Royally shocked! Duchess Camilla is speaking out after Queen Elizabeth II confirmed her future place on the British throne.
25.01.2022 - 14:24 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: “Bringing BBC Three back to linear TV” would have been far down former BBC Director General Tony Hall’s list of predictions for his successor’s first major piece of business.
In 2014, having only just become DG, Hall took the first forward-thinking decision of his own rein by making BBC Three a solely online channel, knocking a hefty £50M ($67.4M) from its budget (the money was diverted to drama) and acting ahead of the curve of the viewing habits of BBC Three’s younger target market, who were showing a greater propensity to watch programing on streaming platforms at a time of their choosing.
Fast-forward six years and Hall’s successor, Tim Davie, dramatically U-turned, giving the greenlight to a plan that had been in the works for several months and announcing that BBC Three was to return to traditional TV sets. Just as crucially, the channel would be given its £50M back.
The woman tasked with leading the charge was Channel Controller Fiona Campbell, an optimistic, Northern Irish-based former BBC News exec who brims with confidence and vision when Deadline sits down with her over Zoom earlier this month, just weeks before February 1 launch day.
Campbell has questions to answer and is prepared.
First and foremost, in a world in which streaming habits have rendered appointment-to-view TV virtually null and void for anyone under the age of 35 (BBC Three’s target market), why is it being reinstated?
“My feeling is that channels are still incredibly powerful,” she tells Deadline, citing BBC One’s The Green Planet, the latest David Attenborough doc that had aired the night before to 5M viewers.
“I’m not denying that the competition is tough but when you look overnight at BBC One and BBC Two, there are a lot of people
Royally shocked! Duchess Camilla is speaking out after Queen Elizabeth II confirmed her future place on the British throne.
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What she wants. As Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her Platinum Jubilee — 70 years on the British throne —she opened up about her wishes for the future of the U.K. monarchy.
Queen Elizabeth II’s rule on Sunday, the queen looked to the future of the monarchy.In remarks delivered in time for Sunday morning’s front pages, the queen expressed a “sincere wish’’ that Prince Charles’ wife, Camilla, should be known as “Queen Consort” when her son succeeds her as expected. With those words the monarch sought to answer once and for all questions about the status of Camilla, who was initially shunned by fans of the late Princess Diana, Charles’ first wife.“The queen is such a realist and, you know, she’s got a business to run,’’ historian Robert Lacey said.
The Prince of Wales has paid tribute to his “darling wife” the Duchess of Cornwall – the future Queen Consort – for her “steadfast support” as he congratulated his mother the Queen on her “remarkable” Platinum Jubilee.
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Queen Elizabeth II offered her support Saturday to have the Duchess of Cornwall become Queen Camilla — using a special Platinum Jubilee message to make a significant decision in shaping the future of the British monarchy.
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