The career of BBC1’s departing controller has been marked by successes such as Call the Midwife – and the fact that he took on the Top Gear presenter
Danny Cohen is destined to be remembered as the man who got rid of Jeremy Clarkson. Once the youngest BBC1 controller of the contemporary 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 last two posts were as director of television overseeing a £1.5bn budget and the corporation’s troubleshooter in chief.
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Source: theguardian.com