Investigative Nonfiction Writer | Factual Television Producer

I’m Andrew Carolan — a writer and producer with over twenty years’ experience shaping long-form stories across television, documentary, and commercial media.

My work sits at the intersection of narrative, evidence, and institutional power. After two decades producing and editing factual content — from documentary and current affairs to branded and corporate storytelling — I’m now focused on long-form investigative nonfiction that examines how systems endure through silence, exposure, and performance.

Writing

I’m currently completing a work of investigative nonfiction exploring power, accountability, and the ways scrutiny is managed rather than avoided. I write publicly alongside the project on Substack, focusing on investigative method, narrative structure, and the conditions under which stories stall.

Television & Film

I’ve worked across factual television, documentary, and entertainment for broadcasters including the BBC, Channel 4, ITV, Discovery, National Geographic, CNN, MTV, Sky, and others. My roles have spanned editing, producing, directing, story producing, and post production — often working end-to-end from development through delivery.

I began my career producing films inside large institutions — first in corporate environments, then across television, documentary, and advertising. Early work ranged from financial and political content to science, environment, and culture, often involving complex subjects, reputational risk, and competing incentives.

Over the years I’ve worked across five continents and in multiple roles — editor, producer, director, story producer, and post producer — on projects spanning factual television, documentary, entertainment, and commercial campaigns. This breadth exposed me not just to storytelling, but to how narratives are shaped, constrained, and sometimes softened depending on context.

That experience now informs my writing. Investigative nonfiction allows for a level of depth, precision, and accountability that shorter formats often can’t sustain. My work focuses less on individual actors than on systems: how power is maintained, how silence operates, and how transparency can function as performance rather than illumination.