| Alan Yentob | |
 Alan Yentob and Grayson Perry at private view of Gilbert & George retrospective, Tate Modern
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| Born | 11 March 1947 |
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| Occupation | Television executive & broadcaster |
| Religious beliefs | Jewish |
Alan Yentob (born March 11, 1947) is a British television executive. Grayson Perry, (born 1960) is an English Artist, known mainly for his ceramic vases and Cross-dressing. Gilbert Prousch (often misspelled as Proesch) (born in San Martin (San Martino, Italy, September The Tate Modern in London is Britain 's national museum of international Modern art and is with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, Events 1425 BC - Thutmose III, Pharaoh of Egypt, dies (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty Year 1947 ( MCMXLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1425 BC - Thutmose III, Pharaoh of Egypt, dies (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty Year 1947 ( MCMXLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic He was born into a Jewish family in London of Iraqi descent, and was educated at The King's School, Ely. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Iraq topics. After initially joining the BBC as a trainee in the BBC World Service in 1968, he has spent his entire professional career with the Corporation. Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Alan has two children, Bella (13) and Harry (17).
Career
In 1973, Yentob became a producer and director working on the high-profile documentary series Omnibus, for which in 1975 he made a famous film called Cracked Actor about the musician David Bowie. Year 1973 ( MCMLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. Omnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom. Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. For the song in which the documentary is named after see Cracked Actor (song Cracked Actor is a 53-minute-long BBC David Bowie (ˈboʊiː born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947 is an English Musician, actor producer, and arranger. He went on later in 1975 to initiate another famous BBC documentary series, Arena, of which he was to remain the Editor until 1985, and the series itself still returns for semi-regular editions as of 2006. Arena is a British Television documentary series made and broadcast by the BBC. Year 1985 ( MCMLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar) Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.
He left Arena to become the BBC's Head of Music and Arts, a position he occupied until 1987, when he was promoted to Controller of BBC Two, one of the youngest channel controllers in the BBC's history. Year 1987 ( MCMLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar) Under Alan's five year stewardship BBC Two was re-vitalised and he introduced many innovations in programming such as The Late Show, Have I Got News For You, Absolutely Fabulous and Wallace and Gromit's The Wrong Trousers. Have I Got News for You is a British television panel show produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC. Absolutely Fabulous (also known as Ab Fab) was a BAFTA and Emmy Award -winning British sitcom written by and starring The Wrong Trousers is a 1993 Animated film directed by Nick Park at Aardman Animations in Bristol, featuring his characters
Yentob was rewarded for his success in 1993 when he was promoted to Controller of BBC One, responsible for the output of the BBC's premier channel. Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) His time here was seen as another success and he remained in the post for four years until 1996, when he was promoted again to become BBC Television's overall Director of Programmes. Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar)
This appointment was only a brief one, however, before a re-organisation of the BBC's Executive Committee led to the creation of a new post, filled by Yentob, of Director of Drama, Entertainment and Children's. This placed Yentob in overall supervision of the BBC's output in these three genres across all media - radio, television and Internet. He occupied this post until June 2004, when new BBC Director-General Mark Thompson re-organised the BBC's executive committee and promoted Yentob to the new post of BBC Creative Director, responsible for overseeing BBC creative output across television, radio and interactive services. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " The Director-General is chief executive and (from 1944 Editor-in-chief of the BBC. Mark Thompson (born July 31 1957) is Director-General of the BBC, a post he has held since 2004 and a former chief executive of
In the 2000s, he has also begun fronting BBC programmes as a presenter. These have included a series on the life of Leonardo da Vinci and a new regular arts series, Imagine. Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci ( April 15 1452 – May 2 1519 was an Italian Polymath, having been a scientist Mathematician, Engineer Imagine is a wide ranging arts series first broadcast on BBC One in 2003
One episode of Imagine has Alan explore the World Wide Web, Blogging, User created content, and even the use of Wikipedia, exploring people's motives and satisfaction that can be had from sharing information on such a large scale. Imagine is a wide ranging arts series first broadcast on BBC One in 2003 ***************************************************************************************** * * His own blog, created during the making of the episode, was subsequently deleted and purged.
Unfortunately Yentob's reputation has become slightly tarnished of late, after it was revealed that his participation in some of the interviews for Imagine had been faked. Yentob has been warned not to do this again, but otherwise not disciplined, much to the disgruntlement of some who have seen more junior staff lose their jobs for lesser misdemeanours. [1]
Yentob's fifteen-year-old son Jacob Walker Yentob was wounded in a stabbing incident in September 2006. Jacob and a friend were stabbed after refusing to hand over valuables to a robber who knocked on the door at the family's four-storey Victorian home in Notting Hill. Both teenagers needed hospital attention after the attack. Yentob has one other child, his daughter Isabella, and is married to Philippa Walker, a television producer. [2]
In October 2007, Yentob was once again the centre of a controversy about faked interviews for "Imagine" when he substituted himself for another film-maker who had conducted interviews with singer Scott Walker.
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| Preceded by Jonathan Powell |
Controller of BBC One 1992-1996 |
Succeeded by Michael Jackson |
| Preceded by Graeme MacDonald |
Controller of BBC Two 1987-1993 |
Succeeded by Michael Jackson |
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