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Musical eccentric and multi-instrumentalist Danny Cohen got his start circa 1961 with his punk band, Charleston Grotto. Years later, he was banned from performing the L.A. club circuit after his cult following purportedly smeared feces all over one venue's bathrooms, inspired by Cohen's chocolate pudding stage antics during a number called "Disco Diarrhea." By no means a public figure, there isn't much information available on him. Cohen performs on a few widely distributed releases of the late '60s/early '70s and on a few late-'90s releases on the N.Y.C. label Tzadik, leading two albums for their Lunatic Fringe series. He released his first record of non-archival material, Dannyland, on the Epitaph subsidiary Anti in 2004, followed by We're All Gunna Die in 2005 and Shades of Dorian Gray in 2007.
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Danny Cohen (born 1974) is the current Controller of BBC One, the BBC's flagship television channel in the United Kingdom. He is the youngest person to be appointed as Controller of the channel.
Education
Cohen attended a Jewish primary school in north London, followed by the City of London School, an independent school for boys in the City of London. Cohen attended university at Lady Margaret Hall college, University of Oxford, where he was awarded a BA Honours Double First in English Literature.
Career
Cohen's television commissions have included Call the Midwife, The Voice UK, The Inbetweeners, Skins, Supernanny, Being Human, Blood Sweat and Takeaways, Him & Her, Russell Howard's Good News and Women, Weddings, War and Me.
Between May 2007 and October 2010, he was the Controller of BBC Three.
During his tenureship of BBC Three, the channel increased its share of 16-34 year old viewers by 58% and won Digital Channel of the Year at the Edinburgh International TV Festival in two out of three years – 2008 and 2010.
His BBC Three commissions included the BAFTA nominated Blood, Sweat and T-shirts and follow-up series Blood, Sweat and Takeaways, The Undercover Princes, Britain's Missing Top Model, The World's Strictest Parents, The Adult Season, Russell Howard's Good News, Young Voter's Question Time, Stacey Dooley Investigates, Lip Service, Lee Nelson's Well Good Show , Being Human and Mongrels
Alongside these commissions, he also acquired Summer Heights High from Australia and built a strong following for U.S. animation Family Guy. He also revamped the hourly bulletins 60 Seconds adding a World News update, and hired Tasmin Lucia Khan as the face of news.
In February 2008, The Times newspaper described Cohen as "the boy wonder of British television".
In January 2009, the Royal Television Society's magazine Television wrote an article about Cohen which posed the question of whether "the 34 year-old wunderkind" would be Director General of the BBC by his early forties.
As Controller of BBC One, Cohen's commissions have included Call the Midwife, which launched as the highest rating BBC drama series for over a decade,The Voice UK, and a new BBC adaptation of Great Expectations.
Prior to this, Cohen worked at Channel 4 in the UK in various roles including Head of Documentaries, Head of Factual Entertainment and Head of E4. His television commissions at Channel 4 included the BAFTA award-winning Skins,the multi-award winning The Inbetweeners, RTS Award-winner Supernanny, Cutting Edge, The Great British UFO Hoax, The Games,and the BAFTA award-winning Fonejacker.
Personal life
Cohen is married to the economist and author Noreena Hertz.
