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List Of Directors Of BBC Children's
The Director of BBC Children's is the Editorial Head of BBC Children's and Education BBC Children's and Education is the BBC division responsible for media content for children in the UK. Since the launch of specially dedicated television channels in 2002, the services have been marketed under two brands. CBBC (short for Chil ... though the post has had a variety of titles since the department's inception in 1950. The position is line managed by Charlotte Moore. References {{Reflist BBC executives ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Children's And Education
BBC Children's and Education is the BBC division responsible for media content for children in the UK. Since the launch of specially dedicated television channels in 2002, the services have been marketed under two brands. CBBC (short for Children's BBC or initialed for Children's British Broadcasting Corporation) is aimed at children aged between 6 and 12, and CBeebies offers content for younger viewers. Unlike CBeebies, the CBBC brand pre-dates the launch of these channels and before 2002, CBBC was also the brand name used for all of the BBC's children's programmes. CBBC broadcasts from 7:00am to 7:00pm (previously 7:00am to 9:00pm until 4 January 2022) and CBeebies broadcasts from 6:00am to 7:00pm, respectively timesharing with BBC Three for CBBC and BBC Four for CBeebies. The brands also have dedicated websites, social media channels and over-the-top media services on BBC iPlayer. History 1930–1952 The BBC has produced and broadcast television programmes for childre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Moore (TV Executive)
Charlotte Alexandra Moore (born 19 June 1968)"Charlotte Moore" Companies in the UK is a British television executive who is the BBC's Chief Content Officer. She was appointed to this role in September 2020, having been Director of Content since early 2016 when she assumed responsibility for all of the BBC's television channels after the controller posts were abolished. Moore was Controller of from 2013 to 2016, in the position of which she was reported to be in charge of a budget of more than £1 billion. Moore has, since 2005, been a trustee of the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Hidalgo Reina
Patricia Hidalgo Reina is a broadcasting executive and the current Director of BBC Children's and Education. BBC Children's Patricia Hildago Reina was announced as the 19th director of BBC Children's and Education on 5 May 2020. Taking over her responsibilities during the COVID-19 epidemic led her to increase the amount of education programming available to children unable to attend school during lockdown. In addition to education provision on the BBC Children's services (CBBC and CBeebies) a commitment was made to make at least two hours of secondary school content each day on BBC 2. In February 2021 she launched her programme strategy, to invest in British Animation that might match the cultural impact of The Simpsons. "We should be thinking about these things. Children grow up with these cultures. Why not infuse more of our culture?" she has stated. Earlier career She began her broadcasting career at Canal+ in Spain. Moving to The Walt Disney Company in 2008 she managed the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Webb
Alice Webb is a British television executive. She is CEO of Mercury Studios, an arm of the Universal Music Group, established on her appointment in 2020. The newly formed company is the parent of Eagle Rock Entertainment. She was previously president of WPATH in 1999. BBC Children's Prior to this role, she was Director of BBC Children's, leading the BBC's services for UK children. She had been appointed to this role in March 2015, when Webb was chief operating officer, BBC North where she had been responsible for moving BBC Children's, 5 Live, and the BBC Learning and BBC Sport divisions out of London to a new campus based at Salford Quays. In September 2015, Webb set out a digital plan for BBC Children's which included i-play, finally launched as BBC i-player kids on 12 April 2016. In November 2016, she appeared before the House of Lord's Communications Select Committee who questioned her about a CBBC programme entitled ''Just A Girl'' which explored transgender issues. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kay Benbow
Kay Benbow (born 1961) is a British broadcasting executive, and was the Controller of the BBC channel CBeebies from 2010 - 2017. Early life Kay Benbow was born in Sheffield. She studied Theology at St Hugh's College, Oxford, gaining her degree in 1980. She joined the BBC in 1984. BBC Children's Kay Benbow began working for BBC Children's in 1988. She moved to CBeebies in 2002. CBeebies launched in February 2002. During this time she also spent two years outside the BBC at Tell-Tale Productions until 2000. She became the second Controller of CBeebies in May 2010. In October 2014 Benbow became Acting Director of BBC Children's following the resignation of Joe Godwin, until the appointment of Alice Webb in February 2015. Under her control, CBeebies has won the BAFTA Children's Award for Channel of the Year in 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2016. In January 2017, she was awarded an honorary degree from Sheffield University in recognition of her achievements in the industry and her commitment t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Deverell
Richard George Deverell (born 1965) became Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in September 2012. He was previously Controller of CBBC, the department within the BBC responsible for output aimed at children. Early life Deverell was born in 1965. He graduated in biological sciences from Cambridge University. Career history After graduation, Deverell worked for several years in management consultancy before joining the BBC, where he was Head of Strategy and Marketing and on the Board of BBC News, as Head of News Interactive. BBC Children's In 2005 he was appointed the Chief Operating Officer of CBBC, the then name for the BBC Children's department, as Alison Sharman's deputy. A year later, in 2006, when Sharman left after just five months in the post, he was appointed into her role as Controller, CBBC. As someone who had come from a management, rather than a programming background, after taking up his post, Deverell created two new Creative Directors of the CB ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alison Sharman
