Kate Phillips to replace Charlotte Moore as BBC interim chief content officer - The corporation will continue to search for a permanent successor to Moore.

The BBC's unscripted supremo Kate Phillips will take on content boss Charlotte Moore's role at least in the interim. An all-staff note from Director General Tim Davie has just been sent around announcing Phillips’ new temporary gig with “immediate effect.

The BBC’s chief content officer, Charlotte Moore, is to leave the corporation later in the year, it has been announced. Moore, who has been in that role since September 2020, is leaving to join Left Bank Pictures as chief executive and Sony Pictures Television as EVP,