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Round-Up Week 24 (11-17 June 2016)

Hannah Khalil

Digital Content Producer, About The BBC Blog

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Red Rock comes to BBC Daytime

A round-up of BBC announcements and press releases and blogs, plus some highlights from our TV, radio and online output last week.

Make Your Move

This summer BBC Sport’s Get Inspired is urging people across the UK to get moving. New campaign Make Your Move is packed with a range of challenges aimed at encouraging those who want to be more active to get involved and make a change.

24 Hour Shakespeare

On the longest day of Shakespeare’s 400th anniversary year- 20 June, the Summer Solstice – Shakespeare Lives, a six-month online festival, co-curated by the BBC and the British Council to mark the 400th anniversary of the death of the Bard, goes round the clock and round the globe using the time references in Shakespeare’s plays and Sonnets.

World War One Anniversary

As part of the BBC’s World War One Season, the BBC will broadcast a series of live programmes to mark the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, on 30 June and 1 July.

Announcements

Drama

It was announced that Matt Lucas is to join Peter Capaldi and Pearl Mackie for Doctor Who series 10. Elsewhere a press pack was published for award-winning Irish drama series Red Rock that is coming to BBC Daytime.

Comedy

Earlier this year, it was announced that BBC Comedy would bring the first ever televisual adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Decline And Fall, one of the greatest comic novels of all time, to BBC Two, now Jack Whitehall, David Suchet and Eva Longoria are confirmed to star in the series.

Two recommissions were announced: Ben Elton’s Upstart Crow and Mum are both set to return for second series on BBC Two.

Factual

Patrick Holland, BBC Head of Commissioning, Documentaries, announced a range of new documentary commissions from acclaimed directors and producers, including Brian Woods, Simon Dickson, Lorraine Charker-Phillips, Steve Humphries and Darren Kemp. While BBC Daytime has recommissioned Countryfile Diaries for three more series.

BBC Four revealed it will take viewers into the laboratories Inside Porton Down on its 100th anniversary

The winner of the UK’s Best Part Time Band was announced as Edinburgh-based ska band Bombskare.

Entertainment

BBC One confirmed its brand new Saturday night entertainment show Let It Shine (working title) in conjunction with Gary Barlow and presented by Graham Norton and Mel Giedroyc.

Children's

CBBC unveiled Scream Street Bites - five short animations based on CBBC’s Scream Street that have been produced in partnership with animation production company Factory and international media group and rights holders Coolabi, and we embedded the shorts in an About the BBC blog.

Meanwhile, CBeebies and FremantleMedia Kids & Family announced Bitz & Bob - a ground-breaking big, new comedy adventure for preschoolers with a twist, due to air in 2017.

Music

BBC Music announced that its My Generation season – telling the story of pop music - reaches the Sixties with a raft of programmes to air in July.

Radio

BBC Radio 4 announced that philosopher and cultural theorist Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah will be the BBC Reith Lecturer for 2016. He will be followed by author Dame Hilary Mantel who will deliver the prestigious Reith Lectures in spring 2017.

BBC Radio 3 announced that it will continue its commitment to world and roots music with a series of broadcasts from WOMAD, the leading annual festival of world music. In addition the network the first two music commissions have been announced as part of BBC Radio 3’s special patronage of the arts to mark the 70th anniversary of the BBC’s Third Programme.

Meanwhile, Radio 2  announced the full line-up for one of the summer’s hottest festivals – BBC Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park - which takes place on Sunday 11 September in Hyde Park, London.

Digital

BBC Online attracted record-breaking digital figures for the home nations Euro 2016 clash between England and Wales with 2.3m unique browsers watching online, while a peak audience of 9.3m million people (73 per cent share) tuned in on BBC One.

Blogs

Key blogs on About the BBC this week include an interview with Euan Doak Remembering the Manchester Bomb; Producer Jessica Rickson's starry behind-the-scenes look at The Tony Awards 2016 with Elaine Paige on Radio 2; Producer Emily Dicks on how the BBC Radio 1Xtra spoken word project Words First has given a whole new wave of writers unique opportunities to create, develop and perform to thousands of people, in Putting the Words First; and BBC Comms trainee Shamima Debar's first blog for us: BBC Africa commemorates 40th Anniversary of Soweto Uprisings.

Broadcast Highlights

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