John Macnish is a British television producer and self shooting director.

Television career

After working as a lecturer at the BBC's Engineering Training Department and before moving into mainstream TV production at the studios at

Pebble Mill Pebble Mill Studios was the BBC's television studio complex located in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, which served as the headquarters for BBC Birmingham from 1971 until 2004. The nine-acre site was opened by Princess Anne on ...

in Birmingham, he was studio director on the live lunchtime light entertainment show ''Daytime Live'' and also directed '' The Chelsea Flower Show'', ''

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'' and ''Scene Today''. Between 1992 and 1994, Macnish produced the BBC series '' The Human Animal'' written and presented by 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

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in a co-production between the BBC and 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 BBC space science series ''Final Frontier'' and the observational documentary series following the

Beagle 2 The ''Beagle 2'' was 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 M ...

project to look for life on Mars led by

Colin Pillinger Colin Trevor Pillinger, (; 9 May 1943 – 7 May 2014) was an English planetary scientist. He was a founding member of the Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute at Open University in Milton Keynes, he was also the principal invest ...

References

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