Mac & Lane Ltd
Alastair McComick
Director of Photography
& Cinematography
BROADCAST CREDITS
2025 Fearless. Director Nick Hardie
Oxford Scientific Films
2025 Stand up 2 Cancer Director Heenan Bhatti Clockwork Films
2025 Game of Wool CH4 Director Joff Wilson , Presenter Tom Daley
2025 The Rise and fall of Michelle Mone. Director Erica Jenkin , Rogan Scotland
2024 Sally MaGnusson Alzheimer's , a cure & me. Director Tim Niel
2024 Sky Arts "Art Matters" Melvin Bragg & Antony Gormley -
Director-J O'Rourke
2023/24 24Hrs in A&E Exec Rachael Smith
2022/23/24Vision 2030 OR Media. Exec Jobim Samson & Rachel Bell
2023 BBC Maestro Director Lesley Smith
2022 Superagers BBC Science Director Andrew Thompson / Sam Goss
2022 'Limitless' National Geographic Director Russ Leven
2022 Rory McEwen Arts programme on his life. Director Edie Morgan/ Alison Grist
2022 24hrs in A&E series Exec Rachael Smith
2021/22 'What Killed The Whale ' 90 min Ch4 Director Russ Leven
2021 Netflix (Red Rock Films) 'Inside the mind of a cat". Director Andy Mitchell
2021 Sky Arts 'Statues redressed'. Director Alison Grist
2021 Scotland from the Sky series 3 Director Rachel Bell
2021 MTV (Viacom) True Crime Director Tom Olney / Heather Atkins
2020 AVBR Climate Change 2020 Curious Films
2020 Michael Palin 'Travels of a Lifetime'. Director Andrew Abbot
Michael Palin Himalaya Journey of a Lifetime.
2020 Jimmy Tarbuck "The Laughs are on me'. Director Alan Brown Whisper TV - Channel 5
2019 and 2020 Beethoven 3 x 1hr BBC4. Director Phil Cairney
2019 My Family and the Galapagos 4 x 1hr CH4 SP Helga Berry
2019 Earths Sacred Wonders BBC 2 SP Matt Barrat.
Director Russ Leven, George Pagliero, Ben Crighton
2019 Netflix Film - ' Last Breath' Netflix and Cinema release.
Director Alex Parkinson and Richard Da Costa
2017 'Civilisations' Ep 1 & 9 BBC & PBS Director Tim Neil.
Presenter Simon Sharma
2017 'Earths Natural Wonders' Ethiopia & Faroe Islands
Series Producer Jobim Sampson
2017 'Scotland from the Air' Director Andy Twaddle
2017 'Billy Connolly - A Portrait of a Lifetime'. Director Liam McArdlle
Presenter Billy Connolly
2016 ‘The Hector’ BBC History Producer & Director: Andy Twaddle
2016 ‘Operation Orkney’ BBC Series Producer: Jamie Simpson
2016 ‘Scotland and the Battle for Britain’ BBC Director Mark Radice with Andrew Marr
2016 ‘City in the Sky’ BBC Science Directors: Russ Leven, Matt Barrett
Presenters: Dallas Campbell, Dr Hannah Fry
2016 ‘ Polaris - A Very British Deterrent’ BBC Factual Director: Colin Murray
2016 ‘Scotland’s War at Sea’ RTS – Best History Programme
Director: Andy Twaddle Presenter: David Hayman
2015-2016 ‘The Silk Road’ BBC Factual 3 x 1 hour Series Producer: Richard Downes
2015 ‘The Story of Scottish Art’ BBC Arts 4 x 1 hour Series Producer: Matthew Springford
2015 ‘The Secret Life of Books’ BBC Arts Director: Maurice O’Brien
Presenter John Cooper Clarke
2015 ‘The Stuarts’ BBC Factual Series Producer: Richard Downes
2015 ‘The Truth About Fat’ BBC Science Director: Matt Ainsworth
2015 ‘Catching History’s Criminals: The Forensics Story’ Director: Tim Niel
2014 ‘Britain Beneath Our Feet’ Director: Graham Russell
2014 ‘The Magic of Mushrooms’ BBC Science Director: Russell Leven
2014 ‘Deep Down & Dirty: The Science of Soil’ Director: Graham Russell
2014 ‘The Battle to Beat Polio’ Chanel 4 Director: Sarah Barclay
