He also co-directed African Cats, Bears, and Dolphin Reef with Alastair Fothergill for Disneynature,[1] and is also the executive producer of the series North America for the Discovery Channel.
[2] In 1983, he began working as a researcher at the BBC Natural History Unit on the David Attenborough series The Living Planet.
[4] With responsibility for Science, Arts, Business, History, Religion as well as Natural History departments, he oversaw programmes with a range from landmark programming including, Auschwitz, Planet Earth, Egypt, Supervolcano and The Power of Art to the classic long-running series of Horizon, Timewatch, Natural World, and arena and live events including the funeral of Pope John Paul II.
[5] During this time, he oversaw the creation of The One Show, the biggest factual commission in the organisation's history.
Scholey went on to co-direct African Cats (2011), Bears (2014), and Dolphin Reef (2020) with Alastair Fothergill for Disneynature[1] and was the executive producer on the Discovery Channel series North America (2013) and Deadly Islands.