Making plans

The second set of minutes from the new BBC Board are out - they go back to May. At six pages, they're quite full compared with the last days of Executive "summary" minutes.

There's quite a lot going on, and, on occasions, it seems the new non-executives are actually probing. They quiz James Harding about the case brought by Sir Cliff Richard; they discuss the business model for BBC Studios and note that "further discussion around plans for the BBC’s commercial services would return later in the summer. "

And they discuss the draft Annual Plan. "Directors requested more detail around the proposed performance measurement framework, around the strategic challenges to public service broadcasting and in the proposals for distinctiveness by genre and service. The Annual Plan would return to the June Board meeting for approval." And when will we finally see it ?