The BBC has reshuffled the senior commissioning ranks of its unscripted division, with the appointment of Kalpna Patel-Knight as head of entertainment.
Patel-Knight takes on the newly created role following an internal restructure of BBC Television’s senior leadership team, which saw the recent closure of the director of entertainment role.
Kalpna Patel-Knight
The rejig in May saw Kate Phillips, who had been director of entertainment commissioning, taking up a giant remit as director of unscripted for the public broadcaster.
Patel-Knight, meanwhile, has been a commissioning editor for entertainment at the BBC since 2017, working on shows such as Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel, Blankety Blank and Wim Hof’s Freeze The Fear.
Before that, she led entertainment at UK prodco Possessed and worked as an executive producer on shows including Celebs Go…
