Simon Nicholls
Simon Nicholls (born 1977, in London) is a radio and TV comedy producer at the BBC.
Education and early career
Nicholls grew up in Oxford and was educated at Christ Church Cathedral School and St Edward's School, Oxford before reading law at the University of East Anglia.
Nicholls started work as a researcher on a number of TV comedy series including Room 101, Lamarr's Attacks, Jack Dee's Happy Hour and Jonathan Ross' panel show, It's Only TV But I Like It. It was whilst working on It's Only TV... that he wrote for Ross' award-winning Radio 2 show, writing for the humorous phone-in quiz called Fishy Wishy.
Work on BBC
In 2001, Nicholls became a producer at BBC Radio Entertainment. His producing credits have included The News Quiz, Ed Reardon's Week, Genius, The Ape That Got Lucky, Chris Addison's Civilization, Fabulous, This Is Craig Brown, The Club Of Queer Trades and 4 At The Store.
In 2006, Nicholls was part of the team (with Christopher Douglas and Andrew Nickolds) that won Best Radio Programme at the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards for the sitcom Ed Reardon's Week. He was also part of the team that won Gold at the 2006 Sony Radio Awards (with Chris Addison and Carl Cooper) for Addison's comic anthropological lecture series, The Ape That Got Lucky. In 2007, Nicholls was part of the team (again with Chris Addison and Carl Cooper) that won Best Radio Comedy at the North West Comedy Awards for the Radio 4 series, Chris Addison's Civilization.
Critical reviews of his work
In reviewing BBC Radio 4 on Wednesdays, The Telegraph stated, "It is so funny you can hear each episode five times (thanks to the marvellous iPlayer) and still find new things to laugh at (thanks to producer Simon Nicholls)."
When Ed Reardon approached Nicholls about an idea for a new radio show, "he was delighted. Within two months they had a series commissioned ..." Ed Reardon’s Week, which became a hit radio show for four seasons.
Recent work
Nicholls is currently working with Armando Iannucci at the BBC, developing a number of projects for television. In 2008, he produced the sitcom Lab Rats, written by Chris Addison and Carl Cooper, for BBC2. In 2009, BBC2 aired the TV version of Genius, produced by Nicholls.
External links
- Simon Nicholls' personal MySpace page