Studio manager

The BBC's Strategy supremo, John Tate, has turned to Strategy colleague, Dr Anna Mallett, to be the new boss of BBC Studios and Post-Production. John gets £180k a year for the day job, and an additional £80k a year for chairing SPP. Anna Mallett is currently on a package of £127k as Controller Business Strategy - she also doubled as strategist for Future Media & Technology, until the arrival of Kieran Clifton from Channel 5.

Anna has a first in Geography from Durham, a Ph.D in social sciences from Oxford, and an MBA from Harvard; her previous employers were the Boston Consulting Group. She'll need to demonstrate strategic flair as the BBC works out if there's a financial case for keeping studios going at Television Centre, with the rest of the business moving out.

• Meanwhile as BBC network tv production at Birmingham hesitantly prepares suitcases for the move to Bristol (a planned strike today was called off as management and BECTU continue talks), there seems to be quite a lot of churn at the Whiteladies Road campus. Andrew Jackson (Head of the Natural History Unit since 2009 - current package £155k) is leaving, as is Ben Gale, who has managed to run "Bristol Factual" for three years without moving from London (current package £155k; £1,750 in rail, taxi and hotel bills in the last published quarter, plus at bottle of water at £1.49).