Nina Metivier

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Nina Metivier
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Screenwriter, script editor, television producer
Known for The A List
Doctor Who

Nina Metivier is a British screenwriter, [1] best known for co-creating the teen thriller The A List .

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Early life and education

Metivier was educated at Stockport Grammar School. [2] Metivier credited Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy for inspiring her to write. [3]

Career

Metivier began her career in children's television, working as a script editor and development executive at Kindle Entertainment. She began a running collaboration with Dan Berlinka in 2014, co-creating and writing the children's mystery series Dixi for CBBC Online. [4] It won the BAFTA award for Original Interactive Show in 2014. [5] In 2018, she would reteam with Berlinka for The A List, which released on BBC iPlayer on 25 October 2018. [6] [7] The series would move to Netflix for the second season, which she also co-wrote. [8]

She continued script editing on The Life and Adventures of Nick Nickleby and the eleventh series of Doctor Who . She would later write the fourth episode of the twelfth series, "Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror". [9] [10] Metivier also wrote episodes for After the Flood and Fool Me Once .

References

  1. "Berlin Associates » Nina Metivier".
  2. "Nina Métivier - Alumni Stories".
  3. "The British Invasion: Ten Rising TV Scribes to Watch Out for in 2020". 27 December 2019.
  4. "BBC - CBBC - Dixi". www.bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 12 February 2014.
  5. Leo Barraclough (24 November 2014). "Warner Bros.' 'Lego Movie' Takes BAFTA Kids' Award". Variety . Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  6. Preece, Caroline (3 November 2018). "The A List review". Den of Geek . Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  7. Rackham, Annabel (28 October 2018). "The A List: The BBC teen drama taking on Netflix". BBC News . Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  8. Kanter, Jake (28 December 2019). "Netflix Going It Alone On Second Season Of Teen Drama 'The A List' After BBC Pulls Out". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved 4 January 2020.
  9. Laford, Andrea (9 January 2020). "Doctor Who Series 12: new episode titles, writers and descriptions". Cult Box. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  10. "BBC Doctor Who Episode 4". BBC. 8 January 2020. Retrieved 8 January 2020.