BBC eyes C4's Bell for doc job

Hilary Bell, the Channel 4 commissioning editor behind hit shows Faking It and Wife Swap, has emerged as the front runner to succeed David Mortimer as the deputy controller of the BBC's documentaries and contemporary factual group, write Leigh Holmwood and Penny Hughes

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