Tamara Howe

Howe's start in television was as a trainee production assistant at Bandung Productions^[6] (whose programmes included Channel 4's Bandung File, co-edited by Darcus Howe with Tariq Ali), and she was Director of Production at Granada from 1999 to 2002, during which time she was a founding member of the Cultural Diversity Network, working with other key broadcasters to improve representation on and off the screen,^[2][4] before joining BBC Current Affairs as Head of Production & Finance in 2003.^[7] She moved on to become Chief Operating Officer, BBC Children's (2006–12) where she was instrumental in moving Blue Peter to a smaller studio and then in 2012 became Controller Production Operations, Vision, with responsibility for such flagship programmes such as EastEnders, Top Gear, The One Show, Luther and Strictly Come Dancing.^[8][9][4]

In 2012, she was appointed the BBC's Controller of Business, Comedy & Entertainment, Television.^[10]

In Vice Media's restructuring of its UK-based TV and digital operations, Howe was brought in to oversee content in 2018.^[11]

Howe is a London Council member of the Prince's Trust, chairs the Edinburgh TV Festival Talent Schemes, and is a governor at Ravensbourne University London.^[12]

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