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Round-Up: Week 2 / 2014

Jon Jacob

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Starting this week, we're publishing a quick round-up of announcements made and blogs posted from across the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ plus some highlights of next week on TV, radio and online. Round-ups will be posted every Friday.

THIS WEEK

Head of ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ iPlayer Dan Taylor blogged about the and included some interesting figures showing that on Boxing Day views of iPlayer content via tablet overtook PC for the first time ever. More information is available over on the Internet Blog.

Also on Monday, the for was hosted at New Broadcasting House in London. The third series starts this weekend. New coach Kylie Minogue took part in the press launch hosted at New Broadcasting House and joined ‘super-coach’ Will.i.am on the sofa later in the programme’s first broadcast in its new central London home. Series 3 starts Saturday 11 January at 7.00pm on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ One and ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ One HD. ÌýÌý

– the online news service for ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ staff - reported that journalist Jonah Fisher has become the first resident correspondent in Myanmar (also known as Burma). In December 2013 Director of Global News Peter Horrocks that the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ had been given official permission to open a news bureau in the country.

received a total of , for Philomena, Saving Mr Banks, The Invisible Woman and Good Vibrations. The awards ceremony is on Sunday 16 February at the Royal Opera House in London.

The nominees for the were also announced this week. ÌýAlso in Radio and Music, 21 year old Sam Smith from Cambridgeshire was announced as the winner of .Ìý

Ìýbegan filming his first scenes onÌýDoctor Who this week, although as theÌýÌýpointed out, the picture doesn’t feature the actor in his new costume.

Finally, the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳’s coverage of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games was unveiled in a special release on the website yesterday. Ìý

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COMING UP

For the first time last year some of theÌýÌýseries were filmed. Starting on Friday 10 January, three of them will be broadcast on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Four and ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Four HD. Introduced by Radio 3 presenter Petroc Trelawny, the series is complimented by a collection of classical music treats from the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ archive. Petroc explains more on the .

Series 1 of Ìýbegins on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ One and ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ One HD. British magician Dynamo brings illusion and magic to the streets.

A new comedy series starts on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Three on Monday. One of the main characters is a complete juvenile, the other is his nephew. (We can't take the credit for that sentence - it's derived from a marketing .)Ìý airs on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Three and ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Three HD next Monday at 10pm.

Fans of competitive baking who are missing Bake Off can obtain a charitable fix in series 2 of which begins on Monday at 8.30pm on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Two and ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Two HD. Among the celebrities staring intently at their creations through the oven door glass this time around are Johnny Vaughan, Olympic long jumper Greg Rutherford and Desert Island Discs host Kirsty Young.

On the wireless, 4Extra extracts material from the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ archive to tell the story of former host of TV programme ‘What’s My Line?’ Gilbert Harding - inÌý. The programmeÌýairs on 4Extra on Saturday 11 January at 9.00am.

A three-part series of starts on Radio 4 on Thursday 16 January at 9.00pm. Produced in association with the Open University, the first episode features butcher Richard Balson whose business has been in the family for nearly 500 years.

Also on Radio 4, on Sunday 12 January at 4.30pm compiles great radio moments from Seamus Heaney’s life.

strand on the World Service this week focuses on male prostitution in London. ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ reporter Mobeen Azhar talks to male escorts based in the UK capital, men who are in high demand for their services.

Lastly, fans probably won’t need reminding, but just in case … the 3rdÌýand final episode of this series is on Sunday 12 January.

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