Fiona Wickham
Editor, BBC TV blog
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It’s goodnight from us
After six years of taking you behind-the-scenes on BBC TV favourites, the Love TV blog bids farewell.
Even more favourite Strictly quotes: The final approaches...
Greedy dancers, bionic bums and pigeon toes - it's all being said on Strictly Come Dancing.
James Martin’s Home Comforts at Christmas: Just yum
Maybe you're nervous about hosting Christmas dins... or maybe you just like watching some masterful, appetising cooking...
Cutting quips and quicksteps: 24 favourite quotes from this year’s Strictly
This weekend is the Blackpool high point of the series - so let's savour the choicest comments from the series so far.
Silk: Maxine Peake on playing Martha
Series two of Silk opens on BBC One tonight, with Martha Costello now a QC. Actress Maxine Peake answered our questions about the return of the courtroom drama. How has Martha's character developed in series two? I don't know whether Martha has developed much as a character as we seem to ...
Birdsong: Interview with the director
Sebastian Faulks' World War I novel Birdsong is about "the violence of a love affair, and exquisite love in war", says screenwriter Abi Morgan, who has adapted the modern classic for BBC One. Director Philip Martin told the BBC TV blog about the experience of making the two-part drama. Wha...
Ab Fab: A minute with June Whitfield and Joanna Lumley
Twenty years after the first broadcast, Absolutely Fabulous is back on BBC One on Christmas Day - in the first of three 30-minute special episodes. June Whitfield and Joanna Lumley had a brief moment to answer some questions about the new series, written by and starring Jennifer Saunders. ...
Outside The Court: Filming the stories behind the court cases
Film-maker Marc Isaacs spent three months on the steps outside Highbury and Islington Magistrates' Court in London, talking to the people who were coming in and out. The result is Outside The Court, a documentary that is part of BBC Four's Justice season. Marc told the BBC TV blog about how h...
The all new BBC blogs homepage
I knew the BBC had a very decent range of blogs coming from news, radio, TV and more - but it surprised me to know there's actually almost 300 of them from - from Zane Lowe to Formula 1 to The Archers. The BBC blogs homepage has just been relaunched so that it showcases all the blogs all th...
Eric & Ernie: A minute with Jim Moir
Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves) and Victoria Wood star as Eric Morecambe's parents in the one off drama, Eric & Ernie. Victoria Wood is also the executive producer of the programme. It was her idea to focus the story on the pair's boyhood friendship when they were child performers in variety shows...
Strictly Come Dancing in 3D for Children in Need - new behind the scenes video
If you count yourself a fan of Strictly Come Dancing, then have a look at the Strictly blog today. Flavia Cacace is performing a specially choreographed Argentine Tango Unleashed - and the BBC experimented by filming it in 3D. Flavia's dance was made into a trailer, which will be...
Web highlights: BBC One HD launch and BBC Children's mission
The BBC One HD channel launches with the One Show at 7pm tonight and in a specially made short video, Danielle Nagler, the head of BBC HD gets access to the BBC One control room, from where the channels are broadcast. It's the most reactive playout room in the world - when a news st...
Lord Alan Sugar on the new series of The Apprentice
Lord Sugar, could you tell us how the candidates were recruited for series six of The Apprentice? How involved you were in the process? As always, aspiring candidates were encouraged to apply via the BBC website. The most impressive applicants are then invited to the interview process at whic...
Mary Berry: Judging The Great British Bake Off
The Great British Bake Off, presented by Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins, sees 10 homebakers testing their skills in the kitchen to be named top amateur baker at the end of the series. Expert baker and author Mary Berry spoke to the BBC TV blog about her role as one of the two series judges. ...
Goran Visnjic: Filming underwater drama The Deep with James Nesbitt
Croatian actor Goran Visnjic (who played Dr Luka Kovac in ER) spoke to the BBC TV blog about his role in the new drama, The Deep, which is set on a submarine. How would you describe Samson, your character in The Deep? He's a marine biologist and he's part of this team that is going to do r...
Danielle Lineker on My New Stepfamily
Lingerie model Danielle Lineker (neé Bux) was a single mother to one small daughter until she married Gary in 2009, and became a stepmother to his four teenage sons - the eldest being only 12 years younger than her. Danielle talked to me about making the BBC Three documentary, My New Stepfami...
Boy George: What I thought of Worried About The Boy
Worried About The Boy is a new one off drama about Boy George's late teenage years. The story begins before he was famous, and tells the story of him leaving home in the suburbs and becoming a leading figure on the New Romantic club and fashion scene. It leads all the way up to him starting Cult...
Snog Marry Avoid
Hello everyone There's a very interesting letter published on the Guardian website, from BBC Three's Snog Marry Avoid's executive producer, Gill Wilson. Gill's answering criticism from Radio 4 presenter Libby Purves who said the BBC should invest in intelligent programmes and stop "frettin...
What is the BBC for?
Hello. I'm the editor of the new BBC TV blog. I'll be writing here from time to time though as you can see, it's mostly controllers of the channels, commissioners and executive producers who post on this blog. I'll also be asking scriptwriters and occasionally, actors and presenters to tell t...
