Her success as an executive producer at Carlton led to the BBC making a bid to bring her back to their staff; she returned to the Corporation in 1997, initially as an executive producer in the Film & Single Drama department. In 1999 she became Head of Drama Serials. In these roles she commissioned and oversaw a range of dramas made or co-produced by the BBC's own drama department, from playwright Arthur Smith's football-based comedy-drama "My Summer With Des" (1998) to gritty contemporary dramas such as "Warriors" (1999, starring Matthew Macfadyen) and traditional BBC literary adaptations in the vein of "David Copperfield" (also 1999).