Biographies

Controller, BBC Three

Danny took up his position as Controller, BBC Three in May 2007.

During his first year, Danny revamped the channel with a raft of new programmes alongside a brand new look for the channel and a huge step forward in multiplatform.

Share among 16 to 34-year-olds increased in the year by around 20%, and in August 2008 BBC Three was named the Edinburgh International TV Festival's Digital Channel of the Year.

Danny's commissions at BBC Three so far have included factual programmes Blood, Sweat And T-Shirts, Britain's Missing Top Model, Young Mums' Mansion and The World's Strictest Parents, entertainment show The Undercover Princes, drama Being Human, and comedy including How Not To Live Your Life and Coming Of Age.

During this period BBC Three also became the first non-news BBC channel to simulcast programmes on the web and have regular slots for user-generated content in prime-time.

Prior to joining the BBC, Danny was Head of E4 and Head of Channel 4 Factual Entertainment.

During his time at Channel 4 he commissioned youth drama Skins, the BAFTA-winning FoneJacker, National Comedy Award winner The Inbetweeners, RTS Award-winner Supernanny, the BAFTA-nominated The Trial Of Tony Blair, and the documentary strand Cutting Edge.

Before this, he worked in Documentaries at Channel 4 for five years, both as Commissioning Editor and then as Head, overseeing the team of editors responsible for landmark contemporary documentary, documentary formats and docudrama.

Between 2000 and 2001, Danny was Factual Commissioning Editor for the launch of E4.

His career began at Diverse, where he became Head of Development after a period in production.