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.