The fruitful career of BBC1’s youngest controller has been marked by successes of shows such as Call the Midwife – and the fact that he took on Clarkson
Danny Cohen is destined to be remembered as the man who got rid of Jeremy Clarkson. Once the youngest BBC1 controller of the modern era,so seamless was Cohen’s rise up the broadcasting ranks that he was earmarked as the next director general. But now he is following Clarkson out of the door, calling time on his own BBC career this week after eight years. His final two posts were as director of television overseeing a 1.5bn budget and the corporation’s troubleshooter in chief. Related: BBC TV chief Danny Cohen to leave corporation There was the sense that he was a political animal, and a lustrous guy who would clamber over people on the way upContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com