Shot on location in France and India, The Hundred-Foot Journey was released in theaters by DreamWorks in August 2014 and was an unexpected success, grossing over $88 million at the box office. Blake started working on the project in early 2009, after optioning the book before it was published.
As a senior executive at the National Geographic Channel in Washington DC, Blake oversaw all the development and production of NGT — National Geographic's in-house production company — where she was responsible for the production of 125 hours of content each year, including the channel’s multi-Emmy Award-winning program Explorer. Blake also supervised the development and production of the critically acclaimed hit Border Wars.
Previously, she was President of Jim Henson Television where she was responsible for all prime time and children's television, including global oversight of the Muppet franchise. She developed and produced the Muppets' first TV movie: It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas for NBC, and executive produced the final 33 episodes of acclaimed award-winning SyFy Channel series Farscape. Blake has also developed feature films for Sean Connery and Mike Medavoy's Phoenix Pictures.
She got her start in entertainment with BBC Radio when she was 20. With the success of her two-part radio documentary on Jewish humor she was able to land her first job in TV on the BBC series The Golden Land.