In 2007, Samuels' series "Power to the People" aired on BBC Two. Yoko Ono gave her blessing for the John Lennon song to be used as the title and soundtrack. The series saw him seizing Trafalgar Square with a platoon of abandoned soldiers, bringing a dying village from Cornwall to annex London's Islington and forming a rock group made up of lonely old people - The Zimmers. The popstar pensioners, with a 90-year-old lead singer, covered The Who song "My Generation" which then broke into the UK charts, received more than 5 million YouTube hits and saw the band appear on NBC's "The Jay Leno Show" alongside George Clooney. The "Great Granny Chart Invasion" won Best Current Affairs documentary at the Royal Television Society awards in 2008.