Ten things from this week
³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Television Centre in London, photographed on Friday 17 August 2012.
This is the first in a regular series of posts rounding-up news, blogs, pictures and videos from about the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ over the past week, looking back on past events and highlighting forthcoming output.
1. Olympics Wrap-Up
At the beginning of the week, the %3Ca%20href="%3Ca%20href="/mediacentre/latestnews/2012/olympic-viewing-figs.html">Media Centre website released viewing figures from across the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s Olympics coverage, confirming the Games as the biggest national TV event ever. Read more here.
The ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Internet Blog ran a series of wrap-up posts post-Olympics output. %3Ca%20href="/blogs/bbcinternet/2012/08/digital_olympics_reach_stream_stats.html">Head of Product for ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Sport and London 2012 Cait O' Riordan includes statistics for online and red button streams. Senior Technical Architect Matthew Clark wrote about the technical strategy he and his team adopted to produce the wealth of digital Olympics products the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ offered, and Head of Core Services %3Ca%20href="/blogs/bbcinternet/2012/08/audio_video_stream_olympics_tech.html">Marina Kalkanis revealed how audio and video streams were maintained during the sixteen days of the Games.
Over on the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Sport Editors' blog, Ben Gallop explains how post-Olympics, what the next steps are for %3Ca%20href="/blogs/sporteditors/2012/08/record_breaking_viewing_figure.html">³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Sport online.
2. New series of Our War on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Three
Our War returns for a second series on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Three on Monday 20 August at 9.00pm. %3Ca%20href="/blogs/aboutthebbc/2012/08/making-the-second-series-of-bb.shtml">Executive Producer Colin Barr explained how the programme was made in a special interview for the About the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Blog.
3. ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio 3 broadcasts 4'33" of 'silence'
Special measures (pictured above) were put in place to stop the Radio 3's emergency automatic playback for a %3Ca%20href="/proms/whats-on/2012/august-14/14208">late night performance of John Cage's 4'33" silence, part of the 2012 ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Proms season. %3Ca%20href="/proms/">Listen to the entire concert via the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Proms website. The season runs until Saturday 8 September.
4. Radio 1 Xtra's 10th Birthday
%3Ca%20href="a%20href="/1xtra/">Radio 1Xtra started ten years ago this week. The ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio blog shared a series of birthday messages. %3Ca%20href="/programmes/b01lmpw5">The station celebrated with a special playlist. Jem Stone from Audio and Music Interactive, pulled together tweets, pictures and video from the day in a special %3Ca%20href="https://storify.com/jemstone/1xtra-s-10th-%0A%0Abirthday">Storify.
5. Doctor Who Asylum of the Daleks premiere at the BFI
The new series of Doctor Who starts soon on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ One and ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ HD. Executive Producer Caro Skinner took over the Doctor Who Twitter account on the day of the premiere of the first story Asylum of the Daleks, and %3Ca%20href="https://bit.ly/Oml3qe">she kept a tight grip on the tape. Watch a behind-the-scenes video from the premiere below.
Earlier in the week ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio 5 Live's %3Ca%20href="https://twitter.com/richardpbacon">Richard Bacon questioned executive producer Steven Moffat about %3Ca%20href="https://audioboo.fm/boos/920436-steven-moffat-talks-about-%0A%0Adavid-tennant">the possibility of multiple Doctors appearing in the 50th anniversary drama written by Mark Gatiss %3Ca%20href="/mediacentre/latestnews/2012/doctor-who-50.html">planned for next year.
6. Grab your pinny
Sue, Mel, Mary and the Silver Fox returned to our screens with the third series of %3Ca%20href="/iplayer/episode/b01m2b1b/The_Great_British_Bake_Off_Series_3_Episode_1/">Great British Bake Off.
Cookery writer %3Ca%20href="/programmes/b01l5pll">Mary Berry's recent appearance on Desert Island Discs is available via the programme's online archive.
7. Comedy at the Edinburgh Fringe Live
Edinburgh Fringe and ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Three are hosting a mammoth night of live comedy via Red Button on Friday 17 August featuring more than 40 Edinburgh Fringe Comedy Festival acts. %3Ca%20href="/mediacentre/latestnews/2012/comedy-marathon.html">More information on the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Media Centre website.
8. A change for Radio 1 Breakfast Show jingles
Ahead of Nick Grimshaw's new breakfast show starting on 24 September, information emerged about Radio 1's new direction for breakfast show jingles. %3Ca%20href="https://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9744000/9744918.stm">Former Radio 1 DJ Tony Blackburn talked to Today's Sarah Montague about it, reminding listeners about Radio 2's new package of jingles.
9. The Best Of Men
%3Ca%20href="/blogs/tv/2012/08/best-of-men-paralympics-drama.shtml">The inspiring story of how Dr Guttmann's work rehabilitating World War II soldiers that led to the creation of the Paralympics. Cast
member David Proud shares his experience of acting in the drama on the %3Ca%20href="/blogs/tv/2012/08/best-of-men-paralympics-drama.shtml">³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ TV blog. Scriptwriter Lucy Gannon throws light on the writing
process on the %3Ca%20href="/blogs/writersroom/posts/The-Best-of-Men-">³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Writersroom blog.
10. Time-lapse video from the Olympic Park
Finally, take two and a half minutes to watch %3Ca%20href="https://vinnyverse.tumblr.com/post/29456917826/london-2012-a-days-view-from-lund-point-a-day">Duncan McLean's beautiful time-lapse video shot during the Olympics featuring behind the scenes shots of the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s Olympic studio in Stratford. %3Ca%20href="https://twitter.com/Imeldaflattery/status/235841335989526528">Thanks to ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ 2012 producer Imelda Flattery for the heads up.
Jon Jacob is Editor of the About the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Blog.
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