"This will truly be a flagship corporation, which will compete with the best in the world," Mr. George said.
Given the enormous popularity of the Doctor Who franchise, the series is likely to be a flagship the corporation will hope to use to validate its decision to move BBC3 online.
The BBC Trust said the failure by the Newsnight team "resulted largely from a failure to adhere to editorial guidelines", and that it was "extremely concerning" that it occurred at a "flagship" of the corporation's programming.
Major pieces such as the Iraq drama Occupation and the Caribbean immigration story Small Island (based on Andrea Levy's book) have been claimed by the corporation's flagship channel.
Hall also outlined his vision for the corporation's flagship TV channels, with increased investment in drama and entertainment programming for BBC1.
Whittingdale also said he wanted the corporation's flagship services, such as BBC1 and Radio 1 and 2, to be "more distinctive and ambitious".
The BBC licence fee and the corporation's flagship channel BBC1 should be scrapped, according to a report from a rightwing thinktank.
It is one of four new appointments, including BBC news editor Gavin Allen, who becomes controller of daily news programmes, running the teams behind all of the corporation's flagship news programmes on TV and radio.
Newsnight, the corporation's flagship current affairs programme, is under fire for broadcasting a report on 2 November that led to the former Tory politician Lord McAlpine being implicated in the sex abuse scandal at the Bryn Estyn care home.
The lawsuit was filed in Federal Bankruptcy Court in Santa Ana, Calif., by the San Francisco law firm of Jenkins & Mulligan, one of several firms representing homeowners who had received home-equity loans from the First Alliance Mortgage Company, the corporation's flagship unit.
