Controller behind Chris Evans’s Top Gear revamp quits BBC
January 21, 2016 by admin
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The programme’s executive producer, Lisa Clark, quit in December, after barely five months in the job, and there has been an increasing volume of tabloid speculation that Evans is not adapting well to his new brief, including photographs published over the weekend that appeared to show him becoming unwell after travelling around a track at speed.
Miss Shillinglaw, who earns an annual salary of £227,800 at the corporation, said today: “I wish the BBC, Mark [Linsey] and Charlotte every success with the many changes BBC TV needs to make.
“I’ve loved modernising BBC Two and Four over the last two years but when you don’t get the big job it’s time to move on. And I’m looking forward to another big challenge.”
As well as Miss Shillinglaw being tasked with the relaunch after Jeremy Clarkson left Top Gear, BBC Two also recently announced that Robot Wars would be returning after a 13-year absence.
And speaking at a Bafta event in April last year, she was quoted by the Guardian as saying that BBC Two needed “fresh ideas and renewal right across the landscape” of the schedule.
Chris Evans driving a classic Aston Martin covetable DB5 car Photo: Rex
Last August, Miss Shillinglaw said she was “really excited” about the next series of the hit motoring show with Evans as host – which she added would be “really different”.
Speaking in front of an audience at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, the mother-of-two from West London also said that Clarkson’s controversial departure from Top Gear was “very, very sad”.
When asked about the new series with Evans at the helm, Miss Shillinglaw said she was “so excited and of course terrified”, adding: “You don’t quite know what’s going to happen next.”
Meanwhile Mrs Moore, who currently earns £268,800 as the head of BBC One, will become the new controller of TV channels and iPlayer – a newly created role that is part of a wider reorganisation across the corporation.
The role will see Mrs Moore – who brought Mary Berry’s Bake Off to BBC One – take the creative, editorial and strategic lead for BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Four and BBC iPlayer.
She said: “I’m honoured to lead the BBC’s channel portfolio into the future at such a significant time. The creative opportunities this new approach brings will ensure the BBC keeps pace with our rapidly changing media industry.
“It is more important than ever for audiences and programme makers that we have a clearly defined sense of purpose for each channel to ensure we deliver even higher quality and more distinctive content.”
She will now effectively be responsible about £1billion of licence fee money decision-making, according to the Guardian. Mrs Moore will report to the acting director of television, Mark Linsey and will start her new remit on January 25.
Mr Linsey said the role would ‘allow her to take a view across channels to drive distinctiveness, quality and risk-taking even further, whilst offering a single point of contact for programme makers and ensuring audiences get the best programmes, however and wherever they choose to watch’.
During one of her earlier roles as the BBC’s commissioning editor of documentaries, she was behind successful documentaries such as Terry Prachett’s Choosing To Die – which dealt with assisted suicide.
The BBC said the reorganisation ‘follows other recent moves to simplify structures at the BBC’, such as the appointment of Matthew Postgate as chief technology officer, whose remit will bring together the roles of BBC Digital, Engineering and BBC Worldwide.
