45-427: BBC Studios Productions Limited is a British content production company and is BBC Studios ' national production division, producing a wide range of programmes from things like Top Gear to Strictly Come Dancing . BBC Studios Productions is responsible for producing programmes while BBC Studios is in charge of ventures like UKTV and the distribution and selling of formats of BBC programmes. BBC Studios Productions
90-490: A Royal Opera House subsidiary, Opus Arte has relaunched its website as an online classical music retailer, selling both digital and physical products from across all the major record labels. Between 2010 and 2011, Hall's salary increased from £165,000 to £205,000, making him the highest-paid Chief Executive of all UK charities. His emoluments for management of the Royal Opera House exceeded £390,000 per annum in
135-557: A Top Gear episode in December 2022. In March 2024, BBC Studios had announced that they have acquired Melbourne-based Australian live-action production powerhouse company Werner Film Productions based and placed the acquired company under their Australian division BBC Studios Productions Australia expanding their operations in Australia. BBC Studios has built up a stake in a variety of different production companies. BBC Records
180-737: A careers advice and guidance website called "Creative Choices". He served as chair of the Music and Dance Scheme Advisory Board, and led a Dance Review for the Department for Education and Skills resulting in an additional £5 million input towards dance education. He was a member of the Management Committee of the Clore Leadership Programme until 2011. He sat on the Culture and Creative Advisory Forum panel for
225-520: A department devoted to supporting new artists and developing new audiences, following which he set up new initiatives to widen access to the Royal Opera House – including big screen relays to locations across the UK: Paul Hamlyn matinées and other low-price ticket schemes. In 2007, he oversaw the ROH's purchase of Opus Arte , a ballet and opera DVD/Blu-ray production and distribution company. As
270-622: A division of the BBC was completed in April 2016. In September 2016, the BBC announced that it would tender its non-news programmes over the next 11 years, beginning with programmes such as A Question of Sport , Holby City and Songs of Praise . In October 2016, the BBC announced that it planned to lay off 300 employees from the division seen as redundant. In December 2016, BBC Studios announced that it had reached an agreement with Producers Alliance for Cinema and Television (PACT) in regards to
315-586: A joint venture in 2016 and launched in 2017 in North America; the international service remains a joint venture of BBC Studios and ITV plc. A separately managed UK version of the service launched in 2019 but is now a fully owned subsidiary of ITV, after they announced in 2022 that they had bought out the BBC and its other partners with the intention of integrating the service with ITVX . Tony Hall, Baron Hall of Birkenhead Anthony William Hall, Baron Hall of Birkenhead , CBE (born 3 March 1951)
360-420: A long-term deal with WarnerMedia 's upcoming HBO Max for streaming rights to past seasons of top BBC programmes such as Doctor Who , The Honourable Woman , Luther , and Top Gear . In January 2020, it also sold second-window streaming rights to 14 series to CW Seed (a video on-demand platform operated by The CW , a television network co-owned by WarnerMedia). In February 2021, BBC Studios launched
405-493: A new streaming brand in North America known as BBC Select , dedicated to factual content. On 22 February 2021, BBC Studios signed a first-look deal with Gobstopper Group. In March 2021, it was announced that the BBC Children's Productions and BBC Global News units would also be transferred into BBC Studios. With the change, BBC Studios will handle international distribution and advertising sales for BBC World News , while
450-496: A proposal to split the BBC's in-house production units for non-news television programming into a separate BBC Studios division, which would eventually, with BBC Trust approval as part of the next revision to the BBC's charter, be spun-out as a for-profit subsidiary of the BBC. This proposal would allow the BBC's units to produce programmes for other broadcasters and digital outlets (which could be done in conjunction with its international distribution arm BBC Worldwide ) in addition to
495-653: Is a British life peer . He was Director-General of the BBC between April 2013 and August 2020, and chaired the board of trustees of the National Gallery from September 2020 to May 2021. Hall was Director of News at the BBC between 1993 and 2001, and Chief Executive of the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden , London from 2001 until March 2013. He was made a life peer and took his seat in
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#1732776783538540-485: Is headed by James Payne and is overseen by Entertainment and Music Managing Director Suzy Lamb. BBC Studios Entertainment Productions produces titles such as Children in Need and Strictly Come Dancing . BBC Studios Entertainment Productions is headed by Mel Balac and is overseen by Entertainment and Music Managing Director Suzy Lamb. The BBC Studios Events Productions unit focuses primarily on events of significance across
