Heggessey and Jane Tranter commissioned a new version of the series in September 2003, after Heggessey had spent two years persuading the BBC's commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, to abandon their attempts to make a feature film version of the programme and allow it instead to return to BBC One.

In September Lorraine Heggessey, the Controller of BBC One, managed to persuade BBC Worldwide that as their plans for a Doctor Who film were nowhere near fruition, BBC television should be allowed to make a new series.

The incoming Controller of BBC One, Lorraine Heggessey, defended the move, claiming that the programme's audience would have " dwindled " had it remained on Monday nights.

In 2002, Heggessey took the decision to abandon the traditional " Globe " idents the channel had used in a variety of forms for its between-programme idents since 1963.

The CEO of talkbackThames was Sara Geater, who took up the post in October 2010, replacing Lorraine Heggessey, who had been CEO of talkbackTHAMES from 2005 to 2010.

When Heggessey arrived at the channel in November 2000, she inherited two controversial schedule changes which had been implemented the previous month, at the behest of Director-General of the BBC Greg Dyke ; the main evening BBC News bulletin had been moved from 9pm to 10pm, and Panorama moved from a Monday night prime time slot to a later slot on Sunday nights.

Parkinson said that he was sad to be leaving the BBC but that he and the channel controller, Lorraine Heggessey, could not agree on a suitable slot for his show following the return of Premiership football highlights to the BBC One Saturday evening schedule.

Heggessey publicly defended the decision despite it not being hers, claiming that Panoramas ratings would have " dwindled " in its previous slot.

On 14 February 2005 it was announced that Lorraine Heggessey was to leave the BBC to take up the post of Chief Executive at production company Talkback Thames.

Heggessey passed on the format, opting to commission a similar panel game called Class War ( which was never made ).

The new version of Doctor Who ( 2005 – present ) debuted on 26 March 2005 and became a critical and popular hit, with Paul Hoggart of The Times newspaper describing the series as " a joyful, exuberant reinvention and a fine legacy from Ms Heggessey.

In 2002, the new controller of BBC One, Lorraine Heggessey, deemed the package which had been in place since 1997 too " slow and distant ".

Five months after her departure, BBC One was named " Channel of the Year " at the Edinburgh Television Festival, primarily on the strength of Heggessey commissions such as Strictly Come Dancing and Doctor Who.

At Talkback Thames, Heggessey has been responsible for overseeing the production of high-profile programmes such as ITV1's The Bill and The X Factor, BBC One's QI and Channel 4's Green Wing .< ref name =" shows ">

This was a return to having a dedicated Controller for the channel in the same way as the rest of the BBC's domestic television channels.

Their performance at the award show impressed the BBC's Head of Light Entertainment Bill Cotton and Controller of BBC One Paul Fox, who were sitting in the audience.

The first American Letter was broadcast on 24 March 1946 ( Cooke said this was at the request of Lindsey Wellington, the BBC's New York Controller ); the series was initially commissioned for only 13 instalments.

" This good wish towards the head of a state Britain was at war with at the time led to the sacking of the BBC's Senior Controller of Programmes and tighter government control over all broadcasts.

" The following year the BBC's Controller of Programmes, Cecil McGivern — who had initially feared that viewers would not accept such an unusual name for the leading character — noted in reference to the impending launch of the rival ITV network that: " Had competitive television been in existence then, we would have killed it every Saturday night while Quatermass Experiment lasted.

Since leaving the show, McCutcheon has publicly slammed the BBC's " Controller of Continuing Drama Series ", Mal Young, who made the decision to kill her character.

He left Arena to become the BBC's Head of Music and Arts, a position he occupied until 1987, when he was promoted to Controller of BBC Two, one of the youngest channel controllers in the BBC's history.

In 1993 he was promoted to Controller of BBC One, responsible for the output of the BBC's premier channel.

In 1993, at the age of thirty-five, he became the second youngest Channel Controller in the BBC's history when he was promoted to succeed Yentob, who had been promoted to Controller of BBC One, as Controller of BBC Two.

Alasdair David Gordon Milne ( born 8 October 1930 ) is a former BBC producer who became Controller of BBC Scotland, the BBC's Director of Programmes and then Director-General of the BBC in July 1982.

