BBC Three’s Man Like Mobeen returns for a third series
BBC Three and Tiger Aspect, part of Endemol Shine UK, have announced that hit comedy Man Like Mobeen will return for a third series.
Comic Relief 2019
The fun starts at 7pm as the biggest comedy party on the planet is broadcast live from Elstree Television Studios, hosted by Sir Lenny Henry, Paddy McGuinness, Emma Willis, Romesh Ranganathan, Rob Beckett, Alesha Dixon, Clara Amfo, Zoe Ball, Joe Sugg, David Tennant and other special guests.
Radio
Following the success of the first three sets of Ten Pieces, BBC Music has announced the launch of Ten Pieces Trailblazers for the 19/20 academic year.
Jonathan Dimbleby is to step down as chair of Radio 4’s political debate programme Any Questions? which he has presented since 1987.
Twenty of the world’s most outstanding classical singers are today announced for BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2019.
Drama
BBC announces commission of two further series of acclaimed drama Call The Midwife. Series eight is the highest rated returning drama across all channels in 2019. With series nine about to start filming, the show will now be on air until 2022.
Further casting announced for BBC One’s major new surveillance conspiracy thriller, The Capture.
Entertainment
Strictly Come Dancing will be waltzing back onto BBC One for its 17th series this autumn as the NTA and Bafta award-winning entertainment show made by BBC Studios returns with more sparkle, glitz and glamour than ever before.
Factual
Michelin-starred chef Angela Hartnett joins the judging panel for the second series of BBC One’s Britain’s Best Home Cook, alongside Mary Berry and Chris Bavin.
Wales
BBC Cymru Wales acquires bilingual crime thriller, Bang, set in Port Talbot on BBC One Wales.
World Service
Five years after the Maidan protests and the start of the conflict in eastern Ukraine, BBC News Russian programme BBC Debates has brought together young people from Russia and Ukraine to discuss their perceptions of freedom, of their countries, leaders and governments - and ways to get their messages through to the opposite side.
The BBC World Service is holding a series of public debates with panels of politicians and opinion formers across the world. BBC World Questions - an international series of events created with the British Council - is led entirely by questions from the audience.
In the first of its kind for the BBC, the Horn of Africa roadshow includes debates and discussions for the public to be part of and bring new content every day for audiences around the region.
The BBC News Urdu flagship TV news programme Sairbeen has changed its format and the way it looks and sounds, to better serve its diverse audiences.
Corporate
The BBC has secured over half of the total nominations for the RTS Awards, picking up 47 nominations out of a total of 81.
A new Super Movers study has demonstrated the positive effect exercise has on the learning power of children at primary school age.
Ten BBC presenters will be in Bradford next week as part of We Are Bradford, a week of stories from and about the city on the BBC.
BBC Young Reporter has announced the winners and finalists of its inaugural competition. Twelve finalists, aged between 11 and 18, have been selected from over 1,500 entries from across the UK to have their stories broadcast across the BBC.
Parents at the BBC are to receive additional maternity or paternity pay should their baby be born prematurely.
Broadcast highlights
- A Very British History: Ugandan Asians, Monday 4 March, BBC Four and BBC iPlayer
- MotherFatherSon, Wednesday 6 March, BBC Two and BBC iPlayer
- Glow Up: Britain's Next Make-Up Star, Wednesday 6 March, BBC Three and BBC iPlayer
- Still Game, Thursday 7 March, BBC Scotland and BBC iPlayer
- Comedy Club Extravaganza, Saturday 2 March, BBC Radio 4 Extra and BBC Sounds
- Cillian Murphy on 6 Music, Sunday 3 March, BBC Radio 6 and BBC Sounds
- Where’s The F In News, Thursday 7 March, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds
- Podcast Radio Hour: International Women’s Day, Friday 8 March, BBC Radio 4 Extra and BBC Sounds
