Zoe Ball is the new host of the BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show
A round up of BBC announcements, press releases and blogs, plus some highlights from our TV, radio and online output from the last week.
Zoe Ball new host for BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show
She will start in January 2019, following Chris Evans’ announcement last month that he is leaving the UK's most listened to radio programme in December, after eight years hosting the Radio 2 Breakfast Show and 13 years on the station.
Line Of Duty: Stephen Graham as Balaclava Man for series five
The Taboo and This Is England actor will play John Corbett alongside Rochenda Sandall (Girlfriends, Broken) as Lisa McQueen - two pivotal figures in a deadly organised crime group known to have links with corrupt police officers.
Announcements and blogs
Drama
Hit drama Keeping Faith / Un Bore Mercher has been commissioned for a second series is and in production. Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger are set to return for a brand new four-part drama in the Strike series, the hit BBC One shows based on J.K. Rowling’s best-selling crime novels written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. New drama, as well as comedy and documentary, commissions have been announced by BBC Northern Ireland.
Entertainment
Take That will celebrate their 30th anniversary with a BBC One programme later this year, while a host of new BBC One Daytime series presented by Nick Knowles, Catherine Fulvio, Paul Ainsworth and Matt Allwright and others have been announced for the winter. Fearne Cotton will also present a new BBC Two interior design competition series, titled Project Interiors.
Sport
In its 65th year, BBC Sports Personality Of The Year will introduce a range of new and exciting changes to voting and categories, including that contenders for the main award being revealed on the night, and the public to decide the Greatest Sporting Moment of the Year. Tickets go on sale on 12 October.
Radio
Charlie Sloth is stepping down from BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra after nearly a decade as a presenter, while Jonathan Sumption was unveiled as the 2019 Reith Lecturer for BBC Radio 4.
World Service
The She Word, a new BBC TV discussion programme for Africa, launched on 29 September, to explore the life experiences of women. The show is being hosted by contributors from across the continent, and is broadcast on partner stations in Kenya; Liberia; Malawi; Namibia; Nigeria; Sierra Leone; Uganda and Zambia. Talk It Out is another weekly TV discussion programme for Africa, focusing on health, food and lifestyle issues, which started this week.
Blogs
This weeks' blogs were: 1 year anniversary for Indian languages; Working with babies, Noah and Oliver; plus the weekly BBC iPlayer Highlights 6-12 October 2018.
Broadcast highlights
Drowning In Plastic picks up where Blue Planet II left off; presented by wildlife biologist Liz Bonnin
- Drowning In Plastic, Monday 1 October, BBC ONE and BBC iPlayer
- The Cry, Sunday 30 September, BBC ONE and BBC iPlayer
- George Shelley: Learning To Grieve, Sunday 30 September, BBC THREE and BBC iPlayer
- The Cod Wars Revisited, Tuesday 2 October, BBC RADIO 4 and iPLAYER RADIO
- The Weekend Documentary: The Children Of Belsen, Wednesday 3 October, BBC WORLD SERVICE and iPLAYER RADIO
- Friday Night Is Music Night, Friday 5 October, BBC RADIO TWO and iPLAYER RADIO
- Slow Radio - A European Industrial Landscape, Friday 5 October, BBC RADIO THREE and iPLAYER RADIO