Commissioner Moves

In: Kate Phillips, Controller, Entertainment Commissioning, BBC

Kate will be responsible for overseeing entertainment commissioning across all BBC Television channels, BBC iPlayer and BBC Three, maintaining the success of current shows as well as finding future hits.

In her role at BBC Worldwide, Kate has responsibility for an extensive formats catalogue of more than 200 titles, including popular entertainment formats such as Top Gear, Strictly Come Dancing, The Great British Bake Off and The Great British Sewing Bee.

Prior to joining BBC Worldwide, Kate worked as the Channel Executive for BBC One and BBC Three, working closely with the Controllers to oversee all editorial content on both channels, managing early development of commissions, liaising with scheduling, budgeting, marketing, press and social media planning and strategy.

Kate’s extensive TV production experience was garnered through producing numerous factual, comedy and entertainment shows for many broadcasters, as well as being a co-owner and Director of Mast Media, an award-winning television formats company which developed multiple shows airing on the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and across the globe.

From here, Kate turned her attention to development, joining the BBC as Head of Development for BBC Children’s, and overseeing the development of multiple BAFTA-winning shows for CBBC and CBeebies. She consequently became Head of Development at BBC Entertainment, increasing production turnover significantly and helping to win multiple commissions for the department. Kate also created and ran the successful BBC training scheme Future Formats and resided as the BBC Formats Representative on the European Broadcast Union. In this role, she helped devise and establish the annual Creative Formats Forum in Berlin.

Source: BBC press release