Last week's leaving party for ITV's outgoing factual controller Will Smith, who's off to RDF , turned into a protest meeting in support of Jim Allen, the highest-profile casualty of the broadcaster's week of the long knives. Allen, director of entertainment and factual at ITV Studios who is expected to be made redundant, received a lengthy standing ovation from over 200 guests after his speech lauding Smith; while the latter attacked ITV bosses, asking "why don't Michael Grade, Lee Bartlett [MD,...
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