Well documented

It's always interesting to see an interim appointment at the BBC - sometimes the temp gets the full-time gig (George Entwistle, first acting and then appointed Director of BBC Vision) and sometimes not (Roger Mosey, acting and, from May 7, standing down as Director of BBC Vision to a post as yet unspecified).

Charlotte Moore has been elevated to interim Controller of BBC1, from interim Controller of BBC Daytime (where she has been minding the shop between the stuttering departure of Liam Keelan in February, and the re-arrival of Damian Kavanagh, back from Channel 4). Her speciality, however, is making and commissioning documentaries.

Charlotte has a history degree from Bristol University, and is in her mid-forties. In her potted BBC biog, it says she began her tv career "travelling to remote corners of the world to make films about cannibals, disappearing tribes and stolen art". Elsewhere she explained "I speak Indonesian and met tribes who said they'd eaten human beings". I can't track down any online credits until she appears as producer/director of a six part series about Lagos Airport, put out by Channel 4 in 1999, under the executive eyes of Jeremy Mills. Then, with Emma Hindley as fellow producer/director, there came another six-parter, a year in the making, Living With Cancer, winning a BAFTA in 2002, and a bio-pic of Winston Churchill, presented by Mo Mowlam.

Charlotte then moved to Scottish indie ICW, where she was responsible for Stephen Fry's Secret Life of The Manic Depressive, and the lesser-known Studs From Suburbia for Channel 4, before returning to the BBC as a commissioner in 2006.

"Documentary" now is a broad term, and apparently includes "The Constructed Documentary"; under this banner, Charlotte has brought us various Choirs, with Gareth Malone, and three series of The Great British Bake-Off. (I'm surprised they don't try to class The Voice as a doco...). Other unsung items she has lighted upon include "Baby-faced Bodybuilders" for BBC3.  Programmes co-commissioned with Danny Cohen include Britain's Biggest Hoarders, Meet The Izzards. For BBC2, she did a series on Midwives - which never hurted anyone with ambition to improve....

Watch Charlotte at work here.