Round up Week 35 (26 August - 1 September)
Jen Macro
Digital Content Producer, About the BBC
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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.
Radio 3 Autumn Season
On Wednesday, BBC Radio 3 controller Alan Davey unveiled new commissions across the music and culture station, including Slow Radio commissions, special seasons, new programmes, schedule changes and a presenter reshuffle.
League Of Gentlemen
Having confirmed last week that BBC Two would broadcast three special 20th anniversary episodes of the cult hit comedy it was unveiled that filming will begin on the specials next month in Manchester and the Peak District, with Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton and Mark Gatiss, who have written the shows alongside co-creator Jeremy Dyson.
Announcements and blogs
Drama
On Tuesday we published the media pack for the eagerly awaited second series of Doctor Foster which starts on BBC One on Tuesday 5 September at 9pm.
Also on Tuesday we published an interview with JK Rowling (on behalf of Robert Galbraith) about Strike - A Cuckoo's Calling, and on Thursday the Strike - Silkwormmedia pack went live.
On Friday, Christopher Eccleston and Paula Malcomson were confirmed to star in Danny Brocklehurst's new BBC One drama, Come Home.
Entertainment
BBC One announced All Together Now, a brand new six-part entertainment format for Saturday nights hosted by comedian Rob Beckett.
World Service
From Monday 4 September, the BBC Uzbek news bulletins will be broadcast on Arezo TV between 18.00 and 18.10 local time, Monday to Friday. The launch is part of the biggest expansion of the World Service since the 1940s.
Blogs
On Saturday, we celebrated 'National Dog Day' with a round up some of our favourite BBC pooches and canine related shows in Pedigree talent; we also published BBC iPlayer Highlights 2-8 September; and on Friday marked Relaunching a British Icon: BBC Studioworks Re-Opens Television Centre Studios.
Broadcast Highlights
Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger in 'Strike - The Cuckoo's Calling'
- Festival Tales: Edinburgh At 70, Saturday 26 August, BBC TWO
- CBeebies Bedtime Story, Saturday 26 August, CBEEBIES
- Diana, 7 Days, Sunday 27 August, BBC ONE
- Strike - The Cuckoo's Calling, Sunday 27 & Monday 28 August, BBC ONE
- Gluck - Who Did She Think He Was? Sunday 27 August BBC FOUR
- Edinburgh International Festival 2017 - Usher Hall Closing Concert, Monday 28 August, BBC RADIO 3
- imagine… Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned! Monday 28 August, BBC ONE
