Career
He is the director of Sky Atlantic and former controller of British Broadcasting Corporation Three. Zai Bennett started his career in 1995 in the post room at Carlton Television, then worked as presentation scheduler for the launch of Channel 5 in 1997. He worked for Independent Television from 1998 in a number of roles including Head of Programme Strategy, Independent Television Digital Channels and ITV2 Programming and Acquisitions Manager.
He was Controller of ITV2 from 2006 to 2009.
In April 2010 he was appointed Independent Television"s Director of Digital Channels and Acquisitions, where he was responsible for overseeing editorial content on Independent Television"s digital channels (ITV2, ITV3, ITV4 and the CITV channel), including all commissioning and scheduling across the channels. In December 2010 the British Broadcasting Corporation announced he would become Controller of British Broadcasting Corporation Three in 2011.
In April 2014, after it was announced that British Broadcasting Corporation Three would become an online-only service, Bennett revealed he would be joining Sky Atlantic as the channel"s director
