Nina Metivier
{{Short description|British screenwriter}}
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Nina Metivier is a British screenwriter,{{Cite web|url=https://www.berlinassociates.com/clients/nina-metivier/|title=Berlin Associates » Nina Metivier}} best known for co-creating the teen thriller The A List.
Early life and education
Metivier was educated at Stockport Grammar School.{{Cite web|url=https://www.stockportgrammar.co.uk/alumni/alumni-stories/story/nina-metivier/|title = Nina Métivier - Alumni Stories}} Metivier credited Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy for inspiring her to write.{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2019/12/british-tv-writers-to-watch-in-2020-1202815841/|title = The British Invasion: Ten Rising TV Scribes to Watch Out for in 2020|date = 27 December 2019}}
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.{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/games/dixi |title=BBC - CBBC - Dixi |website=www.bbc.co.uk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140212023118/http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/games/dixi |archive-date=2014-02-12}} It won the BAFTA award for Original Interactive Show in 2014.{{cite web |author=Leo Barraclough |url=https://variety.com/2014/film/awards/warner-bros-lego-movie-takes-bafta-kids-award-1201363366/ |title=Warner Bros.' 'Lego Movie' Takes BAFTA Kids' Award |work=Variety |date=24 November 2014 |accessdate=2016-08-01}} In 2018, she would reteam with Berlinka for The A List, which released on BBC iPlayer on 25 October 2018.{{cite web |last=Preece |first=Caroline |url=https://www.denofgeek.com/uk/tv/the-a-list/61526/the-a-list-review |title=The A List review |website=Den of Geek |date=3 November 2018 |accessdate=8 August 2019}}{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-45989788 |title=The A List: The BBC teen drama taking on Netflix |work=BBC News |date=28 October 2018 |accessdate=8 August 2019 |last=Rackham |first=Annabel}} The series would move to Netflix for the second season, which she also co-wrote.{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2019/12/netflix-going-it-alone-on-season-two-of-the-a-list-1202816307/|title=Netflix Going It Alone On Second Season Of Teen Drama 'The A List' After BBC Pulls Out|last=Kanter|first=Jake|date=28 December 2019|website=Deadline Hollywood|access-date=4 January 2020}}
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".{{cite web |url=https://cultbox.co.uk/general/doctor-who-series-12-new-episode-titles-writers-and-descriptions |title=Doctor Who Series 12: new episode titles, writers and descriptions |work=Cult Box |first=Andrea |last=Laford |date=9 January 2020|access-date=9 January 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000dlc3 |title=BBC Doctor Who Episode 4 |work=BBC |date=8 January 2020 |access-date=8 January 2020}} Metivier also wrote episodes for After the Flood and Fool Me Once.
References
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External links
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Category:21st-century British women writers
Category:British television writers
Category:British women television writers