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BBC Chief Content Officer Kate Phillips has introduced changes to the division\u2019s senior leadership team with Fiona Campbell appointed Director of Factual and Ed Havard appointed Director of Entertainment.<\/p>\n
The Director of Entertainment will oversee and support Entertainment, Daytime, Factual Entertainment and Events and the Director of Factual will oversee and support Arts and Classical Music TV, Documentaries and Specialist Factual.<\/p>\n
The new roles will begin in the Spring. In the meantime, Campbell will continue as the Interim Director of Unscripted and Michael Jochnowitz as the Editor of Unscripted.<\/p>\n
Havard was previously at NBCUniversal and, before that, Channel 4 and the BBC.<\/p>\n
When the pair start their new roles, the Director and Editor of Unscripted roles will both close.<\/p>\n
Kate Phillips says: \u201cFiona\u2019s extensive experience across Unscripted, BBC iPlayer, BBC Three, Youth audiences and News & Current Affairs makes her uniquely placed to lead BBC Factual into the future.\u00a0 She is an outstanding leader and creative powerhouse with a wealth of broadcasting and digital experience. Fiona has a proven track record of innovation, creativity and an ability to reach young and underserved audiences. She\u2019s committed to the strength of our specialisms and ensuring that we\u2019re in the best possible shape to continue to deliver high quality, distinctive factual content for everyone across the UK.\u00a0 Fiona will continue to be based in Northern Ireland as she takes on this new senior role.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fiona Campbell says:\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s a huge privilege to join the BBC Factual team as Director. Together with independent suppliers, the commissioning teams across the UK are delivering world class content to audiences, entertaining and inspiring on a daily basis.\u00a0 I really look forward to what everyone can achieve, how we will innovate further and the impact the content will have on audiences in the UK and beyond in next few years.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kate Phillips says: \u201cEd brings to the BBC a wealth of invaluable experience.\u00a0 At Channel Four as Head of Entertainment and TV Events he was responsible for a huge variety of shows including The Last Leg, Celebrity Gogglebox, and the BAFTA-award winning Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan.\u00a0 More recently at NBCUniversal as Senior Vice President he has worked with multiple indies and broadcast partners, including the BBC where he led the deal for groundbreaking co-commissions for The Traitors and Destination X. In a former life Ed also worked for the BBC in senior roles across news, factual, events and entertainment.\u00a0 With his vast experience of public service broadcasting, commercial deals, digital strategy and the international market, he is uniquely placed to continue to strengthen the impact of BBC Entertainment for audiences across the UK.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Ed Havard says: \u201cThe past seven years at NBCUniversal have been a genuine joy, working with some of the most talented and generous teams in global television. I will miss them hugely, but the opportunity to return to the BBC and work alongside Kate Phillips is impossible to resist. The BBC\u2019s Entertainment slate across studio, reality, events, formats and lifestyle is one of the most ambitious and prolific in the world, and I can\u2019t wait to start working with the world class entertainment teams across the UK to build on that legacy.\u201d<\/p>\n Share this story<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.televisual.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 BBC Chief Content Officer Kate Phillips has introduced changes to the division\u2019s senior leadership team with Fiona Campbell appointed Director of Factual and Ed Havard appointed Director of Entertainment. The Director of Entertainment will oversee and support Entertainment, Daytime, Factual Entertainment and Events and the Director of Factual will oversee and support Arts and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2288954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2288953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/BBC-sets-new-Directors-of-Entertainment-Factual.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2288953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2288955,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288953\/revisions\/2288955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2288954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2288953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2288953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2288953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Jon Creamer<\/a><\/h3>\n
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