You can't hide your pryin' eyes

Dave Hill's piece in The Guardian, on the BBC deciding against moving Eastenders east to the Olympic Park post 2012, suggests some internal defiance of the writ of Mark Thompson.

He's found an insider to the negotiations (though not, apparently, from the BBC side) to say "This had been going on for the best part of a year. They were happy with the financing. Mark Thompson really wanted it to happen. There were architect's drawings, everything. City Airport had even agreed to divert flights because they were worried about noise when they were filming scenes outside."

Hill's sources say the stumbling block was a wall. I understand it was a drama requirement for an unfeasibly high wall, of Great Chinese proportions, to keep the filming away from the eyes of occupants of tall buildings on the site.

This doesn't seem to be a problem for Coronation Street in their move to MediaCityUK.  Their new home is directly overlooked by not one, but two BBC buildings and a giant block of flats, just across the Ship Canal. That Adam Crozier gets things done, Lord Patten.