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There's nothing quite as festive as some fasted-footed crashing together of managements. And the winners in the BBC Worldwide/BBC Studios squeeze have been announced.

Tom Fussell (Westminster and Bristol University), currently CFO of BBC Worldwide, will take on the role of CFO for the new BBC Studios. (Dr) Anna Mallett (Durham, Oxford and Harvard), currently COO for BBC Studios, will be the COO for the new BBC Studios. Alongside this new role, Anna will also hold the position of Managing Director for Production.

Martyn Freeman, currently General Counsel for BBC Worldwide, will take on this role for the wider group, which Studios never knew they needed. Jabbar Sardar, HR Director at BBC Studios wins the role for the new merged BBC Worldwide/Studios. All four get to sit on Tim Davie's new executive committee from April next year.

BBC Worldwide dispensed with the title COO on the departure of David Gibbons in September last year - could they have planned all this ?

• Elsewhere on the jobs front, Crown Prince of Fair Selection amd Slayer of Unconscious Bias, James Purnell, has announced that the Religious Affairs Correspondent will be re-named Religion Editor. Many union members are hoping that there will be a process, rather than the simple elevation of current post-holder Martin Bashir.