Doctor Who series 12 writers and directors announced
With the Thirteenth Doctor, played by Jodie Whittaker, and her friends well on their way to landing back on our screens, the next series is set to welcome an exciting host of new directors and both new and returning writers.
BBC One and Magic Light announce Zog And The Flying Doctors for Christmas 2020
Magic Light Pictures, the multi Oscar-nominated and Bafta Award-winning production company, has announced that an animated adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s children’s book Zog And The Flying Doctors, the companion title to Zog, is set to premiere on BBC One for Christmas 2020.
Radio
Kenneth Branagh, Greta Scacchi, Mark Bonnar, Ann Mitchell, Doon Mackichan, Kenneth Cranham and more star in a dark and honest account of the epic battle of Stalingrad by celebrated war reporter and author, Vasily Grossman, for BBC Radio 4.
Comedy
BBC Comedy’s Felix Dexter Bursary scheme is open to applicants until Friday 29 November.
Drama
A second series of the Balearic cop drama, The Mallorca Files, has been commissioned for BBC One Daytime and BBC iPlayer, as series one is confirmed for broadcast on Monday 25 November.
Steve Pemberton, Nina Wadia, Adrian Edmondson and Louise Brealey star in BBC One’s award-winning murder mystery hit, Death In Paradise.
Helen McCrory has been cast as the Prime Minister, Dawn Ellison, in Roadkill, a major new political thriller for BBC One, and Masterpiece on PBS, written by David Hare and produced by The Forge.
Entertainment
The Hit List, BBC One’s Saturday night music quiz in which contestants try to recognise as many hit songs and artists as possible, returns for a second series.
Facutal
The joyful and poignant new documentary series, The Baby Has Landed, lifts the lid on one of the most intense and extraordinary times in any family’s life - the arrival of a new baby.
BBC Two has commissioned factual indie Sundog Pictures to make a film with actor and comedian Tony Slattery, Whatever Happened To Tony Slattery, as he searches for a better understanding of the mental health problems he has had for the past 25 years.
BBC Films
Dominic Cooke to adapt Stephen Sondheim’s Follies for the big screen.
Northern Ireland
Emma Dunseith has been appointed as Head of Content Production for BBC Northern Ireland.
Broadcast highlights
- Novels That Shaped Our World, Saturday 9 November, BBC Two and BBC iPlayer
- His Dark Materials, Sunday 10 November, BBC One and BBC iPlayer
- Why Dad Killed Mum: My Family's Secret, Wednesday 13 November, BBC One and BBC iPlayer
- RuPaul's Drag Race UK, Thursday 14 November, BBC Three and BBC iPlayer
- Could An Ancient Athenian Fix Britain?, Monday 11 November, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds
- Destination - Fire!, Tuesday 12 November, BBC Radio 4 Extra and BBC Sounds
- Free Thinking: Being Human - Love Stories, Thursday 14 November, BBC Radio 3 and BBC Sounds
- CrowdScience: Can A Machine Read My Mind?, Friday 15 November, BBC World Service and BBC Sounds