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I'm grateful to Broadcast (paywall) for their follow-up work on the vacancy for Director of BBC Studios. Applications officially closed Monday, but the tv trade mag has taken a punt at the runners and riders - and nearly all have a Beeb background.

They're pretty sure Peter Salmon, BBC Prince of the North and King of the Rest of England, is in play, as well as Lorraine Heggessey, who seems to be between jobs and watched a lot of Masterchef. Their other top name is Wayne Garvie, who is chief creative officer for Sony Pictures International - but doesn't seem to have had his emails exposed. His Twitter is still working...

This is what passes for a first class meal on #virgintrains M/cer to London...you should hang your heads in shame pic.twitter.com/It6szU8EBj

— Wayne Garvie (@garvie1) April 28, 2015

Broadcast also reveals that our old friend, Dom Loehnis of headhunters Egon Zehnder has been out and about with his feather duster, tickling up candidates for the job. Dom, of course, helped Lord Patten uncover George Entwistle, and counts David Cameron as a chum. Dave, of course, worked for Carlton TV, but this vacancy has come at a difficult time...