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Jane Tranter (born 17 March 1963) is an English television executive who has been the executive vice-president of programming and production at BBC Worldwide's Los Angeles base since January 2009. From 2006 to 2008, she was the BBC's controller of fiction; in this capacity she oversaw the corporation's output in drama and comedy, as well as films and programmes acquired from overseas, across all television channels. Critics were concerned that the BBC had invested too much creative power in one person, and following Tranter's move to the United States, the position of controller of fiction was abolished and the responsibilities divided up among four other executives. == Early career == After studying English Literature at King's College London and taking a secretarial course back in Oxford, she joined the staff of the BBC in 1985, initially working as a secretary in the radio drama department. Two years later, she made the switch into television, working as a floor manager on dramas such as ''EastEnders'' and ''Bergerac''. Later that same year she was promoted to assistant script editor, working on the BBC's popular medical drama ''Casualty''. She quickly caught the eye of producer David M. Thompson, who promoted her to act as script editor on the anthology drama series ''Screen One'' and ''Screen Two'', essentially the same programme whose title changed depending on whether it was being screened on BBC One or BBC Two, the transmission channel varying depending on content and tone of the dramas produced. In 1992, she left the staff of the BBC to take up a position as a drama script editor at Carlton Television, working for Tracy Hofman, the controller of drama. Carlton had won the ITV network franchise for broadcasting in London on weekdays, and planned to produce dramas for national consumption across the entire network. At Carlton, Tranter oversaw the Timothy Spall comedy-drama ''Frank Stubbs Promotes'' and the Victorian-era medical drama ''Bramwell'', both of which became successful and popular hits for ITV. Her success as an executive producer at Carlton led to the BBC making a bid to bring her back to their staff; she returned to the Corporation in 1997, initially as an executive producer in the Film & Single Drama department. In 1999 she became Head of Drama Serials. In these roles she commissioned and oversaw a range of dramas made or co-produced by the BBC's own drama department, from playwright Arthur Smith's football-based comedy-drama ''My Summer With Des'' (1998) to gritty contemporary dramas such as ''Warriors'' (1999, starring Matthew Macfadyen) and traditional BBC literary adaptations in the vein of ''David Copperfield'' (also 1999). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jane Tranter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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