Matt Brittin: why the BBC’s new Doctor Who-loving boss may not have much time for sleep

After almost two decades at Google, the corporation’s incoming director general is taking on British media’s most powerful and treacherous job

In recent months, Matt Brittin, the Doctor Who-loving fitness fanatic and former Google executive, has made no secret of his desire to make the jump from big tech to the world of broadcasting.

At the end of last year, he told an event filled with some of television’s most senior figures that he had wanted to break into their industry “for a very long time”.