Odds and ends

• BBC-developed chef Tom Kerridge has got a show on ITV. The BBC have stood by him thick and thin, but everyone seem relaxed these days about cross-channel traffic - Holly Willoughby, Gary Lineker, Zoe Ball are among the big names who are now seen on both channels. The Daily Mirror has characterised this as 'presenter wars'. More likely there's accountants involved, with no-one confident about IR35 rules. The stars want to demonstrate that they are freelance, and the commissioners are helping. 
• Wimbledon has unnecessarily added eighties disco music to the inter-match results round-ups. 
• Evidence of summer: there was no news programme in the Top Ten tv shows for the week ending 18th June.  The BBC 6 O'clock News came in at No 15, on 3.3m. 
• The BBC wants a Senior Journalist, Digital News - Curation, to write a daily newsletter. They haven't yet approached me. 
• Saxton Bampfylde are still the preferred headhunters for the DCMS/BBC - asked again to find a new Chairman. Until 2018, Cynthia Hall (Lady), wife of Tony, worked there helping find top teachers. SB worked with Sarah Healey, previous top civil servant at the DCMS, on a civil service mentoring programme.