{"id":8279,"date":"2016-02-10T13:19:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T18:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/richard-klein-to-depart-itv\/"},"modified":"2016-02-10T13:21:14","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T18:21:14","slug":"richard-klein-to-depart-itv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/richard-klein-to-depart-itv\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Klein to Depart ITV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Richard Klein, who has been serving as ITV&#8217;s director of factual, is leaving the broadcaster after two and a half years.<\/p>\n<p>Klein joined ITV from the BBC, where he served as controller of BBC4. He commented: \u201cIt has been a great thrill to run ITV Factual for the last two and a half years in what has been demanding times. The changing of the guard at the top provides the perfect opportunity to allow Kevin Lygo to pick his own team, and for me to move on to the next chapter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cITV is a world of entertainment and drama and its factual output is always seen in that context. Attracting large audiences to factual programming is one of television&#8217;s biggest challenges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have won some and lost some; but I am particularly proud to have commissioned shows like <em>When Ant and Dec Met the Prince<\/em>,<em> The Mafia<\/em> <em>with Trevor McDonald<\/em>, <em>100-Year-Old Drivers<\/em> and <em>Rookies<\/em>. And I am especially pleased that a show like <em>Sugar Free Farm<\/em>, which tackles serious issues, can achieve real impact in an entertaining and inspiring way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Lygo, ITV&#8217;s director of television, added: \u201cI would like to thank Richard for his contribution and wish him all the very best for the future. I\u2019m now looking forward to the next chapter in ITV\u2019s Factual story.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Richard Klein, who has been serving as ITV&#8217;s director of factual, is leaving the broadcaster after two and a half years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":479,"featured_media":8280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[423,424,425],"class_list":["post-8279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-itv","tag-kevin-lygo","tag-richard-klein","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Richard Klein to Depart ITV - TVREAL<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/richard-klein-to-depart-itv\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Richard Klein to Depart ITV - 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