2014 ‘Inside the Animal Mind’ BBC Science Director: Matt Barratt
2013 ‘Sincerely, F. Scott Fitzgerald’ BBC Arts Director: Tim Niel
2013 ‘Rory Goes to Holyrood’ Comedy Unit Director: Graeme Hart
2013 Spinning A Yarn: The Dubious History of Scottish Tartan
Director: Tim Niel
2013 Abraham Lincoln: A Culture Show Special’ Director: Lesley Smith
2013 ‘Ice Age Art: A Culture Show Special’ Director: Liam McArdle
2012 ‘Addicted to Pleasure’(Series Cameraman 4 x 1hr) Executive Producer: Richard Downes
Presenter: Brian Cox
2012 ‘What’s the Earth Worth?’ History Channel - 90 mins feature
2011 ‘In Orbit – How Satellites Rule Our World’ Director: Shaun Trevisick
2011 ‘Jonathan Meades on France’ Director: Tim Neil Presenter
2011 ‘Brave New World - Stephen Hawking’ Director: Louise Say
2011 ‘Frontline Medicine’ Director: Neil Ferguson
Hugh Dennis
2011 ‘The Last Explorers’ 4 x 1hr Antarctica / Yosemite / Africa / Japan (BBC Series)
2010 ‘ Scotland's Landscape’(BBC Series) Series Producer: Richard Downes
2010 ‘Talkie Time’ BBC Learning Series 2 (DOP on Series 1, 2 & 3)
2009 ‘Deco Gems’ BBC 4 3 x 1hr Director Colin Lennox
2009 ‘Jonathon Meades - Off Kilter’ Director: Colin Murray
2009 ‘Scotland Revealed’ 3 x 1hr Hi-Def - ITV
2009 ‘Portrait of Scotland’ 90 mins doc Peter Capaldi on Scottish figurative art
2009 ‘How to Build a Nuclear Submarine’ BBC Factual
2009 ‘When Piers Met Sir Cliff’ Piers Morgan interview Sir Cliff Richard in Barbados)
2008 ‘David Dimbleby - Seven Ages of Britain’ Hi-Def
2008 ‘Shell Guides to Britain’ John Betjeman‘s Shell Guide to Britain 1930s
2008 ‘Robert Burns 250 Anniversary’ BBC – 90 mins + 3 x half hr
2008 ‘Best of British Design Fashion’ BBC x 1 hr
2008 ‘Wild About Your Garden’ BBC 6 x 1 hr
2007 ‘Jimmy’s Farming Heroes’ BBC Celebration of British farming
2007 ‘Granddad is Back in Business’ Ob Doc for BBC2 Director: Catherine Hagan
2007 ‘Apprectice Behind the Scenes’ 2 x 1 hr Director: Clarie Hobday
2007 ‘Filthy Rich and Homeless’ Ob Doc for BBC 3 Director: Catherine Hagan
2006 ‘Saving Planet Earth’ NHU - Filming Wolves in Ethiopia Director: Helga Berry
2006 ‘How We Built Britain’ David Dimbleby
2006 ‘Jonathon Meades - Abroad Again’ BBC Arts Director: Tim Neil
2006 ‘Horizon- Ice Man’ Director: Nick Green
2006 ‘Animal Planet – Tigress’ Elephants Botswana /African rats looking for land mines - Mozambique
2005 ‘Sex Inspectors Series 2’ Series Producer: Claire Hobday
2005 ‘The Apprentice – Tim, you're hired’ Director: Claire Hobday
2004 ‘The Challenge’ Filming the Volvo Ocean race in the Baltic on board and in support boat
2004 ‘Britain's Best Buildings Jonathon Meades’ Director: Tim Neil
2004 ‘Time Team’ 3 programmes in this series
2004 ‘Journey of Life’ Doc on evolution for 2005 - filming chimps in Cameroon BBC Bristol
2003 ‘Inventions that Changed the World’ BBC Science Director: Neil Ferguson
Presenter: Jeremy Clarkson
2003 ‘Grand Designs’ CH4 Talkback Productions
2002 ‘Extreme Machines’ Discovery - Hi-Def Armoured vehicles filming in Mexico City and America
2002 ‘Extreme Machines’ Discovery - 21st Century Flight / The Making
2002 ‘Planet Soccer’ Discovery -Travel documentary in Japan and Korea leading up to the world cup
2002 ‘Extreme Lives’ BBC Everest Documentary
© 2014 by Alastair McCormick Director of Photography