BBC Studios

BBC Studios
Public subsidiary
Industry Television production
Founded April 2016
Headquarters London, England
Area served
 United Kingdom
Website https://www.bbcstudios.com/

BBC Studios is the BBC's commercial production arm. It produces many of the highest-rated shows on British television, including Strictly Come Dancing, Doctor Who, EastEnders, Planet Earth II and Top Gear. BBC Studios was certified in February 2015 and was separated from BBC Television in April 2016. It launched as an independent operating company in April 2017.

BBC Studios brings together the majority of the former BBC Television division's in-house production departments; Comedy, Drama (both combined as Scripted in the new division), Entertainment, Music & Events, and Factual.[1] BBC News, Children's and Sport and Radio remain separate internal production divisions in the BBC (although BBC Radio Comedy is part of Studios). The rest of the former BBC Television division (channels and genre commissioning, BBC Sport, BBC Children's and Learning, BBC Three and BBC iPlayer) are now known as BBC Content.

BBC Studios is headed by Mark Linsey[2], who succeeded Peter Salmon in March 2016.[3] BBC Studios was formally split from BBC Television in April 2016, with the intention of it becoming a wholly owned commercial subsidiary in 2017.[4] In October 2016, it was announced that 300 staff would be made redundant - equivalent to 15% of the workforce.[5] The BBC Trust approved the creation of BBC Studios as a commercial subsidiary in December 2016.[6]

BBC Studios launched as a commercial business in April 2017, meaning it is able to produce programmes for other broadcasters as well as the BBC, supporting the BBC’s public service mission and generating financial returns for licence fee payers.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Gannagé-Stewart, Hannah (2016-01-07). "BBC Studios takes shape". Broadcast.
  2. ↑ "BBC Studios Management Team". www.bbcstudios.com. Retrieved 2017-07-21.
  3. ↑ "Mark Linsey is the new Director of BBC Studios". BBC Press Office. 2016-03-22.
  4. ↑ Conlan, Tara (2016-05-02). "BBC Studios: a win for talent or an own goal?". The Guardian.
  5. ↑ "BBC Studios culls 300 jobs". Retrieved 2016-12-28.
  6. ↑ Williams, Christopher (2016-12-20). "BBC Studios wins go-ahead for commercial production push". Daily Telegraph.
  7. ↑ "BBC Studios - About us". www.bbcstudios.com. Retrieved 2017-07-21.
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