{"id":601190,"date":"2026-02-19T14:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/601190\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T14:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:11:14","slug":"bbc-hires-ed-havard-fiona-campbell-for-entertainment-factual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/601190\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Hires Ed Havard & Fiona Campbell For Entertainment & Factual"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tOne of the architects behind the BBC<\/a> and NBC\u2019s The Traitors<\/a> deal has joined the corporation to run entertainment.<\/p>\n

\n\tEd Havard<\/a> is exiting his SVP role at Universal International Studios<\/a> (UIS) to become Director of Entertainment at the Beeb, while Fiona Campbell<\/a> takes on the Director of Factual role amid the biggest restructure since content chief Kate Phillips<\/a> took over.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe pair are effectively replacing Phillips, who previously ran unscriped and therefore both genres. Her place was taken briefly by Havard\u2019s Traitors counterpart Syeda Irtizaali, but Irtizaali recently moved to Netflix.<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tThe roles are two of the biggest in British broadcasting and bring to an end a lengthy interview process. Havard will oversee hundred of hours of entertainment a year including the likes of The Traitors, Strictly Come Dancing and RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race UK. Campbell\u2019s factual brief will include arts and documentaries, with her hire coming a few weeks after docs boss Clare Sillery exited. She will also oversee international docs strand Storyville.<\/p>\n

\n\tHavard has spent the past four years running UK unscripted for UIS, which has incorporated The Traitors on the BBC and in the U.S. on Peacock. He helped shepherd the landmark deal that brought The Traitors to screen on both sides of the pond and also worked on its follow-up, Destination X. The next show from the deal, which will be original British IP, is currently being pitched by UK producers.<\/p>\n

\n\tHavard is a former Channel 4 entertainment boss whose credits include The Last Leg and The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe highly-rated Campbell was previously director of youth audiences and had been running unscripted on an interim basis following Irtizaali\u2019s exit. She shepherded BBC Three for many years and used to work across news and current affairs.<\/p>\n

\n\tPhillips said Havard and Campbell are \u201cinspirational leaders who will ensure that entertainment and factual continue to thrive on the BBC.\u201d \u201cCrucially they both put creativity and audiences first and will bring a real energy, clarity and ambition to their teams,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

\n\tBoth Havard and Campbell will begin their roles in the spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the architects behind the BBC and NBC\u2019s The Traitors deal has joined the corporation to run…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":601191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[6531,258923,171,258924,258925,27103,173,67,132,258926,68],"class_list":["post-601190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-bbc","tag-ed-havard","tag-entertainment","tag-fiona-campbell","tag-kate-phillips","tag-the-traitors","tag-tv","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-universal-international-studios","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116097704824873796","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}