Career And History Of Jane Tranter

Jane Tranter, the second most important person at the BBC was born on 17th March 1963, in Oxford. Being at the age of 45 she is an english television execuetive, who is the head of fiction at the BBC. Her job is to oversee the corperations output in drama and comedy programmes as well as films and programmes acquired from overseas, across all television channels, mainly the BBC.

Tranter joined the BBC staff in 1985, after studying english literature at Kings college London and a secretarial course in Oxford. She started of work as a secretary in the radio department and 2 years later made a switch onto television, working as a floor manager on popular programmes such as EastEnders and Bergerac.

In that same year she was promoted to assistant script editor, working on the BBC's popular medical drama Casualty. Her outstanding ability suddenly caught the eye of producer David M. Thompson, who promoted her to act as script editor on the anthology drama series Screen One.

In 1992, she left the staff of the BBC to take up a position as a drama script editor at Carlton Television, working for Tracy Hofman, controller of drama. At Carlton Tranter oversaw the Timothy Spall-starring comedy-drama Frank Stubbs Promotes and the Victorian-era medical drama Bramwell, both of which became highly successful popular hits for ITV. Her success as an executive producer at Carlton led to the BBC making a bid to bring her back to their staff, and she returned to the Corporation in 1997.

In 2000, she was promoted to the BBC's overall Head of Drama, ultimately responsible for overseeing the Corporation's entire drama output across all channels, from the in-house departments and independent companies, in series, serials and one-offs. In 2003 she was responsible for a programming budget in the region of £324 million, and in 2002 alone was ultimately responsible for 473 hours of television.

In September 2006, Tranter was promoted to the newly-created Head of Fiction position at the BBC. This made her ultimately responsible not only for drama, but for comedy, films and acquired programmes from overseas.