Dan Glendenning

Dan Glendenning, honestly, has a filmography that feels like a wild grab bag of British TV’s most curious corners. You might’ve caught his name rolling in the credits if you spent a rainy weekend glued to Prehistoric Park back in 2006. That show? A delightful mashup of science, history, and CGI dinos stomping around as if they’d never gone extinct. Glendenning’s work there helped make ancient beasts feel oddly at home on your telly, which, let’s be real, isn’t something you see every day. Jump ahead to 2015, and he pops up in Wastemen—yeah, the one about the unsung heroes wrangling the UK’s mountains of trash. It’s gritty, a bit grimy, but also kind of touching? He’s got this knack for finding the human angle in stuff most of us just walk past, like the people who keep the city from drowning in its own rubbish. Not glamorous work, but someone’s gotta show what goes down behind the bins. And don’t forget Underground Britain (2005). Less about tube maps, more about the secrets lurking beneath the streets—think hidden rivers, long-abandoned tunnels, and stories that don’t make it into your average guidebook. There’s an explorer’s vibe to Glendenning’s projects, a curiosity for what’s buried (sometimes literally) in everyday life. His credits might not scream blockbuster, but they’ve got a certain charm—he’s clearly into the odd, the overlooked, and the kind of stories that usually slip through the cracks. If you’re into that offbeat, documentary-style peek behind the curtain, his stuff hits the spot.