Neil Buchanan

Neil Buchanan is an affable, fast-talking Liverpudlian who left school with 5 0-Levels (including art) after being turned down by Liverpool Art College. He knew little of the ways of television until a short-lived career as a rock star in the mid-seventies collapsed in the inevitable morass of litigation and bad debt. When looking for a job, one advert in particular caught his eye, "Have You Ever Had Breakfast With A Gorilla?" It was advertising for acts on a new TVS Saturday morning children's show and, although he didn't get the part of the presenter, he was offered a spot on the anarchic kids' TV show, No 73, as a caricaturist. The rest as they say is history; Buchanan has since presented many children's TV programs including No 73, Motormouth (1988), Finders Keepers (1991) and ZZZap! (1993). He then collaborated with Tim Edmunds to invent, present and produce Art Attack (1990), ITV's acclaimed children's art show. In the past five years, few of ITV children's shows have been as co