Nicola Moody joined Optomen Television in May 2005 as Director of Factual Programmes after a successful career at the BBC including the commissioning of “The Naked Chef”.
Nicola became Controller of Factual Commissioning in 2000 and as part of the senior management team of the BBC Nicola commissioned documentary and feature programmes from in–house production and independents for BBC1, BBC2, BBC3 and BBC4. During this period she commissioned many award winning series including Sahara with Michael Palin, Great Britons, Double Take, Restoration and What Not To Wear. After this success, Nicola went on to become the Controller of the newly created BBC Four bringing hugely successful drama series and documentary projects to the channel.
At Optomen she has been responsible for creating successful Factual programmes for the BBC, Channel Four, Discovery and Sky Television. Her slate of programmes range from the social science documentary series, Making Slough Happy; the ambitious science project Chain Reaction; the hugely successful format series Great British Menu and the new autobiographical documentary format My Way.