About the Author

Nicola Lees is an experienced TV development producer who has worked in the television industry – in London and New York – for more than a decade. She has developed documentaries, docudramas, multiplatform and reality programmes for network and cable channels, including the BBC1, BBC2, BBC3, BBC4, in the UK and Discovery Channel, Travel Channel, National Geographic and TLC in the USA.

She has written more than 400 factual television programme proposals, attended countless pitch meetings and has been directly involved in researching, writing or pitching more than 80 commissioned programmes, many of which have won industry awards.

She featured on the TV Collective Alternative Power List 2010