10 Facts About Jane Tranter

Pauline Jane Tranter was born on 17 March 1963 and is an English television executive who was the executive vice-president of programming and production at BBC Worldwide's Los Angeles base from 2009 until 2015.

Jane Tranter quickly caught the eye of producer David M Thompson, who promoted her to act as script editor on the anthology drama series Screen One and Screen Two, essentially the same programme whose title changed depending on whether it was being screened on BBC One or BBC Two, with the transmission channel varying depending on content and tone of the dramas produced.

At Carlton, Jane Tranter oversaw the Timothy Spall comedy-drama Frank Stubbs Promotes and the Victorian-era medical drama Bramwell, both of which were hits for ITV.

Jane Tranter oversaw the transformation of popular dramas Casualty and its spin-off Holby City into year-round dramas, the addition of a fourth weekly episode to soap opera EastEnders and the highly successful resurrection of classic science-fiction series Doctor Who in 2005.

In September 2006, Jane Tranter was promoted to the newly created Head of Fiction position at the BBC.

Jane Tranter began her new job as executive vice-president of programming and production at BBC Worldwide's Los Angeles base on 1 January 2009.

Jane Tranter was named Bad Wolf in homage to a Doctor Who storyline.

Jane Tranter has since gone on to produce shows like His Dark Materials and A Discovery of Witches.

Jane Tranter continues to work as a producer outside of Bad Wolf.

Jane Tranter was an executive producer on the HBO hit Succession, which was awarded a Peabody in 2019.