Tamara Howe

Tamara Howe (born November 1965)[1] is a British television production manager and executive with more than 30 years' experience, including working at London Weekend Television, before joining BBC TV, where she held various posts,[2] culminating with the role of Controller of Business, Comedy & Entertainment, Television.[3] She featured in Powerlist 2013: Britain's Most Influential Black People, described as "one of the most influential people at the BBC".[4]

Early life

Tamara Howe, daughter of editors of Race Today Una Howe and Darcus Howe,[5] was born in Lewisham, London.[1]

Career

Howe's start in television was as trainee production assistant at Bandung Productions[6] (whose programmes included The Bandung File co-edited by Darcus Howe with Tariq Ali), and she was Director of Production at Granada from 1999 to 2002, during which time she was a founding member of the Cultural Diversity Network, working with other key broadcasters to improve representation on and off the screen,[2][4] before joining BBC Current Affairs as Head of Production & Finance in 2003.[7] She moved on to become Chief Operating Officer, BBC Children's (2006–12) where she was instrumental in moving Blue Peter to a smaller studio and then in 2012 became Controller Production Operations, Vision, with responsibility for such flagship programmes such as EastEnders, Top Gear, The One Show, Luther and Strictly Come Dancing.[8][9][4]

In 2012 she was appointed the BBC's Controller of Business, Comedy & Entertainment, Television.[10]

In Vice Media's restructuring of its UK-based TV and digital operations, Howe was brought in to oversee content in 2018.[11]

Howe is a London Council member of the Prince's Trust, is chairs the Edinburgh TV Festival Talent Schemes and is a governor at Ravensbourne College.[12]

References
  1. "Tamara Howe" at IMDb.
  2. Barros, Simon, "Hiive Live Q&A panel - Tamara Howe, Ian Livingstone CBE & Tom Box", Hiive.
  3. Sherwin, Adam (28 November 2016). "BBC failing to take religion seriously says Radio 4 host Roger Bolton". iNews. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  4. "Media, Publishing & Entertainment | Tamara Howe", Power List 2013, p. 40.
  5. Photiou, Andrea (27 April 2017). "Darcus' final farewell: "A real revolutionary…I miss him"". The Voice. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  6. "The secrets of Tamara Howe's success....", Edinburgh TV Festival, 26 – 28 August 2015, 21 February 2012.
  7. "Tamara Howe" at Ravensbourne.
  8. Childs, James, "WHERE ARE THE UK’S BLACK ACTRESSES?", Artefact, 28 October 2014.
  9. Neilan, Catherine, "Howe takes on BBC's in-house reins", Broadcast, 13 December 2011.
  10. Benzine, Adam (20 September 2012). "Lisa Opie takes on Knowledge role at BBC Vision". Realscreen. Retrieved 1 June 2017.
  11. Clarke, Stewart, "Hires and Layoffs (EXCLUSIVE): BBC alum Tamara Howe takes new content chief role", Variety, 8 February 2018.
  12. "Tamara Howe", Edinburgh TV Festival.
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