Kate is responsible for the strategy and output of all Entertainment, Factual, Arts, Classical Music, Daytime and Events programming across BBC Channels and iPlayer, amounting to 3,000 hours of content a year.

Previously she was Director of Entertainment at the BBC commissioning over 500 hours of original programmes a year, including shows such as Strictly Come Dancing, The Apprentice, Top Gear, The Graham Norton Show, Have I Got News For You, Would I Lie To You, Masterchef, University Challenge, Dragons’ Den, The Wheel, Michael McIntyre’s Big Show, Picture Slam, The Hit List, Drag Race UK,  Eurovision, Gladiators and The Traitors.

During the pandemic Kate was Acting Controller of BBC One, overseeing all programmes on the channel, working and commissioning with many genres including Factual, Current Affairs, Sport, Comedy, Drama and Entertainment.

In 2014,  Kate was the Creative Director of Formats for BBC Worldwide. In this role Kate oversaw all of BBC Worldwide’s scripted and non-scripted formats, over 200 in total.  She led the Formats team in London collaborating with the Sales and Production teams across all of BBC Worldwide’s Global Territories. 

Prior to this Kate worked as Channel Executive for BBC1 and BBC3, working closely with the Controllers to oversee all editorial content on both channels, managing early development of commissions and liaising with scheduling, budgeting, marketing, press, and social media planning and strategy. 

Kate also created and ran the successful BBC training scheme Future Formats and resided as the BBC Formats Representative on the European Broadcast Union.  In this role she helped devise and establish  the annual Creative Forum in Berlin.  She has also run development teams specialising in Entertainment, Factual Entertainment and Children’s TV.

Kate’s extensive TV production experience was garnered through producing numerous comedy, entertainment and factual programmes for many broadcasters, as well as being a co-owner and Director of Mast Media, an award winning television formats company which developed multiple shows airing on the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and across the globe.

Kate has a degree in Politics from Bristol University.