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Graduate director makes cinema debut with Ant & Dec

(5 April 2006)

Durham graduate Jonny Campbell, who has directed such television hits as Shameless, Phoenix Nights and episodes of Peak Practice, has made his feature film debut directing the cult duo Ant and Dec.

Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly star in Alien Autopsy, as two English friends involved in one of the great UFO stories about an alleged secret military film of aliens who were said to have crash landed near Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. Award-winning Campbell, who gained a degree in French and German at Durham, started his career at Granada Television in Manchester, first in documentary and from 1995 in drama. Film details at

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