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Katie Taylor has been named the new Head of Entertainment & Events at BBC Productions. With this appointment Taylor becomes the first woman to run the in-house entertainment department at the BBC.

She will be responsible for some of the UK's most watched and loved entertainment, factual entertainment and events formats including Strictly Come Dancing, Eurovision, Top Gear, Dragons' Den and events such as Children in Need and Sport Relief. She will take up her role later in the spring.

Taylor is currently the Executive Editor for Comedy Entertainment where she is involved in the strategy, inception and production of new formats for all four BBC channels. She also commissions and executive produces over 100 studios a year involving multi-award-winning chat shows, panel shows, archive shows and events.

Prior to her current role in Entertainment Commissioning at the BBC, Taylor was a Commissioning Editor in Entertainment at Channel 4. She has also served as the Deputy Commissioning Editor at Channel 4.

Previously Taylor worked as a researcher/associate producer and producer on shows ranging from Comic Relief, Don't Forget Your Toothbrush, Challenge Anneka, Bafta Awards, Noel's House Party, Going For Gold, to name but a few.