Overall strategic responsibility for all of the BBC's services for children rests with the Director of Children's, Joe Godwin ( since late 2009 ), with commissioning decisions for the two channels being made by a Controller of each channel ; Daian Kavanagh ( since 2009 ) is Controller of CBBC, and Kay Benbow ( since 2010 ) is Controller of CBeebies.

As channel Controller, Hart was responsible for managing the direction, content and commissioning of programmes on the BBC's premier television station.

In 1954 Cecil McGivern, the Controller of Programmes at BBC Television, referred to the success of the serial in a memo discussing the impending launch of a new commercial television channel, ending the BBC's monopoly.

The report was prepared by staff members Alice Frick and Donald Bull, and delivered the following month, much to the commendation of Wilson, Maschwitz and the BBC's Assistant Controller of Programmes Donald Baverstock.

Tony Ageh is currently the BBC's Controller of Archive Development having previously been Controller, BBC Internet, bbc. co. uk.

Adam spent nine years in this role, before in 1950 the Director General of the BBC, William Haley, took the perhaps surprising decision to appoint him as the Controller of the BBC Light Programme, one of the BBC's most popular national radio stations.

McCutcheon publicly slammed the BBC's " Controller of Continuing Drama Series ", Mal Young, who was one of the executives who made the decision to kill her character.

During the Second World War he was called up and joined the RAF Police but was later invalided from service, whereupon he joined Entertainments National Service Association ( ENSA ) and then ( on 4 May 1942 ) the BBC's Drama and Repertory company in Manchester.

Unusually, it was produced by the BBC's in-house Entertainment department rather than the Drama department — this was because Renwick preferred working with people he knew rather than the people at Drama who might not share his vision.

In 1961 the BBC's Director of Television, Kenneth Adam, met with Newman and offered him the position of Head of Drama at the BBC.

This appointment was only a brief one, however, before a re-organisation of the BBC's Executive Committee led to the creation of a new post, filled by Yentob, of Director of Drama, Entertainment and Children's.

The BBC Drama Village is situated in Selly Oak, together with the Mill Health Centre where the BBC's daytime soap Doctors is filmed.

The series was conceived by Canadian expatriate Sydney Newman while he was the BBC's Head of Drama.

The serial was notable for being a high-profile production made not by the BBC's central drama department in London, but by the English Regions Drama department based at BBC Birmingham, although it was shot on location in Liverpool.

His initial career was in the theatre, where he worked as a director, before in 1976 he joined the BBC's English Regions Drama Department as a Script Editor under producer David Rose.

The BBC's Head of Television Drama, Michael Barry, had committed most of his original script budget for the year to employing Kneale.

It was his work on Quatermass that had prompted the BBC's Head of Drama, Michael Barry, to ask Cartier to work on an adaptation of the novel, having shown his abilities with literary sources in a version of Wuthering Heights, again with Kneale handling the scripting.

Certain other well known plays, including Penda's Fen ( 1974 ), Nuts in May ( 1976 ), were commissioned by David Rose of the BBC's English Regions Drama department based in Birmingham.

The series was suggested to the BBC's Head of Drama Sydney Newman, by the corporation's director of television Kenneth Adam after his cancellation of the two previous series of single plays.

As far back at 1962, the makers of Z-Cars had deliberately set their programme near Liverpool in the North of England to break away from the perceived London bias ( although, ironically, it was shot in the BBC's London studios ), and in 1971 an English Regions Drama Department had been established at BBC Birmingham headed by David Rose with a remit for making ' regional drama ', gaining a major success with Alan Bleasdale's Boys from the Blackstuff in 1982.

The BBC has established a strong reputation in the field of children's drama, although children's dramas are almost universally commissioned and / or produced by the BBC's Children's Department rather than the Drama Department itself.

Book at Bedtime is part of the BBC's Arts and Drama series.

The film was directed by Mick Jackson for the BBC's Horizon science series and won several prizes including the 1988 BAFTA TV Award as the Best Single Drama.

Harper also recruits writers through the BBC's Continuing Drama Shadow Scheme, open to writers from all levels of experience.

The plot has been described by former Executive Producer of EastEnders and BBC's Head of Drama Serials, John Yorke, as a " Tristan and Isolde story ".

She was in BBC's Radio Drama Company ( RDC ) in the mid-1980s and appeared in numerous Radio 4 plays and readings.