Simon Nicholls

Simon Nicholls (born 1977, in London) is a radio and TV comedy producer at the BBC.

Nicholls grew up in Oxford and was educated at Christ Church Cathedral School (Oxford) 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".

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".

Nicholls is currently working with Armando Iannucci at the BBC, developing a number of projects for television. In 2008, he is producing a new sitcom called "Lab Rats", written by Chris Addison and Carl Cooper, for BBC2. Also in 2008, Nicholls will produce a TV series of "Genius" for BBC2.

One of the many Nicholls fansites has recently rumoured that Simon is working on a film and tie-in lunchbox entitled "Project Jambo". Nicholls has refused to comment.