A round up of BBC announcements, press releases and blogs, plus some highlights from our TV, radio and online output last week.
BBC breaks records with most-streamed Winter Olympics to date
The BBC’s coverage of the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Winter Games was streamed 22.2m times across BBC Sport and BBC iPlayer, smashing the previous record of 6.2m streams for the Sochi 2014 Games.
BBC announces partnership with the Great Exhibition of the North
A raft of flagship BBC programmes will broadcast live from the Great Exhibition, showcasing the variety of events taking place in NewcastleGateshead and across the north, throughout the summer of 2018.
Announcements and blogs
Daytime
On Wedensday, Dan McGolpin, Controller of BBC Programming and Daytime, announced a number of exciting new commissions for the BBC One daytime schedule - adding to the existing factual and entertainment line-ups in 2018.
Comedy
It was confirmed that BBC One Scotland's comedy series Still Game returns for another hilarious six-part series following the adventures of lifelong friends Jack Jarvis and Victor McDade as they cope with everything modern life throws at them.
Elsewhere, BBC NI have launched new comedy series, Soft Border Patrol.
Entertainment
The press pack for BBC One's All Together Now - The Final has been published.
Factual
BBC One confirmed that 11 documentaries from across England on the art that tells our history, The Romans, slavery, silk and coal - Civilisations Stories will come to the network.
Elsewhere, BBC One and BBC Two announced two brand new science series: Life On The Ward (w/t), a two part immersive series about one of London’s biggest hospitals, King’s College Hospital, for BBC One; and a fascinating look at The Wonderful World Of Babies (w/t) for BBC Two.
Digital
This week we launched our first augmented reality app, Civilisations AR. Developed by BBC Research & Development, BBC Arts and Nexus Studios, the app features over 30 fascinating artefacts from museums across the UK that have been digitally scanned and are now available to view in 3D as part of a new virtual exhibition.
Children's
On Thursday a new interactive story narrated by actor Brian Blessed, The Best Book In The World, launched on the CBeebies Storytime app for World Book Day 2018.
Elsewhere, Blue Peter presenters Radzi Chinyanganya and Lindsey Russell are donning their trainers and taking on their very own Mile-a-thon challenge for Sport Relief 2018, running 26 individual miles with children from 26 different schools across the country.
International
BBC News Ukraine - BBC News Україна - announced it is launching its first TV programme. From Monday 26 February, the live 12-minute news bulletin will air on the Ukrainian channel, Hromadske TV, at 22.00 local time (20.00 GMT), Monday to Friday. The programme also will be available via the website bbc.ua and the BBC News Ukraine YouTube channel.
Blogs
We picked the brains of the question editors of BBC Two's devilishly difficult quiz show, Only Connect; wecelebrated World Book Day we take a look at children's storytelling TV series, Jackanory, which ran for 30 years from 1965 to 1996 and we rounded up BBC wins at the RTS Television Journalism Awards 2018. Plus we published the weekly BBC iPlayer Highlights 3-9 March.
Broadcast Highlights
John Torode and Greg Wallace return for Masterchef 2018
- Strike: Career of Evil – Sunday 25 February, BBC ONE
- Top Gear – Sunday 25 February, BBC TWO
- The First Time With...Paul Weller, Sunday 25 February, BBC 6 MUSIC
- Brain Of Britain - Monday 26 February, BBC RADIO 4
- This Country – Monday 26 February, BBC THREE
- MasterChef – Monday 26 February, BBC ONE
- The Vicar of Dibley - Monday 26 February, BBC ONE
- Civilisations - Thursday 1 March, BBC TWO
- Tones, Drones and Arpeggios: The Magic of Minimalism – Friday 2 March, BBC FOUR
