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Zai Bennett

September 2016

  • Rory McCann, Conleth Hill, Iwan Rheon, Hannah Murray, Gwendoline Christie, Peter Dinklage, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Maisie Williams, Emilia Clarke, Sophie Turner, Kit Harington<br>Rory McCann, from left, Conleth Hill, Iwan Rheon, Hannah Murray, Gwendoline Christie, Peter Dinklage, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Maisie Williams, Emilia Clarke, Sophie Turner, and Kit Harington winners of the award for outstanding drama series for “Game of Thrones” pose in the press room at the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, Sept. 18, 2016, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

    Game of Thrones: season six
    Fantasy made reality as Game of Thrones earns record Emmy haul

    Hit series has now won 38 awards, overtaking Frasier as most decorated show

August 2015

  • Celebrity Big Brother 2015<br>Presenter Emma Willis in the diary room of the new look Big Brother house in Boreham, Hertfordshire before the start of the UK vs USA Celebrity Big Brother this Thursday. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Monday August 24, 2015. Photo credit should read: Ian West/PA Wire

    Media Monkey
    Big Brother and the great TV exec extravaganza

    Emma Willis presented Edinburgh Does Big Brother, in which eight telly executives were locked into ‘the house’ for 24 hours

February 2015

  • Zai Bennett

    Zai Bennett: ‘Fortitude is a brilliant statement of ambition’

    Sky Atlantic’s boss on axing BBC3, the return of The Tunnel, and making more women watch Game of Thrones

April 2014

  • Tony Gallagher

    Media Monkey
    Media Monkey's Diary: BBC, Tony Gallagher, Ipso and Zai Bennett

  • Zai Bennett

    BBC3 controller Zai Bennett to head Sky Atlantic

March 2014

  • W1A

    Media Monkey
    Media Monkey's Diary: W1A, Peter Salmon, BBC3 and the Economist

  • Family Guy

    BBC3's Zai Bennett: 'It's perverse the station will cease to be a linear channel'

August 2012

  • BBC3 controller Zai Bennett

    Media interview
    Zai Bennett: 'It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity'

    The BBC3 controller is banking on Olympic viewers currently boosting his ratings sticking around to for the autumn schedule, which he promises is a 'total reboot'. By John Plunkett

January 2012

  • The BBC’s Salford headquarters

    BBC expenses grew 20% year on year during Salford move

    Corporation says period from April to June 2011 involved one-off costs of staff migration to Salford. By Mark Sweney

November 2011

  • Richard Bacon

    Young version of Question Time to air once a month on BBC3

    BBC3 controller Zai Bennett praises show's recent debate covering the UK riots. By Tara Conlan

June 2011

  • Zai Bennett

    Scrapping BBC3 is off the agenda, says channel chief

    Zai Bennett says 'nothing is off limits' in cost-cutting review, but corporation has ruled out abolishing service. By Ben Dowell

March 2011

  • Angela Jain

    ITV appoints former head of E4 as director of digital channels

    Angela Jain takes role vacated by new BBC 3 controller Zai Bennett and will be responsible for ITV2, ITV3, ITV4 and CITV. By Mark Sweney

December 2010

  • Zai Bennett

    Zai Bennett appointed BBC3 controller

    ITV director of digital channels and acquisitions to succeed Danny Cohen. By Tara Conlan

October 2010

  • Jana Bennett

    Frontrunners for BBC3 controller emerge

    Matthew Littleford, Zai Bennett and Liam Keelan tipped for the role following appointment of Danny Cohen as BBC1 controller. By Mark Sweney

April 2009

  • New role for ITV2 controller Zai Bennett

    Bennett to become director of digital channels and acquisitions, taking responsibility for ITV3 and ITV4. By Leigh Holmwood

December 2008

  • Secret Diary of a Call Girl

    Organ Grinder
    Happy birthday ITV2

    Gareth McLean talks to ITV2 controller Zai Bennett about a decade of the entertainment channel, from Bedrock to Secret Diary of a Call Girl

August 2008

  • Media Monkey
    TV execs bullied by 10-year-olds

    Further word from the TV executives' Edinburgh programming specials, and Monkey hears things didn't go too well for those who took on the children in a version of Sky1's Are You Smarter Than a 10-Year-Old? Apparently the trinity of Richard Klein, head of independent commissioning at BBC Knowledge, ITV2 controller Zai Bennett and Channel Five's Steve Gowans found themselves weeping at the hands of the little blighters. One stunned executive whimpered: "Those kids were just freaky."

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