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Round up week 33 (12-18 August)

Hannah Khalil

Digital Content Producer, About The BBC Blog

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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.

Children in Need rocks the 80s

On Thursday 19 October 2017, the BBC will stage BBC Children In Need Rocks The 80s, a very special fundraising concert at The SSE Arena, Wembley celebrating the decade in which BBC Children in Need’s first major appeal took place.

Awards

Australian comedian Heidi Regan has been announced as the winner of the BBC New Comedy Award 2017.

Radio 1Xtra

BBC Radio 1Xtra celebrated its 15th anniversary on Wednesday August 16 2017 and marked the day with special guests, highlights from the archive and a journey through the best in black and urban music from over the years.

Announcements and blogs

Drama

On Tuesday BBC Two announced it will broadcast the critically acclaimed stage production of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, directed Robert Icke and starring Andrew Scott (Sherlock, Birdland, Pride).

Also on Tuesday the media pack for Strike - The Cuckoo's Calling a new BBC One mini-series adapted from the books by JK Rowling (written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith) was published. 

In addition, Michael Sheen, OBE and David Tennant have been confirmed to star in Good Omens, a six-part humorous fantasy drama, for Amazon and BBC Two.

On Friday, BBC One announced that two epic eight-part drama series have been commissioned: The Three - a multi-stranded, international thriller based on the trilogy of books, and The Serpent, based on the phenomenal true story of how one of the most elusive criminals of the 20th century was finally caught and brought to trial.

Also on Friday, BBC Two announced it has acquired second instalment of anthology series American Crime Story.

Comedy

Entertainment

This week more celebrities were confirmed for the new series of Strictly Come Dancing 2017: Holby City's Joe McFadden; chef and co-presenter of Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch Simon Rimmer; singer and songwriter from JLS, Aston Merrygold; Scottish comedian Susan Calman; and comedian Brian Conley.

Elsewhere, BBC One's Songs Of Praise announced that JB Gill is to join presenting team.

Factual

BBC Two confirmed this week that the popular Back In Time strand will return to BBC Two, with Sara Cox and social historian Polly Russell hosting as a family of five head Back In Time For Tea in Bradford.

Meanwhile on Tuesday, BBC Three announced a brand new series Croatia 2017: The Brits Are Coming.

iPlayer

In The Dark and EastEnders topped the BBC iPlayer charts in July, new figures released on Friday reveal.

Radio

On Friday, BBC Radio 4 announced an array of new comedy commissions from the network’s Commissioning Editor for Comedy Sioned Wiliam, expected to air in 2018/19.

Regional

Keeley Donovan, BBC Look North (Yorkshire) presenter, will host the regional current affairs programme Inside Out, when it returns to BBC One Yorkshire & Lincolnshire in September.

International

On Tuesday, the Director of the BBC World Service called on the Iranian authorities to reverse a new order which appears effectively to freeze the assets of BBC staff in Iran.

Blogs

Matthew Barraclough, Editor BBC Journalism Working Group, outlined Key milestones in the Local News Partnership project; we published the BBC iPlayer Highlights 19-25 August; and BBC Russian presenter Juri Vendik, shares the discoveries he made while filmingThe Train From Zurich To The Revolution a BBC Russian documentary exploring Germany’s role in Lenin’s 1917 return to revolutionary Russia.

Broadcast Highlights

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