Brian Grant
Episodes Broadcast: 2005
After completing a degree in fine art at University College London,
Brian Grant found work as a cameraman at Elstree Studios around 1970.
Over the course of the following decade, he was a camera operator on
programmes like The Muppet Show. In 1979, Grant began directing
for the then-nascent genre of music videos, and won a Grammy Award for
Olivia Newton-John's 1981 single Physical. He co-founded the
influential MGMM Productions in 1982, and made more than two hundred
music videos during his career. Grant started to move into television
drama in the mid-Eighties, beginning with two episodes of the Canadian
thriller anthology The Hitchhiker.
During the Nineties, Grant's focus had firmly shifted to television, and
he earned credits on shows like She-Wolf Of London,
Highlander: The Raven, Bugs and Lucy Sullivan Is
Getting Married. He made a handful of movies, including 1995's
The Immortals starring Eric Roberts, in which he also made a
cameo appearance. Following the turn of the century, Grant co-created
As If, which he both produced and directed. He made episodes of
Hex, Love Bytes in Australia, and Clocking Off for
Red Productions, which had a strong association with Russell T Davies.
When Davies became the executive producer of Doctor Who, he
invited Grant -- a longtime admirer of the programme -- to direct 2005's
The Long Game, starring
Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor.
Grant subsequently worked on programmes including Sinchronicity,
Party Animals and Life Is Wild, and he was both a producer
and director on Britannia High. During the 2010s, his credits
included Sinbad, Waterloo Road, New Tricks and the
2017 version of The Worst Witch. Grant also made a number of
documentaries about the music industry which were informed by his
earlier career experiences, most notably several seasons of Video
Killed The Radio Star.
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