BBC Worldwide buys scoop of Plain Vanilla

Monkey was interested to see that along with filing the accounts which revealed Jeremy Clarkson made £800,000 out of Top Gear sales last year, BBC Worldwide also disclosed it paid £750,000 for a 25% stake in Doc Martin creator Dominic Minghella's production company Plain Vanilla . Plain Vanilla's forthcoming shows include adaptations of Ann Cleves's Shetland Quartet series. Accounts filed at Companies House show that a holding company for BBC Worldwide's stake made an investment of £750,000 in Minghella's indie. Someone at Worldwide obviously has a sense of humour. The name for the holding company for Plain Vanilla is Mini Milk.