Friday, March 26, 2021

Temple of Arts, Music, and, er, Factual

BBC Content Boss Charlotte Moore has blessed BBC Arts and Music with a new, incomprehensible structure that doesn't mention Alan Yentob.  

Patrick Holland, body double for Harry Hill, zooming in from Brighton, gets a longer title - Director of  Factual, Arts and Classical Music. (The news release stresses he's been a luvvie all the time, despite the hard nut nature of Factual). Below him will be a new Head Of Arts And Classical Music and "a dedicated TV commissioner responsible for the BBC Proms and classical music on TV" who will be told to play nicely with Alan Davey Controller Radio 3, and perhaps even acknowledge David Pickard, Proms Director. 

In Pop Music, Lorna Clarke, Controller Pop Music gets a Commissioning Editor, a Commissioning Executive and an Assistant Commissioner to look after tv.

This seems to bust apart the role of Jan Younghusband and her two colleagues, up to now responsible for commissioning all forms of music on tv. 

  • It's possible that Ms Moore's very extensive answers to the Commons Public Accounts Committee on Monday were not evidence of a tendency to drone on, but a deliberate strategy to soak up time. Possible.  

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