Editing Victor Lewis-Smith (section)

===Television===
====TV====
Lewis-Smith contributed to a number of productions for British television:

* In 1989, he wrote and presented eighteen episodes of ''Buy-gones'' for ''[[Club X]]'' on [[Channel 4]], and contributed sketch scripts for [[Central Independent Television|Central]]'s ''[[Spitting Image]]''
* ''Up Your Arts'' (compiled from his contributions to Channel 4 show ''Club X''; 1992)<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/media/2002/oct/18/mediamonkey|title=The worst of Channel 4 (part 3)|date=18 October 2002|website=The Guardian}}</ref>
* ''[[Inside Victor Lewis-Smith]]'' (1993) in which he is a virtually [[unseen character]], the series taking place inside the head of a man having old BBC programmes played into his life support machine
* ''[[TV Offal]]'' on Channel 4 (pilot 1997; series 1998)
* ''TV Offal Prime Cuts'' on Channel 4; 1999
* ''[[Ads Infinitum]]'' for [[BBC Two]] (pilot 1996; two series, 1998 and 2000)
* ''Z For Fake'' for [[BBC Two]] in 2001 (8 programmes)
* ''The Barftas'' for [[Channel 4]] in 2002 <ref name="auto"/>
* ''The Vicious Circle'' for [[Channel 5 (UK)]] in 2002
* Has anyone seen Junfan? (2002, ITV pilot)
* ''Here's a Piano I Prepared Earlier'' for [[BBC Four]] (2005, narrator and producer)
* ''Jake on the Box'' for [[BBC Four]] (2006, narrator and producer)

====As producer====
On 1 January 2021, the Sky Documentaries Channel aired "Steve McQueen: The Lost Movie", presented by David Letterman.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/february-2021/72/steve-mcqueens-lost-f1-movie-day-of-the-champion|title=Steve McQueen's lost F1 movie: Day of The Champion|work=motorsportmagazine.com|date=22 December 2020 }}</ref>

Lewis-Smith's documentary, ''The Undiscovered [[Peter Cook]]'', was the first in a series transmitted on [[BBC Four]] in November 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2016/11/16/the-undiscovered-peter-cook-was-like-spending-an-hourwith-your-f|work=[[Daily Telegraph]]|title=The Undiscovered Peter Cook was like spending an hour with your funniest friend – review|first=Michael|last=Hogan|date=16 November 2016}}{{subscription required}}</ref> In December 2018, Lewis-Smith made three more documentaries in the style of ''The Undiscovered Peter Cook'' for Sky Arts, this time concerning [[Peter Sellers]], [[Kenneth Williams]] and [[Tony Hancock]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2018/06/08/40187/new_tributes_to_three_troubled_comedy_geniuses |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614063520/https://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2018/06/08/40187/new_tributes_to_three_troubled_comedy_geniuses |url-status=dead |archive-date=2018-06-14 |title=New tributes to three troubled comedy geniuses}}</ref>  Lewis-Smith was executive producer of a series of controversial documentaries presented by [[Keith Allen (actor)|Keith Allen]] for Channel 4. This included biographies of  [[Nick Griffin]], then leader of the [[British National Party]], Lottery winner [[Michael Carroll (lottery winner)|Michael Carroll]], the TV cook [[Keith Floyd]] (who died two hours before the programme was transmitted), and the "child prodigy" [[Lauren Harries]].<ref>{{cite news|author=Keith Allen |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/keith-allen-how-i-hunted-down-nick-griffin-7534755.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220817/https://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/keith-allen-how-i-hunted-down-nick-griffin-7534755.html |archive-date=17 August 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Keith Allen: How I hunted down Nick Griffin – Commentators – Opinion |work=The Independent |date=4 March 2012 |access-date=14 March 2012 |location=London}}</ref>

Lewis-Smith was executive producer of a series of 44 television programmes called ''21st-Century Bach - The Complete Organ Works''. The series started on [[BBC Two]] in June 2003 and ran for six years.  The series has since aired on [[Sky Arts]].  [[John Scott Whiteley]] was the organist.

From 2010, Lewis-Smith was the executive producer of ''[[In Confidence]]'', a series of one-to-one interviews, featuring leading figures from the arts. Presented by [[Laurie Taylor (sociologist)|Laurie Taylor]], this production for [[Sky Arts]] was well received in a television review by the ''Daily Telegraph'', with the ''Telegraph'' noting that "In an age of soapy soundbites, Sky Arts hour-long interview strand is a serious attempt to delve deeper into its subjects."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8451761/In-Confidence-Peter-and-Christopher-Hitchens-Sky-Arts-1-review.html|work=Daily Telegraph|title=In Confidence: Peter and Christopher Hitchens, Sky Arts 1, review|first=Ceri|last=Radford|date=15 April 2011}}{{subscription required}}</ref> Guests included [[Peter Maxwell Davies]], [[Lily Allen]], [[Damien Hirst]], [[Tracey Emin]], [[Richard Dawkins]], [[Cleo Laine]], [[Christopher Hitchens]], [[Peter Hitchens]], [[Kathy Burke]] and [[Stephen Fry]].{{citation needed|date=December 2021}}