A round-up of BBC announcements and press releases and blogs, plus some highlights from our TV, radio and online output this week.
Government White Paper
On Thursday the Government published the White Paper regarding the future of the BBC. We published the Director-General's response.
Attenborough at 90
David Attenborough with Kirsty Young
A season of programmes celebrating Sir David Attenborough's 90th birthday began on Saturday and the Media Centre's Clare Bolt interviewed the naturalist, broadcaster and national treasure about his career in broadcasting.
Awards
On Sunday Graham Norton hosted the British Academy Television Awards live from the Royal Festival Hall in London, congratulations to all the winners, we collated BBC successes into a post after the awards were announced.
Eurovision 2016
In the days leading up to the Eurovision Song Contest 2016, we published three blogs about the competition:
Music Consultant to the BBC, Hugh Goldsmith shared his overview of Eurovision.
BBC Radio Humberside's David Reeves learned that the first UK Eurovision entry came from Hull, he decided to find out more, and it led to a new documentary for the station called Hull's Song for Europe.
Dan Shipton with the UK Eurovision antry for 2016, Joe and Jake
We interviewed the BBC's creative director for the UK Eurovision entry, Dan Shipton about how he got the role and what it has involved in working with Joe and Jake this year.
Announcements
TV
BBC Newsnight appointed new Business Editor, Helen Thomas.
Springwatch and Springwatch Unsprung return to RSPB Minsmere and to our screens from May 30th. To accompany the series, live wildlife action will also be broadcast from 5am to midnight on the Springwatch website and BBC Red Button.
Media Centre published media packs for Euro 2016 coverage and Nick Hornby’s fictionalised television adaptation of Nina Stibbe’s bestselling book Love, Nina.
Digital
On Saturday, Director of Homepage & myBBC, Phil Fearnley gave us a progress update on myBBC one year on from it's launch.
Partnerships
The BBC and Tate Britain announced on Thursday that the BBC will be the new broadcast partner for the prestigious Turner Prize 2016.
BBC Regions
Director of BBC Academy and BBC Birmingham Joe Godwin announced a package of measures that will build on the Corporation’s existing £125m investment in Birmingham by making the city the dual base for BBC Three.
Also, David Holdsworth, Director of English Regions explained how partnership plans announced on Thursday represent a new commitment by the BBC to local news.
Broadcast Highlights
Benedict Cumberbatch stars in The Hollow Crown
On Saturday The Hollow Crown, a season of Shakespeare's history plays began on BBC Two. Also on BBC Two this week, Ben Elton took an irreverent look at where Shakespeare's inspiration may have come from in Upstart Crow, and in a break away from Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe, Philomena Cunk delved shallow into the life of "the playwriter they call the King of the Bards" in Cunk on Shakespeare.
On Sunday, BBC Two airedHillsborough, a moving account of Britain's worst sporting disaster.
On Monday BBC One broadcast the opening ceremony of the second Invictus Games, from Orlando, Florida, coverage of the competition for injured, sick and wounded service personnel continued throught the week.
The Hairy Bikers returned on Tuesday with Old School a new series which pairs up pensioners and teenagers in the kitchen
Nature's Epic Journeys on BBC One on Wednesday followed individual Elephants day by day - Wed http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07bkhqs
BBC Three's Rest In Pixels took a look at what happens to the digital representations of ourselves when we shuffle off this mortal coil.
And new comedy on BBC Two from the writer of Him & Her began on Friday. Mumfollows Cathy (Lesley Manville) as she moves on from the death of her husband.
Emile Zola's Blood, Sex and Money on Radio 4
Throughout the week Radio 4 broadcast a serialisation of all 20 novels in Emile Zola's epic Rougon-Macquart family saga, Blood Sex and Money.
During his shows on Radio 2, Jeremy Vine aired people's stories of coping with conditions including anorexia, bipolar disorder, depression and self-harm during Mental Health Week.
Sunday on the Asian Network, renowned Bollywood star shared some of the music that inspired her throughout her 30 year career in Madhuri Dixit Presents.
And on Wednesday we heard The Swedish Ambassador's Guide to Eurovision on BBC World Service.
