Our most enjoyable task was curating each term's movie programme – to be shown, on 35mm film, in the full-sized Bloomsbury theatre, albeit only as matinees on Wednesdays.
Doubtless management work-arounds are already being generated – a movie buff to do the film programme, an old hand for Radio 2 and so on – but there is a deeper problem here: what does the BBC have to offer by way of successful popular entertainment?
Many of today's torture porn films are being made on tiny budgets by little-known directors, but with the release of the new Tarantino/Rodriguez double-bill, Grindhouse - designed as a tribute to the ultra-violent B-movie programmes of old - the trend officially reaches the mainstream.
This includes using YouGov's panel to survey consumers and using YouGov Profiles data to help media teams plan their marketing campaigns by "mining" audiences around movies, programmes and actors.
Independent analysis of a programme where children with cancer make a movie about their radiation therapy experience.
It's a movie about movies.
