Jane Tranter

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Job: Controller of fiction, BBC
Age: 45
Industry: Broadcasting
Annual programming budget: £440m
Staff: 65

Jane Tranter failed her 11+ and went to a top university. She was a BBC secretary who rose to take charge of all of its drama's.

She's come a long way after working as an assistant floor manager on EastEnders and Bergerac, and this is where her her television career began. After working as a script editor on Casualty, she joined Carlton - where she executive produced ill-fated soap London Bridge.

After working as assistant floor manager on EastEnders and Bergerac. She is now a English Television executive and Head of Fiction at BBC television and also responsible for drama, comedy, film and any acquisitions that are made across the corporation's television output.


She is also known as the second most important person in the BBC,

Shakespeare
Rome
Jane Eyre
Life on Mars
Bleak House
Hotel Babylon
Robin Hood
Doctor Who
Bodies
Torchwood
Blackpool
Casanova
Spooks
EastEnders
Casualty
Bergerac
Wilderness
Bramwell
London Bridge
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