585-613: Is headed up by Andrew Cohen and is overseen by the Factual Managing Director Tom McDonald. BBC Studios Factual Entertainment Productions is responsible for delivering entertaining and enriching programmes. The Factual Entertainment productions is headed by Naomi Carter and is overseen by managing director of Factual Entertainment and Events Hannah Wyatt. BBC Studios Music Productions is the production arm of BBC Studios Productions responsible for music-related commissions. The BBC Studios Music Productions
630-514: Is the biggest content producer in the United Kingdom. BBC Studios Productions has 12 production divisions responsible for producing different programmes for their channels, as well as other broadcasters including Apple TV+ , Amazon Prime Video , Channel 4 , Channel 5 , UKTV , Discovery Channel , Netflix and PBS . The BBC Studios Science Unit has produced a wide range of scientific programmes for multiple broadcasters. The department
675-712: The Department for Culture, Media and Sport and was chair of the Theatre Royal Stratford East until 2009. Hall has been a member of the Regeneration Through Heritage Steering Group, a board member for Race for Opportunity, a board member for Learndirect and Council member of Brunel University . Until May 2000 he was chair of the Royal Television Society . In April 2007, in the wake of the 2007 Iranian seizure of Royal Navy personnel , he
720-576: The House of Lords as a crossbench member on 22 March 2010. He took up the post of Director-General of the BBC on 2 April 2013, and stepped down as Director-General on 31 August 2020, replaced by Tim Davie . An inquiry in 2021 found that Hall, when Director of News at the BBC, had carried out an inadequate investigation into the methods used by Martin Bashir for the BBC's Panorama interview with Diana, Princess of Wales . He resigned as chairman of
765-505: The BBC as a trainee in 1973, initially working at its Belfast newsroom. He later worked as producer on Today , The World at One , The World Tonight , and PM . He became editor of the Nine O'Clock News at the age of 34. In 1987 he was appointed the Editor of News and Current Affairs, and was appointed Director of BBC News and Current Affairs in 1990, combining TV and radio for
810-425: The BBC's publicly funded properties. As a for-profit company, BBC Studios would be allowed to pay higher wages to its executives and talent, and no longer face scrutiny over them as it did as a public entity. The proposal was described by The Guardian as being "one of the biggest changes to the BBC in its 93-year history". The proposal attracted criticism from independent studios, who felt that it would result in
855-922: The National Gallery on 22 May 2021. Since he left the BBC, Hall has joined the Board of the National Trust and was elected to the Communications and Digital Committee of the House of Lords. Tony Hall, the son of a bank manager, was born in Birkenhead , Wirral , in 1951. He was educated at two direct grant schools (now independent), King Edward's School, Birmingham , and Birkenhead School , before going to Keble College, Oxford , where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics , graduating with an MA degree. After Oxford , Hall joined
900-674: The UK and was the primary and sole source of all coronation footage which was covered in Ultra-high-definition and distributed to broadcasters domestically and worldwide. BBC Studios BBC Studios Limited is a British content company. It is a commercial subsidiary of the BBC that was formed in April 2018 through the merger of the BBC's commercial production arm and the BBC's commercial international distribution arm, BBC Worldwide . BBC Studios creates, develops, produces, distributes, broadcasts, finances and sells content around
945-409: The acquisition of Scandinavian production company STV (not to be confused with Scotland's STV Group ). The Copenhagen-based company will be rebranded BBC Studios Nordic Productions. In October 2023, press reports confirmed that BBC Studios had reached a multi-million pound financial settlement to compensate Top Gear presenter Freddie Flintoff for the injuries he sustained in a car crash when filming
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#1732776783538990-424: The company in line with other major multinational studio conglomerates. BBC Studios Productions was the UK's most commissioned creator of new content in 2019, with 77 new commissions from the BBC and third-parties. It achieved 73 awards and 202 nominations in 2019/2020. BBC Studios represents formats and programmes made by hundreds of independent producers, as well as its own production teams and returned £176m to
1035-451: The deal despite warning that the government's proposals would be a "nuclear" option that could lead to the loss of many BBC services. He said that he had thought about resigning over the issue, before deciding to stay and seek to ameliorate the changes. Hall agreed with the interviewer, Amol Rajan , that there was a need to improve "diversity of thought" at the BBC, and was hopeful of 50/50 equal pay parity during 2020. On 20 January 2020, it
