During an RTS Cymru Wales tour last month, Bevan and Roger Crothers, head of technology at BBC Cymru Wales, said the £120m Central Square building was conceived as a fully integrated IP operation, which will be the largest digital broadcast centre of its kind in Europe when complete.
Tom Kerridge will travel all around the UK to discover the business owners and staff who are going above and beyond to provide the best in British hospitality.
With a career spanning over 30 years, Kerridge is a passionate supporter and advocate for the industry.
The eight-part series will see Kerridge visit family-run cafés, restaurants, pubs, bars and wedding caterers. He will go behind the scenes to learn about the people running the business and how they are surviving in today’s tough market.
The film followed Andy (Stephen Graham), a head chef at upmarket London restaurant Jones & Sons struggling to cope during one of the busiest days of the year.
The new series promises to be full of twists and turns as a new group of characters find their lives turned upside down as they face a battle with loyalty, faith and morality.
Christine Rees (Rakie Ayola) is a social worker who along with her children, Megan (Mali Ann Rees), Will (Lloyd Everitt) and Jamie (Aaron Anthony), is dealing with the loss of her son and their brother Liam.
The family’s life is thrown into turmoil when an out-of-town stranger Connor (Jordan Wilks) claims to be a previously unknown Rees sibling and looks strangely like Liam.
Session chair Amol Rajan: Is the licence fee the least bad option for funding the BBC?
Tim Davie: Yes…. If you believe in universal broadcasting… the licence fee, for all its problems, [has] enabled a few things: the BBC has been able to keep [to] its mission, it’s kept us independent [and] impartial; and it provides a certainty of funding in the medium term….
BBC journalist, Mastermind presenter and opera lover Clive Myrie didn’t pull any punches as he defended his employer in this year’s Steve Hewlett Memorial Lecture, entitled “The BBC: Destroy at your peril”.
Myrie, who joined the BBC in 1987 as a trainee local radio reporter, laid out his reasons why the licence fee was a better way of funding the corporation than subscription. He stressed the importance of a trusted, impartial news service and the BBC’s universality at a time when notions of truth have become subjective and impartiality “a false God”.
The no holds barred, raw and open documentary will uncover the struggles the musician, actor and dad of three has experienced with drug and alcohol addiction.
It was a battle that pushed him to the brink, and despite reaching dizzying heights of success as part of the band Busted, Willis was finding it hard to cope behind closed doors.
Willis will look at the potential reasons behind his addiction and speak to other families, experts, counsellors and support groups to try and understand why some people become alcohol and drug dependent.
James Nesbitt will return as DCI Tom Brannick in the upcoming six-part series, created and written by Chris Brandon.
At the end of the last series the identity of legendary assassin Goliath was shockingly revealed to be Brannick.
So when the murder of a crooked accountant unravels a trail of greed that could expose Brannick’s hidden life as Goliath, he must become dangerously close to the accountant’s widow Olivia (Victoria Smurfit) to solve the riddle he left behind.
Galloping inflation, strikes, oversized flares, platform boots, and suffocating heat. It’s almost as if we’re reliving the 1970s. And the perfect TV companion? Look no further than the hugely enjoyable and critically adored sci-fi cop series Life on Mars.
Sam Tyler (John Simm), a by-the-book, impeccably liberal detective in noughties Manchester, is knocked unconscious by a speeding car while listening to David Bowie’s Life on Mars?… and wakes up, dressed in big collar, Chelsea boots and leather jacket, in 1973.
