Round Up Week 44 (28 October - 3 November)
Hannah Khalil
Digital Content Producer, About The BBC Blog
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A round up of BBC announcements, press releases and blogs, plus some highlights from our TV, radio and online output last week.
Remembrance Week 2017
Full details of programming to mark Remembrance Week 2017 across television, radio and online with a range of original and live programming has been revealed.
Children in Need
It was confirmed that Katie Melua is to release BBC Children in Need’s official single for 2017.
100 Women
As the BBC 100 Women Challenge draws to a close, the final names on the BBC 100 Women list have been announced and the teams taking part in the challenges have revealed their suggested solutions to four problems blighting women’s lives around the world.
Announcements and blogs
Drama
More casting was confirmed this week for BBC Two's Good Omens, including Anna Maxwell Martin as ultimate demon Beelzebub alongside Lourdes Faberes, Yusuf Gatewood and Mireille Enos as the horsemen of the apocalypse.
Elsewhere, one of the UK’s most recognisable media personalities, Russell Grant, will be waltzing into the fictional village of Cwmderi to make a special guest appearance on the BBC’s longest-running TV soap Pobol y Cwm - and his lines will all be in Welsh.
Factual
Alison Kirkham, Controller, Factual Commissioning, announced a wide range of new factual titles across BBC One, BBC Two and BBC Four featuring Vicky McClure, Lucy Worsley, David Olusoga, Lenny Henry and Ed Balls.
Entertainment
On Friday it was confirmed Geri Horner will join brand new Saturday night entertainment show All Together Now as Head of The 100.
Sport
BBC Sport has announced plans to reinvent free-to-air sports broadcasting, with its biggest increase of live sport coverage in a generation.
Radio
On Monday, BBC Radio 1Xtra announced the new hosts of two Friday shows on the station - with Sian Anderson taking over the 4pm-7pm drive time slot and Radio 1’s Residency DJ, Logan Sama, taking listeners from 11pm-1am every Friday night (starting November 10).
Elsewhere, BBC Radio 6 Music announced two brand new series - Sound & Vision and The Leisure Society - featuring major names from music, film and the arts, including Russell Crowe, Sam Mendes, Tracey Emin and Goldie. Wear Your Old Band T-Shirt to Work Day 2017 also returns for the 10th year and Marc Riley’s A-Z of Punk podcast series launches.
Regional
On Monday the results of an opinion poll commissioned by BBC Wales’ new debate programme The Hour, were revealed, showing that 74% of workers in Wales say that worrying about money or work is affecting their mental health.
Meanwhile, in Northern Ireland Languages Of Ulster a new, three-part series for BBC Northern Ireland television was announced. It explores our region’s unique linguistic traditions - Ulster-Scots, Irish and northern Hiberno English - and the relationship between them.
International
On 7 November 2017, BBC World Questions heads to the University of Nairobi to host a debate on the future of Kenya.
Blogs
On the blog we celebrated Radio 4: Today at 60; Chris Price, Head of Music, BBC Radio 1 & 1Xtra provides an update on BBC Radio 1’s Brit List; plus a round up of a special screening of BBC One's Loves, Lies & Records in Leeds. Plus we published the weekly BBC iPlayer Highlights 4-10 November.
Broadcast Highlights
Bottlenose dolphins feature in the first episode of Blue Planet II
- Harry Potter - A History Of Magic, Saturday 28 October, BBC TWO
- Blue Planet II, Sunday 29 October, BBC ONE
- Louis Theroux: Talking To Anorexia, Sunday 29 October, BBC TWO
- Generation Screwed?, from Sunday 29 October, BBC THREE
- Radio 2 in Concert - Chic featuring Nile Rodgers, Monday 30 October, BBC RADIO 2
- See Hear: On Tour, Monday-Friday 30 October-3 November, BBC TWO
- George Michael: The Red Line, Wednesday 1 November, BBC RADIO 2
- Harry Styles At The BBC, Thursday 2 November, BBC ONE
