BBC promotes Tonight With Target commissioner Yasemin Rashit to BBC One portfolio editor as she reviews iPlayer and channels

EXCLUSIVE: Promoted to the BBC Tonight with Target Commissioner Yasemin Rashit to temporarily take on the role of BBC One’s portfolio editor as she “continues to assess the best form of the iPlayer and Channel team”.

Rashit will take over the position that has just become vacant for three months The traitors Developer Syeda Irtizaali, who has since become editor for Unscripted Commissioning and works closely with Kate Phillips, Director of Unscripted.

Rashit leaves her post as chief executive at BBC Three Channel, where she spent the past few years working on content strategy, partnerships and content program development in the UK. Credits include music chat show format Tonight on purpose and barber ob-doc angel of the north Rashit was an executive at BBC One Channel and was previously a freelance executive and series producer working on BBC One Awards Stephen: The Murder That Changed a NationITVs Kids Who Kill starring Susanna Reid and that of The History Channel America’s War on Drugs.

She will oversee the planning and strategy behind BBC One, a channel that loves to broadcast Come dance Happy Valley And mandatory lineeach attracts millions of viewers per episode.

Rashit takes on the role on an interim basis “while we continue to assess the best fit of the iPlayer and Channels team,” said Dan McGolpin, director of BBC iPlayer & Channels at the BBC.

McGolpin oversees strategy for all channels and iPlayer, ensuring the two work together. In 2021, the BBC embarked on one of the biggest commissioning restructures in its 100-year history, scrapping the role of channel controllers, giving genre commissioners more green-lighting powers for programs on both channels and iPlayer. The move was part of an iPlayer First strategy and has been tinkered with a few times since then.