1080-564: The first time. He continued to lead BBC News until 2001. Among his career achievements are the launch of BBC Parliament , BBC Radio 5 Live , BBC News 24 , and BBC News Online . In 1999 he applied unsuccessfully for the position of Director-General of the BBC , but was later successful, being appointed as BBC Director-General on 22 November 2012, and took office on 2 April 2013. On 25 March 2015, Hall decided not to renew Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson 's BBC contract after an internal investigation found that Clarkson had assaulted
1125-410: The formation of a "super-indie" that would unduly benefit from "guaranteed" programme commissions from the BBC. As part of the split, the BBC planned to tender its programmes, so that independent producers and BBC Studios could bid for the rights to produce its non-news programming, outside of top shows (such as Doctor Who ) assigned to BBC Studios. The re-organisation and formation of BBC Studios as
1170-418: The independent sector in 2018/2019. The company is on track to meet its five-year target of returning £1.2bn to the BBC by 2021/2022. BBC Studios has committed to growing this total by a further 30% to a new target of £1.5bn in the five years from 2022/2023. BBC Studios Ltd. as a production company was first registered on 27 February 2015. In September 2015, the BBC's general director Tony Hall announced
1215-514: The potential of taking British children's content to the wider global market, along with BBC Three 's in-house production team, which is joining from April 2021. BBC News and BBC Radio remain separate internal production divisions in the BBC, and the rest of the former BBC Television division (channels and genre commissioning, including BBC Sport and BBC iPlayer ) are part of the BBC Content division. The BBC Studios production division
1260-505: The production and sales of its programming within one unit, it would improve efficiency and be in line with the "global norms" of other major international media companies. Technically, BBC Ventures Group Ltd. was renamed BBC Studios Group Ltd. on 3 April 2018, and then BBC Studios Ltd. 1 October 2018; also in October, the production company established in 2015 was renamed BBC Studios Productions Ltd., and so did BBC Worldwide Ltd. , which
1305-419: The programme's producer. Hall and his wife received death threats which the BBC decided were "credible", and they were subsequently guarded by police. On 28 March, Scotland Yard confirmed that officers were investigating the threats. Shortly before leaving the BBC on 31 August 2020, Hall commented that the 2015 negotiations with the government over TV licences for the over 75s had been "tense". Hall struck
1350-533: The public service BBC News operation will assume editorial control of the channel. More recently, the studio had set up a development deal with EbonyLife Media, which was affiliated with Sony Pictures Television , headed by Mo Abudu . In August 2022, it was revealed that BBC Studios planned to launch an international newsletter business, initially focusing on Canada and the US, the BBC's second largest non-UK news market behind India. In June 2023, BBC Studios announced
1395-535: The remaining stake in the indie outfit and placed Firebird under their subsidiaries. In April 2019, BBC Studios announced various agreements with Discovery, Inc. ; the companies agreed to break apart their UKTV joint venture, with Discovery (which had acquired a stake in UKTV after its purchase of Scripps Networks Interactive ) acquiring the BBC's stake in UKTV's lifestyle channels, and BBC Studios likewise acquiring Discovery's stakes in UKTV's entertainment channels and
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1440-446: The tendering plan, stating that it would tender at least 40% of the "in-house guarantee" within two years of approval of the transition. The BBC Trust subsequently approved the creation of BBC Studios as a commercial subsidiary, with the process expected to be completed in April 2017. On 29 November 2017, the BBC announced that BBC Worldwide would be merged into BBC Studios effective 1 April 2018. The BBC stated that by handling both
1485-514: The video on-demand service UKTV Play . In addition, Discovery announced a 10-year agreement with the BBC's Natural History Unit to acquire exclusive subscription video-on-demand rights to its content worldwide (which would be incorporated into a forthcoming global streaming brand ), and co-fund a development team. Discovery had previously served as the Natural History's Unit U.S. partner until 2013. In August 2019, BBC Studios announced
1530-429: The world, returning around £ 200 million to the BBC annually in dividends and content investment. BBC Studios Productions brings together the majority of BBC Television 's former in-house production departments; Factual, Drama, Comedy (both combined as Scripted in the new division), Entertainment, and Music & Events. BBC Children's production is set to move into BBC Studios Productions from April 2022 to increase
