BBC director general: …and they're off!

Who will replace Mark Thompson? The BBC's director of vision George Entwistle is the bookies' favourite to be the next director general, just ahead of BBC chief operating officer Caroline Thomson and the corporation's director of news, Helen Boaden, according to Ladbrokes. Entwistle is 5/2 favourite ahead of Thomson at 3/1 and Boaden at 7/2. Former Channel 4 chief executive Michael Jackson isn't far behind at 4/1 with BBC1 controller Danny Cohen and Ed Richards, chief executive of media regulator Ofcom, both on 12/1, ahead of ITV director of television Peter Fincham at 14/1 and BBC director of audio and music Tim Davie and Channel 4 creative director Jay Hunt, both on 16/1. Those others in full: 20/1 Mark Scott, 20/1 David Abraham, 20/1 Peter Salmon, 20/1 Sophie Turner Laing, 25/1 Dawn Airey, 50/1 Greg Dyke, 50/1 Michael Grade. Not overly generous on Dyke or Grade, then.