Liam Keelan, Controller, BBC Daytime

• Liam is responsible for the channel strategy, commissions and development decisions for all content transmitted on BBC Daytime including the scheduling.
• Liam provides creative leadership and strategic vision for BBC Daytime and early peak-time programming and ensures that Daytime and early peak-time television continues to provide distinctive, experimental programming of quality, range and ambition for our target audiences on BBC One, BBC Two and online.
• Liam leads the process of commissioning and refreshing the BBC's Daytime and early peak-time shows, determining Daytime's priorities, style, tone and presentation to retain market leadership for BBC television.

Salary: £190,550
Total remuneration: £198,350

Last updated February 2011

Liam has been Controller, BBC Daytime since February 2006. Liam's role runs across the whole day and includes The One Show and the 6-7pm slot on BBC Two.

Under Liam's tenure, the schedule has been revamped, with a stronger emphasis on drama, consumer/current affairs and event-led programming.

His commissions for BBC One and Two have included factual events with drama tie-ins such as The Week We Went To War and Land Girls; Rewind The 60s and The Indian Doctor; The Story Of Us and Brinkburn Street. Other highlights have included Great British Railway Journeys with Michael Portillo, the Jimmy McGovern drama Moving On, the Alexander Armstrong-fronted quiz, Pointless, and Rip-Off Britain (with Gloria Hunniford, Jennie Bond and Angela Rippon) which has recently transferred to peak-time BBC One attracting audiences well in excess of 5 million.

The shift in direction has paid dividends with increased ratings, higher audience appreciation and a much greater breadth of programming genres across daytime.

Prior to this role, Liam ran daytime programming at ITV, and was responsible for the commissioning and successful launch of Dickinson's Real Deal and The Alan Titchmarsh Show.

Before leaving for ITV Liam was Head of Scheduling and Planning, BBC One, helping to launch shows that were hits with the critics and audience alike including Strictly Come Dancing, Doctor Who and Planet Earth.

He joined BBC One from UK Horizons where he worked as Channel Editor and also devised the idea for the UK History channel.

Prior to this role Liam worked in scheduling and planning at the BBC, becoming Head of Scheduling, BBC Two in 1999. During this time he helped to redefine the Channel with the launch of groundbreaking titles such The Office, The Naked Chef and Cops.

Liam originally joined the BBC in 1995 working in audience research.

Expenses are costs incurred by BBC staff on behalf of the BBC and claimed through the BBC's expenses system (e-expenses). Central bookings are costs incurred on behalf of the BBC and booked through the BBC's central bookings system. Both expenses and central bookings are published every three months.

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• Liam Keelan's e-expenses Q3 2011-12 PDF (99KB)
• Liam Keelan's central bookings Q3 2011-12 PDF (104KB)
• Liam Keelan's e-expenses Q2 2011-12 PDF (53KB)
• Liam Keelan's central bookings Q2 2011-12 PDF (95KB)
• Liam Keelan's e-expenses Q1 2011-12 PDF (147KB)
• Liam Keelan's central bookings Q1 2011-12 PDF (51KB)
• Liam Keelan's e-expenses Q4 2010-11 PDF (57KB)
• Liam Keelan's central bookings Q4 2010-11 PDF (76KB)
• Liam Keelan's e-expenses Q3 2010-11 PDF (81KB)
• Liam Keelan's central bookings Q3 2010-11 PDF (81KB)
• Liam Keelan had no e-expenses paid in Q2 2010-11
• Liam Keelan's central bookings Q2 2010-11 PDF (81KB)
• Liam Keelan's e-expenses Q1 2010-11 PDF (98KB)
• Liam Keelan's central bookings Q1 2010-11 PDF (79KB)
• Liam Keelan's expenses Q4 2009-10 PDF (221KB)
• Liam Keelan's central bookings Q4 2009-10 PDF (39KB)
• Liam Keelan had no e-expenses paid in Q3 2009-10
• Liam Keelan's central bookings Q3 2009-10 PDF (65KB)
• Liam Keelan's e-expenses Q2 2009-10 PDF (56KB)
• Liam Keelan's central bookings Q2 2009-10 PDF (31KB)
• Liam Keelan's e-expenses Q1 2009-10 PDF (73KB)
• Liam Keelan's central bookings Q1 2009-10 PDF (72KB)

Gifts and hospitality may only be accepted in line with BBC policy. Information about gifts and hospitality is published every three months.

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• Liam Keelan had no gifts or hospitality to declare in Q3 2011-12
• Liam Keelan had no gifts or hospitality to declare in Q2 2011-12
• Liam Keelan had no gifts or hospitality to declare in Q1 2011-12
• Liam Keelan had no gifts or hospitality to declare in Q4 2010-11
• Liam Keelan had no gifts or hospitality to declare in Q3 2010-11
• Liam Keelan had no gifts or hospitality to declare in Q2 2010-11
• Liam Keelan had no gifts or hospitality to declare in Q1 2010-11
• Liam Keelan had no gifts or hospitality to declare in Q4 2009-10
• Liam Keelan had no gifts or hospitality to declare in Q3 2009-10
• Liam Keelan had no gifts or hospitality to declare in Q2 2009-10
• Liam Keelan had no gifts or hospitality to declare in Q1 2009-10

Staff must make a declaration of their personal and business interests, including any memberships or directorships of public or industry bodies, and any shareholdings, as well as any interests that their immediate families may also have.

A summary is published where there is something to declare and where there is nothing to declare. Occasionally an individual will have something to declare but due to the personal nature of the declaration we do not publish details as to do so would breach the Data Protection Act.

This information if published annually, although if any amendments are made during the year an updated summary will be published if necessary as soon as it is available.

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• Liam Keelan's Declaration of Personal Interests 2011 PDF (30KB)