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Colin Cant is a British television director, producer and scenic designer, best known for his work for the children's department of BBC Television from the 1970s to the 1990s. After beginning his career as a designer, he moved to directing and worked on many BBC children's series.
May 8, 2022 · Director Colin Cant talks about making the BBC drama Moondial (1988). "Light and Shadow by Turns, But Always Love." A story of ghosts and time travel by the light of the moon.
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Colin Cant is known for Grange Hill (1978), Emmerdale Farm (1972) and Dark Season (1991).
- Director, Producer, Production Designer
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Feb 28, 2023 · A story of ghosts and time travel by the light of the moon. Moondial (1988) is a classic children's fantasy drama written by Helen Cresswell, who also wrote the 1987 novel on which the...
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Apr 13, 2021 · Colin Cant, of Cramlington, sexually assaulted a woman in a lift and a probe by his employer revealed 13 women had complained about him when he worked for the police
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Director Colin Cant is perhaps best known to genre fans for directing Russell T Davies’ two serials for children’s TV, Dark Season and Century Falls, but his work in the field predates those. In 1988, he was at the helm of Moondial, based on the book by Helen Cresswell, which is finally getting an unedited…
STARBURST spoke to Moondial’s now-retired director, Colin Cant – whose own previous credits include Russell T Davies’s early children’s series Dark Season (starring a very young Kate Winslet) and Century Falls about this haunting and fondly-remembered drama…