Alison Sharman (born in Manchester) is an Executive and Teams Coach and was formally a Television Executive, working her way from junior grades to hold posts including Controller of BBC Daytime and Controller of BBC Children's. Career History She began her broadcasting career as a production secretary on the BBC consumer television programme ''Watchdog'' and, after a variety of assignments on various features output including series producer on the flagship BBC1 ''Holiday'' programme, she became Editor of Development, BBC Daytime. BBC Daytime In 2002 Sharman became the Controller of BBC Daytime, managing the output of BBC1 and BBC2 across the day. She commissioned programmes including ''MasterChef'', ''Bargain Hunt'', ''Homes Under the Hammer'', ''Eggheads'', ''Saturday Kitchen'', '' Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two'' and ''The Weakest Link''. BBC Children's In 2005 she was appointed Controller, CBBC, the then name for the BBC Children's department. She launched her s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigel Pickard
Nigel Pickard is a British television executive who oversaw the creation and launch of, amongst others, the BBC's children's channels, CBBC and CBeebies and as director of programmes at ITV, was responsible for commissioning some of the UK's most popular shows. He also worked for Zodiak Media, one of the largest independent producers in the world and is currently a Director of Nevision. Career Nigel started in career in the early 1970s, as a film editor and then as a Floor Manager, working on Thames Television's ''Armchair Thriller'' and the children's series '' Worzel Gummidge'' for Southern Television. In 1981 he was made a director and worked on '' How'' and ''Runaround''. In 1982 Pickard became a senior programme director of the children’s department at the newly formed TVS, where his work included No73 and ''Art Attack''. In 1986, Nigel was appointed ''Controller of Children’s and Family''. When TVS lost its ITV contract, he moved to Scottish TV to be controller of ente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorraine Heggessey
Lorraine Sylvia Heggessey (born 16 November 1956) is a British television producer and executive. From 2000 until 2005, she was the first woman to be Controller of BBC One, the primary television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation. She has also served as the Chief Executive of the production company Talkback Thames. Until October 2019 Heggessey was the Chief Executive of The Royal Foundation. Early life, education and career Heggessey was educated at Vyners Grammar School in Ickenham, Hillingdon and later earned an Upper Second Class BA Honours degree in English Language & Literature from Durham University ( Collingwood College), before beginning her career in local newspaper journalism. She worked initially for the Westminster Press Group, where her first job was as a trainee reporter on the ''Acton Gazette'' local newspaper. In 1978 she applied for a BBC News traineeship, but was rejected without an interview. She then worked voluntarily in hospital radio an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Home
Anna Margaret Home ( ; born 13 January 1938) is an English television producer and executive who worked for most of her career at the BBC. Early career After graduating from Oxford University, where she read Modern History at St Anne's College from 1956, Home joined the BBC in 1960. Initially working as a studio manager in BBC Radio, Home joined BBC Television in 1964 as a researcher for '' Play School''. "At the time it was quite an achievement or a womanto get into university, not just the BBC", observed Home in 2013. With Joy Whitby and Molly Cox, Home developed ''Jackanory'', which began its long run in 1965. "At first people were unwilling to participate in this unknown programme", Home recalled in 1997. "But when actors realised it was the opportunity to have 15 minutes' solo experience on television, they began to queue up to get on it, and having done a ''Jackanory'' became a bit like having done your ''Desert Island Discs''." Comedy actor Kenneth Williams, one of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Barnes (television Executive)
Edward Campbell Barnes (8 October 1928 – 8 September 2021) was a British television executive, and producer at the BBC. He was credited with creating the children's television programme ''Newsround''. Biography Barnes was a co-creator of ''Blue Peter'' in 1958, and the programme's assistant director. Later, he was a producer of the series. It was Barnes, with colleague Biddy Baxter, who in late 1962 toured London pet shops after the show's mongrel puppy died and a clandestine substitute (soon known as Petra) was needed so as not to needlessly upset young viewers. Barnes was the originator of the longstanding children's television news programme ''Newsround ''Newsround'' (stylised as ''newsround'', and originally called ''John Craven's Newsround'' before his departure in 1989) is a BBC children's news programme, which has run continuously since 4 April 1972. It was one of the world's first tele ...'', in April 1972; originally, it was known as ''John Craven's Newsround' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Sims
Monica Louie Sims (27 October 1925 – 20 November 2018) was a British BBC Radio producer who became Head of Children's Programmes, BBC Television then Controller of BBC Radio 4. She was also a Vice-President of the British Board of Film Classification, and Director of the Children's Film Foundation.Mini biography BBC career She spent three seasons working in theatres in Windsor and Bristol before joining BBC Radio as a Talks Producer, where she rose to become Editor of '''', a position she held until 1967.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
