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BBC Studios: will Tony Hall's plans be hobbled by top execs legging it?

BBC director general Tony Hall: ‘… and the savings on staff pay are this big’.
BBC director general Tony Hall: ‘… and the savings on staff pay are this big’. Photograph: David Graeme-Baker/BBC/PA

Taxi (again) for BBC Studios! Following the double-whammy of Natalie Humphreys’s and Katie Taylor’s departures from the Beeb’s freshly liberated production arm, wags are joking that the exodus of five of its top team has earned director general Lord “Wolf” Hall some new monikers, such as Lord “Empty” Hall and Barren Hall of Birkenhead. Meanwhile, since the launch of BBC Studios on 29 April, the old BBC Studios & Post Production (which looks after the actual physical studios the corporation owns) has been rebranded BBC Studioworks. Could there perhaps be a pointed subliminal message in that choice of name?

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