Charlotte Moore (TV executive)

Charlotte Moore (born June 1968)^[1] is the Controller of BBC One. Her appointment was announced by Tony Hall, the BBC's Director General on 26 June 2013.^[2]

Earlier career

A graduate of Bristol University,^[3] she joined Ideal World as a producer-director of documentaries ^[4] in 2002.^[5] As a freelance director/producer her credits included "Lagos Airport", RTS award winning Living With Cancer and Great Britons: Churchill, .^[6] She was appointed head of documentaries for Muriel Gray's Ideal World company in February 2004,^[6] and then head of contemporary factual at IWC Media, as it became after its merger with Wark Clements, in 2005.^[7] Moore has been a trustee since 2005 of the Grierson Trust,^[1] of which she is a Vice-Chair.^[8]

Moore became a commissioning executive for documentaries at the BBC in 2006, responsible for the Emmy award winning Stephen Fry's Secret Life of the Manic Depressive and Bafta award winning Evicted.^[9] After a period as temporary charge, she formally became the commissioning editor of Documentaries in May 2009,^[10] responsible for 220 hours of programming per annum across the BBC's four television channels^[11] with an annual budget of £30 million by 2011.^[12] In this role she gave the go ahead for BBC2's Welcome to Lagos, Protecting Our Children, a programme on assisted suicide, Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die , 7/7 One Day in London, Inside Claridges and The Great British Bake Off among others.^[13] Rivals at Channel 4 suggested Moore's preference for authored documentaries might give her output an "old fashioned" air, a criticism she rejected in June 2011.^[12] She rejected that channel's fondness for 'fixed rig' programmes, like One Born Every Minute and Coppers which, Moore has said, appear to repeat the same narrative in each episode: "Where are the layers and complexity? It is difficult for them to be inventive and risky."^[12]

Controller

In February 2013 she was appointed acting controller of Daytime Television for the BBC,^[14] and had been acting controller of BBC One since Danny Cohen's promotion to Director of BBC Television on 7 May.^[15] She became controller of BBC One in June 2013.^[16]

Media commentator Maggie Brown wrote at the time Moore became BBC One controller that "her appointment signals a rising appreciation of collaborative team players with an eye on the greater good of the BBC".^[3] She is married to another television programme maker, with whom she has two children.^[3]

References

External links

• Charlotte Moore at the Internet Movie Database