Grant Best

SVP Original Programming and Content Development at DAZN

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Grant Best is a BAFTA and Sports EMMY winning TV producer/director and SVP Original Programming and Content Development at DAZN, the world’s first pure-sport live and on demand streaming service. Specialising in premium sport content, Grant produced the critically acclaimed documentary Rio Ferdinand: Being Mum and Dad which was awarded the BAFTA for Best Single Documentary in 2018. He joined DAZN following hugely successful stints at BT Sport, ESPN and Sky Sports.

At DAZN, Grant is responsible for driving the platform’s original content strategy which includes the most recent collaboration with Uninterrupted and Golden Boy Productions, “40 DAYS”, a boxing documentary series on Canelo Alvarez and Danny Jacobs; “In Our Blood,” a three-part docuseries exploring Spain’s passion for MotoGP through the generations featuring World Champions Àlex Crivillé, Jorge Lorenzo and Marc Márquez, and the first DAZN documentary series “Canelo v Rocky” which took fans backstage at the super middleweight championship fight between Canelo Alvarez and Rocky Fielding at Madison Square Garden.