The Mirror claimed the 49-year-old grew frustrated after BBC2 controller Kim Shillinglaw - who recently left the show - was reluctant to give him the same creative control as ex-host Jeremy Clarkson.
"Doing hockey" was thus achieved through a unique assemblage of heterogeneous elements: a place that allowed Andrew and Charlie to position themselves, the creative use of the controller, and the bodily improvisations between the two.
"With a dedicated season of programming on the BBC, 5,000 digital trainees, one million children who take their first steps with a Micro Bit, and a host of educational activity, we hope to inspire a new generation to get creative with digital," said Jessica Cecil, controller of Make it Digital.
According to Booth, the film's true controller is the creative energy "that hundreds of people put into its production, agreeing and disagreeing, inserting and cutting".
It was a change that had to happen but the focus on channel performance – and the professionalisation of commissioning and scheduling that came with it – had the effect over time of concentrating all creative decision-making with channel controllers and their teams.
One of Britain's best-known independent producers Alex Graham, whose Wall To Wall company made Who Do You Think You Are? for Root at BBC2, agreed that a lack of confidence among controllers was inhibiting a creative culture.
The likes of former Deputy Director-General Mark Byford, former Director of Vision Jana Bennett, creative chief Alan Yentob and the smooth former Controller of BBC1 Peter Fincham all once seemed closer to the throne.
"Tony Hall, the Director-General, said that in 2015 he wanted to get a new generation to get creative with coding," Jessica Cecil, the BBC's controller for Make it Digital, told The Guardian.
One of the most respected creative leaders in the business, Fincham was controller of BBC1 for two years until he was forced out in the wake of the "Crowngate" scandal.
