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Tranter
Definition:
(n.) One who trants; a peddler; a carrier.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tranter also talked about the difference between a "BBC hour" without ads and a "network hour" on commercial channels such as ITV or Channel 4, or the US broadcasters that are the corporation's co-production partners, which is typically closer to 45 minutes.
(2) The BBC has confirmed that its controller of fiction, Jane Tranter , is to leave her post for a new job in the US.
(3) The BBC's head of drama, Jane Tranter, said it was "early days" for the project, which will not hit the screen until next year and is part of a wider single-drama rethink across all BBC channels.
(4) Tranter could also set up some form of drama production joint venture with BBC Worldwide herself.
(5) Sources within the BBC and externally have said that US broadcaster HBO has also been in talks with Tranter.
(6) Tranter will take joint responsibility for BBC Worldwide's North American production business in LA and New York with Paul Telegdy, the executive vice-president of content and production USA.
(7) Tranter said criticism of her department had tended to focus on the process of making drama rather than the end results.
(8) He joined the BBC as BBC Vision's head of development, independent drama, in 2005 going on to become head of drama commissioning in spring 2007, where he worked closely with Tranter.
(9) The change in thinking at the BBC follows the appointment of Stephenson to replace the long-serving Jane Tranter at the end of last year, when she moved to Los Angeles.
(10) At the time of Tranter's departure, the BBC said it would replace her with a new fiction controller - but today it conceeded that this was not going to happen.
(11) Particular attention is given to a mechanism recently proposed by Mason and Tranter whereby the weak neutral current interaction in chiral molecules leads to the differential absorption of unpolarized light by D vs. L enantiomers.
(12) Her exit, with the BBC under pressure to cut executive costs, may coincide with the dismantling of the Vision empire, echoing the demise of another shortlived corporation invention, the all-powerful "head of fiction" role, which came to an end when its former incumbent Jane Tranter left for the US at the end of 2008.
(13) One of the options said to be on offer to Tranter is to oversee the BBC Worldwide production operation in Los Angeles.
(14) After extending the usual theory of optical activity to include weak neutral currents, it is found that for spin-allowed transitions in typical organic molecules the weak photoabsorption asymmetry is much smaller than the value obtained using the reasoning of Mason and Tranter.
(15) Former BBC head of fiction, Jane Tranter, who is now executive vice president of programming and production at BBC Worldwide, based in Los Angeles, received the Bafta special award.
(16) Garvie said: "Jane Tranter is one of the most gifted television executives of her generation.
(17) Tranter will join the BBC's commercial arm BBC Worldwide as executive vice-president of programming and production, overseeing its US scripted and reality business from Los Angeles.
(18) The BBC has confirmed that it will not appoint a new controller of its fiction output - encompassing drama, film, comedy and acquisitions - following the departure of Jane Tranter at the end of last year.
(19) Stephenson, still only 33, succeeded Jane Tranter as BBC drama chief two years ago, without inheriting the wide-ranging powers she had in her now-dismantled "head of fiction" role .
(20) However, following the resurgence of BBC popular returning drama series such as Doctor Who, Spooks and Life on Mars under Tranter in the UK, BBC Worldwide is believed to be considering setting up a US drama production outfit.