He is also an accomplished amateur engineer. His TV career started in when he complained about an item on TV-am that made fun of fat pets, and was invited as a guest on the show giving advice to the owner of an obese cat.
He has since fronted over 1, shows, [ 1 ] including shows based around pets, gardens and vehicles. Mark has worked as a presenter and producer on a raft of animal TV shows. Below are some examples. In , he co-devised the globally successful workshop-based "Is Born" format for Discovery Networks Europe.
The shows have transmitted in over 70 countries around the world. He also co-devised and presented Dream Machines - a prime-time vehicle restoration series on Channel 5. Animals Mark has worked as an expresenter and producer on a raft of animal shows. Below are some examples of the animal programmes that Mark has worked on. The shows are also transmitted in over 70 other countries around the world.
Mark's workshop-based series are now Discovery Network International's most successful lifestyle format. The fight to prevent avoidable disability, deformity and disease goes on. Dogs deserve better. So, I love animals of course and, more broadly, biology, but I was brought up in an engineering family. Spanners were cherished possessions when I was a lad, and they still are.
So, I also love machines. These three interests have defined my career which, true to the definition of that word, has been a bit all over the place. As I say, wrong kind of brain. Working in television was never on my radar until, one morning, ITV broadcast a feature celebrating fat cats. At the time, I had just set up a weight watchers clinic for pets — a UK first, I think. Obesity is a massive welfare problem in pets, just as it is in us. So, I rang the Channel to vent my frustration at their decision to run such an irresponsible item.
A few weeks later, a very lovely producer convinced me, against my better judgement, to be a guest on the show, to sit on the sofa, and to put things straight. Genuinely, I was amazed by the reaction from viewers. For me, it was a major wake-up call. It sounds ridiculous, but I had never even considered the power of TV to change the way people think about, and behave towards, other animals. My focus had always been on working in practice as an animal doctor GP. But, in just a few minutes on TV, I had been able to reach more people than I would see in my consulting room in a lifetime.
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