Simon Nicholls

Simon Nicholls (born 14th of December 1977, in London) is a Radio and TV comedy producer at the BBC.

Simon 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.

Simon's producing credits have included The News Quiz, Ed Reardon's Week, Genius, The Ape That Got Lucky, Chris Addison's Civilization, This Is Craig Brown and 4 At The Store.

In 2006, Simon 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. Simon was also part of the team that won Gold at the 2006 Sony Radio Awards (with Chris Addison and Carl Cooper) for Chris' comic anthropological lecture series, The Ape That Got Lucky.

Simon is currently working with Armando Iannucci at the BBC, developing a number of projects for television.

Later in 2007, Simon will be producing a new sitcom called Lab Rats, written by Chris Addison and Carl Cooper, for BBC2.