1575-461: The years ending 29 August 2010 and 2011 respectively. Hall's appointment to become chair of the board of trustees of the National Gallery was announced in January 2020. He took up the position on 1 September 2020 after standing down from his position at the BBC. He resigned as National Gallery chairman on 22 May 2021 following an inquiry into BBC Panorama 's Princess Diana interview . Hall
1620-431: Was a division of the BBC founded in 1967 to commercially exploit the corporation's output for radio and television for both educational and domestic use. In the 1990s licensing and marketing of the BBC's recorded output become the responsibility of BBC Worldwide (formerly BBC Enterprises) , and the corporation ceased the direct release of recorded material, instead licensing its products to other companies. BBC Worldwide
1665-414: Was announced that Hall would leave his Director-General job in the summer, saying "If I followed my heart I would genuinely never want to leave." He spent seven years in the role. Hall said it was better for a new person to lead the corporation through its mid-term review in 2022 and BBC Charter renewal in 2027. Hall was appointed Chief Executive of the Royal Opera House in April 2001. He set up ROH2,
1710-539: Was appointed Deputy Chairman of Channel 4 in 2012, a post he was obliged to relinquish upon becoming Director-General of the BBC . On 29 June 2018, Hall was elected as the new President of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). After leaving the BBC in September 2020, it was announced that Hall would chair an independent company producing documentaries, HTYT Stories. In January 2022, he
1755-500: Was appointed inaugural chair of the industry-led Creative & Cultural Skills (Sector Skills Councils), a post he held between 2004 and 2009. Sector Skills Councils introduced the first formal creative apprenticeships; won government approval to build state-of-the-art facility The Backstage Centre for backstage skills located with the Royal Opera House's production park at High House Purfleet in Thurrock , Essex , and maintain
1800-657: Was appointed to chair the board of Frontline, a charity whose aim is "helping to keep children free from harm and supporting them to achieve their full potential..". In November 2023 he was appointed as the chairman of the board of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra . In May 2024 it was announced that he would lead a new body to promote tourism in the Liverpool City Region . In September 2009 Hall received an honorary doctorate of Literature (Hon DLit) from Goldsmiths, University of London , and subsequently
1845-872: Was asked to lead an enquiry into the MOD's media strategy. Since 2008, he has served on the board of the British Council . In July 2009, at the Mayor of London and HM Government's request, he set up and chaired a board directing the Cultural Olympiad , and also joined the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games Board. Hall has been a Trustee of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation since 2011, and
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1890-598: Was elected an Honorary Fellow of Keble College, Oxford. The Chartered Management Institute awarded him the 2010 Gold Medal Award for outstanding achievement. City University elected him an Honorary Visiting Fellow of Journalism in 2012, and he has been a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers since 1985. More recently, Hall received an honorary degree from Birmingham City University in January 2017 and an honorary doctorate from City University in January 2018. Hall has written: He
1935-457: Was formed in 2016 and launched as a commercial entity in 2017, enabling it to produce programming for other broadcasters and services to generate profit to return to the BBC to supplement licence fee income. In exchange, the BBC agreed to place production of much of its non-news programmes to tender , allowing third-party independents to compete with BBC Studios on bids to produce them. The merger of BBC Studios and BBC Worldwide in 2018, brought
1980-424: Was merged into BBC Studios from 2018, which now licenses the use of the BBC logo on commercial recordings. BritBox is an over-the-top subscription video on-demand brand, which includes original programming commissioned or acquired by the company, and third-party content licensed from other UK channels such as BBC , ITV , Channel 4 and Channel 5 . The service was announced by BBC Worldwide and ITV plc as
2025-527: Was renamed BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. In February 2019, BBC Studios had announced that they've taken a 25% minority stake in the new independent drama production company founded by former BBC executives Elizabeth Kilgarriff and Craig Holleworth which was named Firebird Pictures and signed an international distribution deal to distribute Firebird's programmes. Three years later in October 2022, BBC Studios announce that they had taken full control of independent drama production label Firebird Pictures by acquiring
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