You did see the last episode of Line of Duty this week, didn't you? Of course you did. There's a link at the bottom of this post for those of you who didn't.
A round-up of BBC announcements and press releases and blogs, plus some highlights from our TV, radio and online output this week.
On Saturday, we announced Pearl Mackie will join the Doctor Who cast as The Doctor’s new companion.
The biggest music extravaganza on the planet returns this May as the Eurovision Song Contest is broadcast live from Stockholm. The BBC Eurovision team shared their plans for the show this year, including a special tribute to Terry Wogan on Saturday 14 May.
BBC Music Day returns for 2016 with Duran Duran and Laura Mvula live at Eden, Travis and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in concert, live music at 40 iconic bridges, and unique musical celebrations across the UK including a vegetable orchestra led by Shaun the Sheep.
BBC Three and BBC Worldwide have co-commissioned Extra Gear, a new Top Gear show presented by Rory Reid.
On Tuesday, BBC One announced they had commissioned The Chronicles Of Nadiya (working title), an exuberant food-inspired journey from Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya's birthplace in Luton to her family village in the north east of Bangladesh.
Aunt Polly Gray (Helen McCrory), Lizzie Stark (Natasha O'Keeffe) poised for the return of Peaky Blinders.
A new press pack featuring interviews, character biographies and cast lists for Series 3 of Peaky Blinders was published on Thursday 28 April. Also on Thursday, BBC One announced a new co-production with Netflix. a four-part animated series of Richard Adam's Watership Down set to air in 2017. BBC iPlayer performance figures for February and March were also released on Thursday.
The winners of the BBC Songs of Praise School Choir of the Year 2016 competition were revealed on Sunday's Songs of Praise programme. BBC Music introduced a series of programmes this spring exploring the music of the 19th Century across TV and radio. The Radio 2 Folk Awards were hosted this week. Winners are listed on the Media Centre website. There's also a blog post from Head of Specialist Music at Radio 2 Al Booth previewing proceedings. Catch-up on the live ceremony via BBC iPlayer.
On Wednesday, BBC Radio 1Xtra announced A.Dot as the first solo female to host 1Xtra Breakfast. And more details on Radio 1's Big Weekend in Exeter were revealed earlier this week including Rosie Lowe, Izzy Bizu, and Declan McKenna for BBC Introducing's Stage.
BBC Radio 4 will record a special edition of Mastertapes with Paul McCartney at the BBC Maida Vale studios on Wednesday 11 May. McCartney will talk to John Wilson about his music career and will answer questions from the audience.
Sticking with Radio 4, James Runcie has been appointed as the Commissioning Editor for Arts for the station. James will be responsible for the overall development of Radio 4’s arts programming, both on-air and digitally, bringing the most ambitious and creative programme ideas to Radio 4’s 10.9 million listeners. Also this week, Dominic O’Connell, Business Editor of The Sunday Times, has been appointed as the new business presenter of the Radio 4 Today Programme.
In Global News, BBC World Service programmes in French, Hausa and English will reach more listeners on FM in West Africa as BBC radio content is syndicated on Radio Nostalgie in Cameroon, Bolivar FM in Guinea, and Radio Gaskia in Niger. And on Friday we revealed how the BBC reaches a record weekly audience of 348 million people worldwide, a 13 per cent increase on last year.
On Thursday we announced a bold new diversity strategy for our on- and off-air staff. By 2020, the BBC intends to have: a workforce at least as diverse, if not more so, than any other in the industry; met stretching new portrayal targets that cover a much wider range of diversity than any other broadcaster, with a bigger impact for audiences across a wider range of programmes; and made diversity something that everyone at the BBC understands, and all those who make programmes for us support.
Director of BBC Radio Helen Boaden previewed some of the events and broadcasts planned for the Shakespeare 400 celebration.
Sunday's BAFTA Craft Awards saw BBC wins for programmes including The Hunt, The Dresser, London Spy, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, and Wolf Hall.
After news was announced about the findings of the Hillsborough Inquest earlier this week, BBC Radio Merseyside reporter Ben Schofield wrote about his experiences reporting on the story.
Director of BBC Arts Jonty Claypole announced new plans for Performance Live - 15 new performances for television - building on the success of On Stage: Live from Television Centre
And on Thursday, Mark Strippel wrote about this weekend's Asian Network Live event staged by BBC Asian Network.
Prince Harry joined 2016 UK Invictus Games Team Captain David Wiseman to talk about this year's competition to Chris Evans on BBC Radio 2 earlier this week.
Broadcast Highlights
Drama
Drama series' The A word (BBC One) which focused on the story of a boy with Autism, and popular police corruption Line of Duty (BBC Two) both concluded this week.
Documentary
On Sunday we marked the Queen's 90th birthday with a number of programmes about the monarch including Elizabeth at 90 - A Family Tribute.
Continuing the Life and Death Row series, the Love Triangle box set was made available on BBC Three on Monday.
New series exploring the mythology, history and archaeology of the Italian capital, Mary Beard's Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit began on BBC Two on Wednesday.
Yehudi Menuhin at a recording session with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at Maida Vale Studios.
And BBC Four explored the life and work of the twentieth century's greatest violinist in Yehudi Menuhin: Who Was Yehudi?
Thought-provoking Louis Theroux documentary Drinking to Oblivion(BBC Two) aired on Sunday. Also on Sunday we broadcast live coverage of the 36th London Marathon.
Also, Crossing Continents - Islamic State's Most Wanted (Radio 4) told the story of a group of young men from Raqqa in Syria who chose to resist the so-called Islamic State Radio 4
Music
There was live audio coverage of the 17th annual BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2016 (Radio 2) on Wednesday, and the full visual show was made available the day after the event on BBC iPlayer.
