Spotted by the BBC Natural History Unit, Uhlenbroek made her UK television debut in the series "Dawn to Dusk," presented by Jonathan Scott, in an episode on the chimpanzees of Gombe Stream National Park. She went on to present the BBC Two programme "Chimpanzee Diary" as part of the "Animal Zone" during 1998 and 1999. Uhlenbroek subsequently presented a number of documentaries (both series and one-off programmes) for the BBC, including: "Cousins" (2000), "Congo's Secret Chimps" (2001), "Talking with Animals" (2002), "Jungle" (2003), "Secret Gorillas of Mondika" (2005). In 2004, she was one of the subjects of the short documentary series "The Way We Went Wild", about television's natural history presenters.