Pip Banyard

Pip Banyard has been a Coronation Street director since 2007. Previously an independent programme maker of popular documentaries such as 100 Greatest TV Moments from Hell, Bad Hair Days and Les Dawson's Lost Diaries, he won the chance to work on Granada drama productions as part of a talent initiative put forward by the company in 2004 whereby the winners would be mentored for a year by an experienced director with a view to working on Coronation Street and Emmerdale. The other winning candidates who eventually worked on the programme were Sean Crotty, Mark McKillop, Neil Alderton and Dayle Evans-Kar.