ABSTRACT
Since 1997, Nick Fraser has been series editor of Storyville, which each year presents up to 50 documentaries from all over the world on BBC Two and BBC Four. Roughly a third of the films are bought as completed films, while the rest are “prebought” or commissioned jointly with other broadcasters. (For example, Storyville coproduced So Much So Fast. The film’s credits read: “A production of West City Films in association with WGBH, ZDF/ARTE, BBC, with support from TV2/Danmark.” In the United States, the film will air on PBS’s Frontline; in the United Kingdom, it will air on BBC’s Storyville.)
Prior to joining the BBC, Nick was a commissioning editor at Channel Four and operated his own production company, Panop tic Productions. A former print journalist, he continues to be a contributing editor at Harper’s magazine and is the author of books including Evita, The Voice of Modern Hatred, and the forthcoming The Importance of Being Eton. We spoke by phone in 2006.
