Brilliant

So. More reinvention.

Ms Anne Bulford won't be replaced as BBC Deputy Director General when she leaves at the end of the financial year; Ken MacQuarrie, Director of Nations & Regions will be a sort-of-editorial deputy, and takes oversight of David Jordan in Editorial Policy.

Glyn Isherwood, who belatedly followed Anne Bulford from Channel 4, becomes Chief Financial Officer.

But, rather dramatically, Lord Hall is getting some nitty gritty to deal with - directors of Design & Engineering, Marketing & Audiences, HR, as well as Finance & Operations, will work to Tony, who is already buying books on Big Data, gamification, conversion paths, Human Capital Management solutions and Quick Books.

Mmm. A routine
with HR...

As Tone spends more time with his new bessies, Matthew, Kerris, Val and Glyn, a new Group Managing Director will handle the really dull stuff like strategy, policy, legal, commercial, rights and business affairs.

Unless the Group MD emerges from within (perhaps from a post that can be closed), we have to watch whether his or her package, added to extra wodges for Messrs McQuarrie and Isherwood, comes to more than Ms Bulford's £453k p.a.