Overview and Experience
Jay is the only person to have led BBC One, Channel 5 and Channel 4. She started her career at BBC News working on Newsnight and Panorama before becoming editor of both the One o’clock and Six o’clock News. She was Controller of BBC Daytime and Director of Programmes at Channel 5, before returning to the BBC in 2008 to run BBC One. There her commissions included Sherlock, Luther and Mrs Brown’s Boys. In 2011 she was made the first Chief Creative Officer of Channel 4.
Over the next 7 years, she led what was described as a “creative renaissance” delivering global hits from Gogglebox to Humans, Catastrophe to Hunted, First Dates to Derry Girls. In 2018 she was appointed as Creative Director for Europe for Apple TV +. In her current role, she has commissioned and delivered BAFTA nominated series Earth at Night in Colour and Tiny World as well as Apple’s first UK original comedy, Trying. She was also responsible for David Attenborough’s debut show for Apple, The Year Earth Changed.
