BBC Proms 2017
122 years since it was founded and 90 years since the BBC took over the running, financing and broadcasting of the world’s largest classical music festival, the BBC Proms announces its 2017 season.
BBC’s Minds Matter: #1in4
The #1in4 campaign, part of the BBC’s Minds Matter mental health season, aims to break through the stigma associated with mental illness and make it easier to talk about your mental health.
General Election 2017 - BBC Results Special team
The team that will present the BBC's TV election results coverage over the 8 and 9 June has been announced.
Awards
Dara Ó Briain and Angela Scanlon today announced Carbide has been crowned the champion of Robot Wars 2017.
Meanwhile, Isobel Daws, 17, who plays the trombone, took the overall BBC Radio 2 Young Brass Award for 2017 in a night of performance on Friday 21 April at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester.
Appointments
It was announced that Simon Winstone will join BBC Studios as Head of Drama - Wales.
Announcements and blogs
Drama
Walford will be welcoming back a familiar face later this year when Dean Gaffney reprises his role in BBC One's EastEndersas Robbie Jackson.
Elsewhere, BBC Two announced that Sacha Dhawan (Sherlock, Iron Fist) will play the title role of Sathnam Sanghera in The Boy With The Topknot, the critically acclaimed memoirs of his childhood in Wolverhampton in the 1980s.
Comedy
It was confirmed that Ben Elton is to give inaugural BBC comedy lecture The Ronnie Barker Talk on BBC One.
Entertainment
BBC Two has announced today that Steve Parish and Jenny Campbell will join the Dragons’ Den line-up for Series 15, on air later this summer.
The network also revealed that Mel Giedroyc will be the presenter of Letterbox, the new gameshow format created by David Young, producer of The Weakest Link and Eggheads.
Sport
BBC Sport commentator, Brendan Foster has announced his retirement.
Children's
This Spring, CBeebies welcomes three bright new stars to the channel in brand-new, live-action drama Apple Tree House.
Meanwhile, on CBBC, the Blue Petercompetition deign winner brings motivating mascots in the shape of hedgehogs and bees to the Summer of World Athletics.
Also on CBBC, it was confirmed Kimberly Wyatt will return to the Taking The Next Step judging panel.
Digital
Danger Mouse Ultimate, a new app based on one of CBBC’s most loved shows, is now available to download for free.
Radio
Rita Ora, The Chainsmokers, Lorde, Kasabian and Royal Blood have joined the line-up for BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend Hull 2017.
Meanwhile, Radio 4 confirmed that singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran will be Kirsty Young’s castaway on Desert Island Discs, when the series returns to the network on Sunday 7 May.
Regional
Author Ian Rankin is to travel back to the start of the Deacon Blue story for BBC Radio Scotland.
Blogs
Senior Commissioning Editor Steve Titherington, explained how the Creative Challenge gives BBC World Service employees the chance to make their own documentaries in Life Stories season on BBC World Service; and Fatima Salaria, the BBC’s Commissioning Editor for Religion and Ethics who took part in the first Commissioner Development Programme, meets this year's participants to talk about what they can expect in BBC welcomes talented TV professionals from diverse backgrounds to its Commissioner Development Programme.
Broadcast Highlights
Springwatch In Japan: Cherry Blossom Time
- Doctor Who, Saturday 15 April, BBC One
- Robot Wars Grand Final, Sunday 16 April, BBC Two
- My Life In Song: Carole King, Monday 17 April, BBC Radio 2
- Mind Over Marathon, Thursday 20 April, BBC One
- The Brian Matthew Story, Sunday 16 April, BBC Radio 2
- Happy Man, Thursday 20 April, BBC Three
- Hospital People, Friday 21 April, BBC One
- Springwatch In Japan: Cherry Blossom Time, Friday 21 April, BBC One
