Please wait...
Please wait...

Klein, Warner head for ITV

BBC4 controller Richard Klein and the former head of Channel 4 daytime Helen Warner are moving to rival terrestrial broadcaster ITV.

Richard Klein

Richard Klein

Klein has been appointed director of factual while Warner will be the commercial broadcaster’s new director of daytime – both positions created following the departure of Alison Sharman as director of factual and daytime in February.

Since taking over as controller in 2008, Klein has overseen the growth of BBC4, finding success with imported Scandinavian dramas such as The Killing, Borgen and The Bridge.

Klein moved into television from print journalism when he joined the BBC in 1996, first as a current affairs producer and director and later a factual commissioning executive. He was promoted to commissioning editor for documentaries in 2005, head of independent commissioning for BBC Knowledge in early 2008 and then controller of factual-skewing BBC4 in December that year.

He will be joined in the senior factual commissioning team at ITV by Jo Clinton-Davis, who had taken on Sharman’s responsibilities on an interim basis and is now being promoted from controller of popular factual to the newly created position of factual controller.

Warner, a best-selling author, was previously Channel 4’s head of daytime for five years. While at C4 she commissioned Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals and Coach Trip as well as launching Come Dine With Me into the peaktime schedule. Prior to her stint at C4, Warner worked on the production side of ITV Daytime, editing This Morning and launching daytime talkshow Loose Women.

Both Warner and Klein will join ITV this summer, reporting to ITV’s director of television Peter Fincham.

RELATED ARTICLES

Please wait...