Jana Bennett
Director, BBC Vision
Blog posts in total 6
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Watch a sneak preview of the BBC's Christmas shows
You will probably already have seen details of some of the great programmes we have coming up this Christmas across all of BBC television. This week we published our final schedules for Christmas and last night we gave a sneak preview of our festive highlights to the press, and I though it would...
How healthy are BBC One, Two and Four?
Today the BBC's governing body the BBC Trust has published its report on three of the BBC's television channels, BBC One, BBC Two and BBC Four. These reports are essentially health checks done every five years to ensure that the channels are delivering the kind of programmes that audiences ...
How we plan for Glastonbury, the World Cup and a summer of live events
This Friday sees the kick off of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. This month-long tournament is just one of a huge number of sporting and musical events to hit our screens across the BBC this summer. Continuing on the sporting side, we will also be showing, amongst others, The Open and Wom...
BBC's quality shines at the RTS Awards
One of the most memorable images of the week for me was the moment when Charlie Brooker stepped onto the stage to pick up the Royal Television Society award for best entertainment programme. BBC Four's Newswipe with Charlie Brooker was recognised above two estimable giants of the entertainm...
Women's lives at the heart of our collection of programmes
Starting on International Women's Day (Monday, 8 March) we're showing a very special and thoughtful collection of programmes on BBC TV with the different experiences of women at their heart. The author of that feminist classic, The Feminine Mystique died a few years ago. Betty Friedan's highl...
Welcome to the BBC Television blog
Welcome to our new blog, where we'll be covering all aspects of our 'Vision' output, so named because it includes the programmes you watch on our television channels, all our related online content and red button. I am the director of BBC Vision and though I'm pleased to have written this fir...
