Lorraine Heggessey

Quick Facts

Full Name	Lorraine Heggessey
Occupation	Television Producer
Date Of Birth	Nov 16, 1956(1956-11-16)
Age	68
Birthplace	London Borough of Hillingdon
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Scorpio

Lorraine Heggessey Biography

Lorraine Heggessey is one of the most popular and richest Television Producer who was born on November 16, 1956 in London Borough of Hillingdon, England, United Kingdom.

In 1978 she applied for a BBC News traineeship, but was rejected without an interview. She then worked voluntarily in hospital radio and gained a paid job on a local newspaper, before re-applying for the BBC traineeship the following year, this time successfully. She spent the next fifteen years working in current affairs programming in television.

By the early 1980s she had become a producer on the BBC’s flagship current affairs series Panorama, before she left the staff of the BBC to join Thames Television’s This Week, broadcast on the rival ITV network. She then moved on again, this time to the small independent production company Clark Productions, for whom she worked on Channel 4’s current affairs programme Hard News. In the early 1990s, she and the film director Ken Loach collaborated on an edition of Hard News which investigated the treatment of trade unionist leader Arthur Scargill by The Daily Mirror newspaper and investigative journalist Roger Cook.

Lorraine Heggessey Net Worth

Lorraine Heggessey is one of the richest Television Producer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Lorraine Heggessey 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Lorraine Sylvia Heggessey (born 16 November 1956) is a British television producer and executive. She is notable as having been, from 2000 until 2005, the first woman to be Controller of BBC One, the primary television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation. She has also served as the Chief Executive of the production company Talkback Thames. Heggessey is now the Chief Executive of The Royal Foundation.

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In 1999 she was promoted to Director of Programmes and Deputy Chief Executive of the BBC’s in-house production arm, BBC Production, responsible for supervising in-house output across all the various genres. She was in this role for little over a year however before she was promoted to Controller of BBC One, a post she took up on 1 November 2000. In this position she was responsible for co-commissioning the channel’s output with the various heads of department — drama, news, etc. — and deciding the channel’s overall strategy and schedule. She had previously been sounded out about the job in 1997, after Michael Jackson’s departure, but had turned down the opportunity as she felt she was then not yet experienced enough.

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Yukina Ranked on the list of most popular Television Producer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Lorraine Heggessey celebrates birthday on November 16 of every year.

In 2002, Heggessey took the decision to abandon the traditional “Globe” idents the channel had used in a variety of forms for its between-programme idents since 1963. They were replaced by a new style of on-air identity for the channel, the “Rhythm & Movement” idents. The new idents attracted some criticism for going against the traditions of the channel and pandering to political correctness, as they featured activities performed by people of various ethnicities.