Motsi Mabuse confirmed as new judge on BBC One’s Strictly Come Dancing
Motsi Mabuse, judge on Let’s Dance (the German version of Strictly Come Dancing) and professional dancer, has been confirmed as the new judge on BBC One’s Strictly Come Dancing.
First trailer and new images are released for BBC One’s forthcoming surveillance thriller The Capture
When soldier Shaun Emery’s conviction for a murder in Afghanistan is overturned due to flawed video evidence, he returns to life as a free man with his young daughter. Watch the trailer here.
Radio
BBC Radio 3 and BBC Concert Orchestra in partnership with the Southbank Centre and Southbank Sinfonia present BBC Radio 3’s Unclassified Live, a new series of concerts in Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall, presented by Unclassified host and presenter Elizabeth Alker and conducted by André de Ridder.
The fifth annual BBC Music Day takes place on Thursday 26 September 2019. This year’s theme is music and wellbeing, using the power of music to inspire and bring people together to make a positive impact.
Comedy
Four brand new Comedy Shorts have been announced by BBC comedy commissioning, promising an eclectic mix of comedy genres, tastes and styles. This year’s Comedy Shorts are titled: Brain In Gear, Lazy Susan, Mandy and Sorry.
Drama
Best Interests is a compelling, thought-provoking original drama from Bafta-winning writer Jack Thorne for BBC One.
Entertainment
With every great competitive reality show, comes ever increasing challenges. Thus, brothers, AJ and Curtis and MNEK join the celebrity line-up for the first ever UK series of RuPaul's Drag Race UK, applying their considerable talent and experience to help coach the queens through some testing challenges.
Factual
Actress Kym Marsh and BBC News reporter Ashley John Baptiste will seek to expose the criminals behind scams conning online daters out of tens of thousands of pounds in one of a range of new programmes unveiled for BBC One mornings.
Northern Ireland
A series of short stories adapted and narrated by the late James Ellis will be broadcast on BBC Radio Ulster as part of the Storytellers series.
Broadcast highlights
- CBeebies Bedtime Stories, Saturday 20 July, CBeebies and BBC iPlayer
- Muzlamic, Monday 22 July, BBC Three and BBC iPlayer
- Keeping Faith, Tuesday 23 July, BBC One and BBC iPlayer
- Fake Or Fortune? - The Lost Gainsborough, Thursday 25 July, BBC One and BBC iPlayer
- The History Boys, Saturday 20 July, BBC Radio 4 Extra and BBC Sounds
- The Specials, Friday 26 July, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds
- Iggy Pop, Friday 26 July, BBC Radio 6 Music and BBC Sounds
- CrowdScience: Why Do We Pull Faces When We Concentrate?, Friday 26 July, BBC World Service and BBC Sounds
