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John Macnish is a British television producer & Self shooting director based in France. He was a TV producer at the BBC studios. He currently films & produces for Channel 4 television.
Life
John Surgeon Macnish was born in Carlisle, England on 25 September 1956. He was educated at
Austin Friars School, Carlisle, and
Sheffield University
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, receiving a degree in Prehistory & Archaeology.
As a television producer, he worked for the
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before setting up his own company, Circlevision Ltd, in 1991. He served as a Senior Lecturer and course leader in Television Production at the
University of Central Lancashire from 2009 to 2014.
Television career
After working as a lecturer at the BBC's Engineering Training Department Macnish moved into mainstream TV production
at the BBC studios at Pebble Mill in Birmingham. He was studio director on the live lunchtime light entertainment show 'Daytime Live' and also directed 'The Chelsea Flower Show', 'Top Gear' and 'Scene Today'.
Between 1992 and 1994 Macnish produced the award-winning BBC series
'The Human Animal' written and presented by renowned zoologist
Desmond Morris
Desmond John Morris FLS ''hon. caus.'' (born 24 January 1928) is an English zoologist, ethologist and surrealist painter, as well as a popular author in human sociobiology. He is known for his 1967 book '' The Naked Ape'', and for his televis ...
.
In 1996 he produced 'Salmon Against the Tides' presented by
Sir David Attenborough
Sir David Frederick Attenborough (; born 8 May 1926) is an English broadcaster, biologist, natural historian and author. He is best known for writing and presenting, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, the nine natural histor ...
a co-production between the BBC & Discovery US.
In 1991 Macnish set up Circlevision Productions in partnership with his wife Jayne. The company went on to produce commercial productions and broadcast series including the notable BBC space science series "Final Frontier" and the observational documentary series following the
Beagle 2
The ''Beagle 2'' is an inoperative British Mars lander that was transported by the European Space Agency's 2003 ''Mars Express'' mission. It was intended to conduct an astrobiology mission that would have looked for evidence of past life on Mar ...
project to look for life on Mars led by Prof.
Colin Pillinger.
Macnish's production credits include:
*Series producer, ''
Scrapheap Challenge
''Scrapheap Challenge'' is a British television show where teams of contestants build a working machine that can perform a specific task, using materials available in a scrapyard. The series features teams of four or five members who are given ...
'', Channel 4
*Series producer, ''Beagle 2-A Mission to Mars'', BBC
*Series producer, ''Personal Passions'', BBC
*Producer, ''Watercolour Challenge'', Channel 4
*Producer, ''
Future Weapons
''Future Weapons'', sometimes also written as ''FutureWeapons'' and ''Futureweapons'', is a television series that premiered on April 19, 2006, on the Discovery Channel. Host Richard "Mack" Machowicz, a former Navy SEAL, reviews and demonstrates ...
'', Discovery Channel
*''Antiques Road Trip'', BBC
*Series director, ''
Pawn Stars UK'', season 2, History Channel.
Bibliography
'Crop Circle Apocalypse'
- A personal investigation into the Crop circle phenomenon
References
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1956 births
Living people
People from Carlisle, Cumbria
English television producers