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BBC announces new Executive Producer for Current Affairs Commissioning
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Eamon Hardy is to take over responsibility for the BBC's independent current affairs commissions - as the Executive Producer, Current Affairs (Factual Commissioning).
Eamon moves to the Independent Executive Producer job initially on attachment for three months, before a decision is taken on the permanent position.
Eamon succeeds Lucy Hetherington, who is about to start maternity leave.
When Lucy returns in April 2007 it will be in a new role as Executive Producer for the BBC's in-house current affairs department.
George Entwistle, BBC Television's Commissioning Editor for Current Affairs, said: "Eamon has an impressive track record in current affairs and will bring considerable talent and experience to the role. I'm looking forward to working with him."
Eamon said: "Lucy did a fantastic job and I'm looking forward to building on the positive relationships she has nurtured with the indies. There is a great range of current affairs talent in the sector.
"I also hope to encourage other factual Indies who wouldn't normally pitch to current affairs to look again and consider recent developments in the genre."
Eamon began his current affairs career at Thames TV's This Week in the late Eighties, working on investigations like Death On the Rock.
Following this, he moved to Channel 4, producing films for the RTS-winning Hard News programme.
In 1994 Eamon came to the BBC as a producer on The Money Programme and Here and Now, where he became Series Producer.
In a four-year period at Panorama he produced and directed films including the multi-award winning Who Bombed Omagh? and Licence to Murder.
Since then, he has produced films for This World and worked as Executive Producer for network production for BBC Northern Ireland.
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