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BBC alums’ prodcos tackle Tic

Lewis Nickell with DJ Fatboy Slim

Lewis Nickell with DJ Fatboy Slim

Belfast-based producer Nice One Productions has partnered with a fledgling prodco launched by the founder of 12 Yard Productions on a show featuring a YouTube star with Tourette’s syndrome.

What Makes You Tic? is being produced by Nice One, set up by former BBC and Tern Television producer Chris Jones, and David Young’s Hindsight Productions.

The latter prodco has been launched by Young (The Weakest Link, Eggheads, Coach Trip), who founded 12 Yard in 2001. The former head of light entertainment at the BBC left his company in 2010 having sold it to ITV for £35m (US$45m) two years earlier.

Nice One and Hindsight are coproduction partners on comedy talkshow What Makes You Tic?, which has backing from Northern Ireland Screen. It is being presented by internet star and vlogger Lewis Nickell, who has Tourette’s.

The show will feature Lewis in studio and on location interviewing celebrities, alongside comedy segments, games and performances from stand-up comedians.

DJ Fatboy Slim and actress Bronagh Waugh (The Fall) are confirmed as guests for the pilot, which will be directed by Ed Tracy (Fonejacker).

  

 

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