High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Survival is one of television`s longest-running and most successful nature documentary series. Originally produced by Anglia Television for ITV in the United Kingdom, it was created by Aubrey Buxton (later Baron Buxton of Alsa), a founder director of Anglia TV, and first broadcast in 1961.Survival films and film-makers won more than 250 awards worldwide, including four Emmy Awards and a BAFTA.