Danny Cohen is planning to put a bit of zing into the step of senior BBC management - make them get back their "grass roots" and muck in with their programme-making minions. The BBC's director of television is blazing a trail to kick off the scheme, called "Back to the Trenches (sorry, Floor)", by doing a day as a runner on Strictly Come Dancing. Monkey imagines that colleagues are already drawing up an outrageous list of chores to torment Cohen, who will have the most over-qualified resumé for doing coffee and donut runs in the history of TV gophers.
