Meet the Producer

John Angier, series producer and executive producer, has been intimately involved in the creation of some of public television’s most successful national programming.  He is a founding member of the team that created the Nova science series on PBS, and was one of the series’ original episode producers; at Chedd-Angier-Lewis he co-created and co-produced PBS’s first science magazine series, Discover: The World of Science, hosted by Peter Graves, and the long-running popular science magazine Scientific American Frontiers, hosted by Alan Alda.  More than a hundred episodes of Frontiers were broadcast on the PBS national network over the course of its 15-year run.

Angier has experience working all over the world, and with many exceptional hosts and personalities.  He has placed special emphasis on bringing stories of the environment and nature to the screen, believing always that the beauty and wonders of wild places are complemented by an understanding of natural processes at work.  He executive-produced the landmark 10-part series, Race to Save the Planet, hosted by Meryl Streep, and produced the national Emmy award-winning Nova episode, Acid Rain: New Bad News.  His Nova episode The Plutonium Connection won a Special Citation from the prestigious international Prix Italia contest, the first PBS entry to do so.  As Nova’s second executive producer he won a duPont/Columbia award for the series, and as co-executive producer of Scientific American Frontiers won the Council of Scientific Society Presidents’ 1998 Sagan Award, “For outstanding achievement in improving the public understanding and appreciation of science.”