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That the programme commissioner, the scheduler, the controller has less of a vital job and that the responsibility for coming up with good stuff is back with us.
He said every programme commissioner in the BBC should "pop a cork" because they would now be able to choose whatever programmes they want, regardless of whether they were made in-house at the BBC or elsewhere.
Gwawr Martha Lloyd, S4C programme commissioner, said: "The detective drama is a popular genre internationally and this thrilling, inventive and chilling series which appeal to viewers in Wales and foreign audiences.
We need more resources for this programme, Commissioner, because we consider it to be extremely important.
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Channel 4 is experiencing an exodus of programme commissioners.
It suited the BBC's UK programme commissioners but as a result BBC Enterprises made very modest profits indeed.
It included a pledge that in his first six months he will spend half his time each day working with programme commissioners.
The move comes ahead of the arrival of new Channel 4 chief executive David Abraham, who addressed staff for the first time yesterday with a pledge to work with programme commissioners, and who pipped Lygo to take over from Andy Duncan.
Way the most obvious was that although Gwyneth Williams cannot herself be expected to join Van Klaveren in our purer air up here, at least one of her London-chained programme commissioners certainly ought to do so asap.
Another thing bothering programme commissioners is that after the one-to-one informal meeting they've had with him, several report there have been no follow up requests for DVDs of past series.
Independent producers (declaration of interest: I run a small independent production company) have long argued that BBC programme commissioners – and by implication licence payers – were being shortchanged creatively and in terms of efficiency by the in-house quota.
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