DG2020 - 7

Ms Jay Hunt has been appointed as a Governor of the British Film Institute.  The news has been announced on gov.uk, but I suspect they let Ms Hunt, never knowingly undersold, write her own bio, probably precised lovingly from her application to be the next DG.....

Jay Hunt is Apple TV + Creative Director for Europe. She is the only person to have led BBC One, Channel 5 and Channel 4.

Hunt started her career at BBC News working on Newsnight and Panorama before becoming editor of both the One O’clock and Six O’clock News. She was Controller of BBC Daytime and Director of Programmes at Channel 5, before returning to the BBC in 2008 to run BBC One. Her commissions there included Sherlock, Luther and Mrs Brown’s Boys.

In 2011 she was made the first Chief Creative Officer of Channel 4. Over the next 7 years, she led what was described as a “creative renaissance” delivering global hits from Gogglebox to Humans, Catastrophe to Hunted, First Dates to Derry Girls.