New ITV Drama

Claire Skinner, Clare Higgins, Nicola Stephenson and Antonia Thomas are the Military wives and girlfriends in ITV's contemporary new drama series Homefront.　

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Antiques Roadshow Companion Experience

The BBC will launch a “guess the value” companion experience for the next series of Antiques Roadshow in September, enabling audiences to play along with the programme on their PC, tablet, mobile, or via BBC Red Button.

The companion experience, which can be played alongside the live broadcast or on demand, offers the audience the opportunity to play at expert or amateur level and choose from four value ranges for each antique item featured on the show. Audiences make their valuation against the clock, before the answer is revealed on the TV.

On PC, tablet and mobile, viewers who need help in their valuation can see what others playing along are estimating using the ‘Ask the Nation’ function. At the end of each episode, audiences receive their final score, and find out how they ranked compared to the others taking part in the experience.

The companion experience also invites audiences to explore featured antiques in the programme and the historical stories that lie behind them, with content and onward journeys crafted by Roadshow experts and the BBC production team. Audiences can enjoy this content while they watch, or ‘Favourite’ it for exploring later.

This is the BBC’s first public launch of a companion screen experience, after closed trials conducted around Secret Fortune and Frozen Planet.

Victoria Jaye, BBC Head of IPTV and TV Online Content, said: “Antiques Roadshow is a perfect series to develop a companion experience around. We’re tapping into existing audience behaviour – viewers have been shouting at their TV screens for years, guessing the value of items featured in the programme. We’re also taking viewers on a journey beyond where the broadcast programme can go, providing in-depth content about the stories and the history behind featured antiques in the programme, drawn from across BBC Online and other trusted sources. It’s a great example of how we can creatively renew our audiences’ enjoyment of watching a much cherished BBC programme.”

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Euro 2012

BBC coverage of Euro 2012 kick off on Friday June 8 led by Gary Lineker and will include 16 live games, including a potential England quarter final, both semi finals and the final.

Harry Redknapp will join Jurgen Klinsmann, Clarence Seedorf and David James in the line-up alongside regulars Alan Hansen, Alan Shearer and Lee Dixon.

Redknapp said: “I’m really looking forward to working with the BBC team again on what should be a terrific tournament.”

He will join the on-air team broadcasting from the state-of-the-art studio based at BBC Sport’s new home at MediaCityUK in Salford.

Jake Humphrey will lead the coverage from Poland and Ukraine, whilst Gabby Logan will bring all the news and updates direct from the England camp.

Philip Bernie, Head of TV Sport, said: “We are really looking forward to our top team covering the European Championships. We have an excellent line-up of talent to present and comment on all the action and hope to see England progressing as far as possible, with the BBC showing all their knockout matches live.”

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New BBC Drama

BBC Drama Production secured four new drama commissions for BBC One and BBC Three: Frankie, The Musketeers, The Lady Vanishes (BBC One) and In The Flesh (BBC Three).

Kate Harwood, Controller, Drama Series & Serials, said: “These four new commissions are a tribute to the huge range of creativity and talent within the in-house drama teams in both London and Salford.

"From a young and innovative new writer’s first television commission for BBC Three; to Adrian Hodges entirely fresh take on the classic characters in The Musketeers; to a beautiful and emotional adaptation of the novel that inspired a Hitchcock classic by Fiona Seres; through to Lucy Gannon’s Frankie, a warm and authored new show, from the doyenne of returning drama series."

Frankie, 6x60 series, created and written by Lucy Gannon for BBC One

A modern and redemptive take on the life and work of a dedicated district nurse.

The Musketeers, 10x60 series, written by Adrian Hodges  for BBC One

A fresh and contemporary take on the classic characters created by Alexandre Dumas in his much-loved novel. The Musketeers are a crack-team of highly trained soldiers.

The Lady Vanishes, 1x90 single, adapted by Fiona Seres for BBC One Christmas

From the novel ‘The Wheel Spins’ filmed by Hitchcock as The Lady Vanishes, this 1930’s thriller by Ethel Lina White has been adapted by Fiona Seres for Christmas on BBC One.

In The Flesh, 3x90 event drama, written by Dominic Mitchell for BBC Three

New writer Dominic Mitchell’s first TV commission begins after the Zombie Uprising has been quelled by the Human Volunteer Force and life is starting to return to normal. Any surviving zombies have been captured, medicated, held in an NHS holding facility in Norfolk and are being slowly re-integrated back into society, with the help of contact lenses and cover up mousse. The story follows teenager Kieran Walker and boldly goes where no zombie drama has gone before.

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Louis Walsh Returns To The X Factor

Louis Walsh is to return to The X Factor for his ninth year , ITV and producers Thames and Syco, announced today.

Walsh is the second judge to be signed up for the talent show, joining Gary Barlow whose return was confirmed last month.

He said today: "I’m back! It’s my ninth year on the show and as the only remaining original judge I’m delighted to take my seat once more on the judging panel."　

Simon Cowell added: "The show wouldn’t be the same without Louis, I am really happy he is coming back. I hope he has an opportunity this year to show what an astute manager he is."　

Peter Fincham, ITV’s Director of Television, said: "Louis is, quite simply, an X Factor institution. It's great to have him back for this year’s run."

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Blue Peter Hits The Road

The BBC has announced that Blue Peter favourites Helen Skelton and Barney Harwood will be hitting the road this summer for Blue Peter’s Big Olympic Tour – a series of live programmes and special free public events to celebrate the arrival of the Olympics in the UK.

The series (9x30 minute programmes) will be broadcast from locations around the route of the Torch Relay and will be an ultimate guide to the Olympics for children, complete with profiles of the biggest Olympic sports and interviews and master-classes with Olympic stars past and present.

The tour will visit nine locations across the UK, starting at Caerphilly on May 26. It will then call at Belfast on June 2, Dumbarton on June 9, Sunderland on June 16, Burnley on June 23, Wolverhampton on June 30, Saffron Walden on7 July 7, the Isle of Wight on July 14 and finally London on July 21.

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