Blog posts by year and monthDecember 2011
Posts (8)
Top of the Pops Christmas 2011
Little Mix on Top of the Pops Christmas special Editor's Note: Mark Cooper, Creative Head, BBC Music Entertainment, writes for the About the BBC blog about Christmas at Top of the Pops. I guess Father Christmas must feel this way when he puts on the red coat and climbs into his sleigh. I am ...
BBC Big Screens in 2011
Editor's Note: Stephen Morgan, Screen Manager for BBC Big Screens in Swansea and Cardiff, writes for the About the BBC blog about memorable moments seen on Big Screens in 2011. Christmas is a time of the year when we look back and take stock of the year - and what a year it's been for BBC Big Sc...
What? No Santa?! Christmas Radio Times cover illustrations from years gone by
When the Christmas 2011 front cover of the Radio Times (below) was released to the press at the beginning of December, there was deep shock - there wasn't a Santa Claus to be seen. We live in lean times went the argument, and a well fed Santa on the front cover was considered something of an ...
It's been an 'eventful' year....
Frankenstein's wedding. Image by Ralph Petts Our new home here at MediaCityUK has gone from being a project to a creative and broadcast reality. We have moved almost two thousand people into our new buildings at the same time that many of them are building new lives for themselves in the reg...
A look back at Frozen Planet
Editor's Note: Alastair Fothergill, Frozen Planet Executive Producer, writes for the About the BBC blog about his experience on working on Frozen Planet. Frozen Planet has just finished broadcasting on BBC One, and although we have only had the final figures for the first four episodes, we know ...
Helen Skelton's new Polar challenge for Sport Relief 2012
Editor's Note: Blue Peter presenter Helen Skelton writes for the About the BBC blog, telling us about her new challenge for Blue Peter and Sport Relief 2012. Over the last few months I have snarled: "Why am I doing Sport Relief again?" Not because I'm being mean, but because I have been, at t...
Celebrating the best in diversity and creativity at the CDN Awards 2011
Tameka Epsom, from EastEnders and Cherylee Houston from Coronation Street Last night was a fantastic evening celebrating the best in creativity and diversity at the third annual Creative Diversity Network (CDN) Awards, which took place at MediaCityUK studios in Salford. As current Chair of ...
Bringing Together BBC's Corporate Websites
Today sees the launch of a refreshed version of our corporate websites, About the BBC, of which this blog is part. I have been leading the team who made the changes and I'd like to explain some of the thinking behind them. The BBC has long had websites aimed at helping audiences and licence fee...
