ABOUT US
Cheeky Grin is a film, TV & branded content outfit that believes storytelling can be weaponised to inspire & entertain.
Nicky Waltham steers the ship at Cheeky Grin. She’s an award-winning executive producer & series producer/director who has developed, overseen and delivered landmark commissions such as the multi award winning and much loved Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing, the classic road trip series Billy Connolly’s Route 66, International Emmy winning 50 Ways To Kill Your Mammy, the super-stylish Richard E. Grant’s Hotel Secrets and more recently the RTS award winning Frankie Boyle’s Tour of Scotland.
Currently collaborating on the hit podcast series I’m ADHD! No You’re Not with Dr Mine Conkbayir MBE and comedy actor Paul Whitehouse, Cheeky Grin has a history of working with big names to make noisy and award winning propositions.
Our first short film Tiny Cow staring Trisha Allison (Sex Education), Oliver Maltman (Back, Another Year), Caroline Quentin (Bridgerton, Men Behaving Badly) & Paul Whitehouse (The Death Of Stalin, The Fast Show) was properly hampered by the pandemic. Even so, it took its premier running in competition at the Brooklyn Film Festival.
ABOUT NICKY
I love my job. I work hard, I’m creative and I like to have fun, but I’m a bugger for the detail. I’m an ideas person, a passionate pitcher & enthusiastic collaborator with over twenty years of successful development & scores of commissions.
My collaboration with Paul Whitehouse & Bob Mortimer on Gone Fishing saw me take the idea from paragraph to pilot & beyond to a BAFTA, R.T.S. & Broadcast Award bothering, Broadcast Press & Guild Award winning series. As the only documentary maker on the top table, I brought the style and techniques from my genre into theirs.
I collaborated with Glasgow based Two Rivers to produce Frankie Boyles Tour Of Scotland. It won the Scottish RTS for Comedy and was nominated for the Scottish BAFTA.
As a development producer I’ve taken ideas from top line to delivery, which has allowed me to work with luminaries such as Julie Walters, Caroline Quentin, Kathy Burke, Tom Hardy, Ray Mears, Joanna Lumley and the Spice Girls.
My work as series producer and exec on Billy Connolly’s Route 66 and Baz Ashmawy on 50 Ways To Kill Your Mammy saw me on the winning team at the RTS, IFTA’s & International Emmy awards.
Interwoven amongst the good stuff, when my best friend Grandma Peg died, I took a year off to write. The chance to breathe and to grieve was cathartic & freeing. I’m fascinated by the human condition. I have studied and have a diploma in end-of-life care and in 2025 I gained my foundation level qualification in counselling skills.
Summer 2024 onwards has seen me up to my eyebrows in neurodiversity as the exec producer of the hit podcast series I’m ADHD! No You’re Not. Guests have included Sir Stephen Fry, Armando Iannucci, Alison Moyet and many more.
Outside of Cheeky Grin, I’m a gun for hire. Always up for a chat about the next adventure.
TELEVISION, DRAMA, PODCASTS
BRANDED CONTENT
