http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=3001 Contemporary and classic British TV Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:09:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=3001&cpage=1#comment-211 Ian Jones Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:56:44 +0000 http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=3001#comment-211 No surprise here, but then who else was in the frame? Nobody of note, if you believe the Media Guardian (which is never the best source for stories on the BBC, but then I haven’t seen this story reported anywhere else). Which, really, is pathetic. Has there ever been such a poor pool of candidates for what is, as Will Wyatt once proclaimed, the best job in television? The cream of the crop should have been gasping for a shot at running BBC2. Instead it looks like Hadlow’s rivals were a couple of ‘knowledge commissioning editors’. Risible. Still, Hadlow will do a decent job. It means there’s yet another veteran of The Late Show in charge of the channel (there can’t be many left, surely?) And we’re back where we were in Greg Dyke’s time, with the three top telly jobs at the Beeb (MD plus controllers of 1 and 2) all occupied by women.

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