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BBC reveals first-look pictures for new drama Dope Girls

Michael Duke as Eddie Cobb and Umi Myers as Billie Cassidy sit together, looking serious, in front of cracked mirrors indoors. Billie has her arm propped on Eddie's shoulder

The show centres around the clubs and nightlife of 1918 Soho. Men are returning from World War I, and finding women back home far more independent than when they left them.

Each of the six episodes follows all types of people caught in the tangle of clubland. There’s single mum Kate Galloway, played by Julianne Nicholson (Mare of Easttown), who sets up a nightclub to provide for her daughter, Evie (Eilidh Fisher). Billie Cassidy (Umi Myers) is a dancer, whose life is turned upside down by Kate.

Two new Nordic noirs to be added to BBC iPlayer

End of Summer stars Julia Ragnarsson, who Swedish thriller fans may recognise from The Bridge. The series begins in 1984, on the disappearance of a five-year-old boy named Billy that devastates his family.

20 years later, a chance meeting between Billy’s sister Vera (Ragnarsson) and a strangely familiar man (Erik Enge, The Sandhamn Murders), leads her to question the truth surrounding the case.

Popular podcast Just One Thing with Michael Mosley to get a TV adaption

Mosley’s podcast focuses on – naturally – just one thing an episode, in the hopes that listeners will take away a small change they can make in their daily lifestyles. One 15-minute episode might encourage you to take some deep breaths through your nose, another to take a walk immediately after it rains. Mosley then goes into the science of how it could improve your mental and physical health.  

Cheaters give it another go as BBC's comedy-drama renewed for second series

Two people sit against a cityscape at night, laughing

The comedy-drama, starring Susan Wokoma (Year Of The Rabbit), Joshua McGuire (Anatomy Of A Scandal), Jack Fox (Riviera) and Callie Cooke (Rules of The Game), first aired in 2022.

Following the lives of adulterers Fola (Wokoma) and Josh (McGuire) whose affair is less neat-and-tidy than they initially thought, the first series consisted of 18 10-minute episodes.

Tom Hiddleston to return for two more instalments of The Night Manager

The first series, based on John le Carré’s novel of the same name, stars Tom Hiddleston (Loki) as Jonathan Pine, a former military man and the night manager of a luxury Egyptian hotel. When Pine gets involved with one of his guests, he ends up assisting task force leader Angela Burr (Olivia Colman, The Crown) in taking down a terrifying and ruthless arms dealer, Richard Roper (Hugh Laurie, Blackadder).

Chris Packham on championing neurodiverse talent, self-diagnosis and Inside Our Autistic Minds

“I will be stopped at the station, on the train and getting off the train, and I guarantee you that nine out of 10 people will speak about [Inside Our Autistic Minds], and it's been like that since it went out.”

For the two-part documentary, Packham met with four autistic adults as they created short films to try and share the reality of their daily lives with their closest family and friends.

RTS award-winning CBBC programme A Kind of Spark receives April release date

Addie (Lola Blue, The Worst Witch), is an 11-year-old girl in her first year of high school, who discovers her home town of Juniper used to hold witch trials centuries ago. Her research leads her to Margaret (Hattie Gotobed, Homebound) and Elinor Fraser (Ella Maisy Purvis, Malpractice), two suspected witches from 1597 who had a confusing disappearance. The more Addie researches, she starts to suspect that Elinor Fraser may be neurodivergent like her.

First look images of Timothy Spall, Damian Lewis and Kate Phillips in BBC’s Wolf Hall

Wolf Hall follows Hilary Mantel’s series of historical novels of the same name, focusing on the rise of Thomas Cromwell through the court of Henry VIII (Damian Lewis, Homeland). The close of series one saw Cromwell rise to a place of political power, followed by the execution of Anne Boleyn (Claire Foy, The Crown), which means series two, Wolf Hall: The Mirror and The Light, will see Kate Phillips’ (Peaky Blinders) Jane Seymour take her place as the third queen

Amy Garcia on 10 years at Look North, mobile journalism and early work

Anyone who has questioned the importance and relevance of regional news will have been conclusively set straight by presenter Amy Garcia.

The anchor of BBC Yorkshire’s flagship news show celebrated 10 years at Look North by speaking about her life and job to media and communications students at the University of Leeds.

“I started in kids’ TV at the age of 19, presenting CITV programme S Club TV,” she recalled. “That was my first experience in live TV, interviewing the big bands of the early noughties, like Atomic Kitten and Busted.”