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New BBC season to explore the Royal Collection
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Airing on BBC Four, the four-part The Royal Collection will see Andrew Graham-Dixon visit royal residences, museums and galleries across the UK where he’ll explore a collection that includes world-famous masterpieces by Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Canaletto and unrivalled collections of exquisite drawings by Holbein and Leonardo da Vinci.
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Tomorrow’s World returns to the BBC as a year-long season of science and technology programming
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Programmes include Britain’s Greatest Invention, a live show presented from the Science Museum Group’s stores, where the public will vote for the invention they feel has had the most influence and importance in their lives, and a new medical series, Operation, which focuses on the pioneering scientific work taking place in the operating theatres of…
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John Cleese and Alison Steadman cast in new BBC One sitcom
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In Edith Steadman plays a widow for some years now for who life is pretty good. Her children live locally and drop by regularly, and she enjoys daily visits from Phil (Cleese), an old boyfriend who now lives across the road.
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BBC One’s The A Word to return this Autumn
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Filming for the second series of BBC One’s The A Word has started in the Lake District and at Manchester’s Space Project. The story picks up two years on from where we left it and Joe (Max Vento) is changing. Now age seven, he has begun to look at the world and find he doesn’t…
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BBC pledges to spend 3% of TV budget on Northern Ireland productions
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The BBC and Northern Ireland Screen have extended their partnership agreement, paving the way for returning and new dramas to be made in Northern Ireland.
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BBC and Glastonbury agree a six-year broadcast deal
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The deal means the broadcaster will remain the festival’s TV home until at least 2022, and will include the festival’s 50th anniversary year in 2020, and 2022, the BBC’s 100th anniversary year.