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10.00am Thursday 16 and Friday 17 September on BBC ONE and BBC TWO

The BBC covers all the key events in Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Britain across TV, radio and online, with live events anchored by Huw Edwards (Vatican - The Hidden World Of God's Servants and Benedict - Trials Of A Pope offer further insight)

9.00pm Tuesday 14 September on BBC ONE

Liz Smith, Lionel Blair, Dickie Bird, Kenneth Kendall, Sylvia Sims and Derek Jameson journey back to their heyday in the Seventies to take part in an extraordinary experiment to see if they can think themselves younger

8.00pm Sunday 12 September on BBC ONE

Robbie Williams, Enrique Iglesias, The Wanted, Alexandra Burke, Alesha Dixon, Katherine Jenkins, Pixie Lott, Plan B, James Blunt and The Saturdays take part in a spectacular concert at Twickenham Stadium

12.10pm Sunday 12 September on BBC ONE

The world-famous Monza circuit is the setting for the Italian Grand Prix

7.25pm Saturday 11 September on BBC ONE

The hit family fantasy drama starring Colin Morgan, Bradley James, Anthony Head and Richard Wilson returns for a new series, and Lady Morgana hasn't been seen for a year...

6.25pm Saturday 11 September on BBC ONE and BBC HD

Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly put their dancing shoes on for a red carpet launch show from Television Centre which sees this year's celebrities matched with their professional dance partners for the first time

From the team behind BBC One's Live At The Apollo, the Bafta-nominated Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow returns to BBC One this September for a second series, featuring special headline guests John Bishop, Kevin Bridges, Ardal O' Hanlon, Sarah Millican, Tommy Tiernan, Noel Fielding as well as a host of new comedy talent.

Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow will travel around the UK visiting six of the most prestigious live theatre venues, unearthing a raft of comedy's brightest new talent and finest comedians en route.

The first series aired on BBC One last summer to phenomenal success and regularly achieved audiences of over 5m viewers and went on to be nominated for a plethora of high-profile awards, including a Bafta, NTA (National TV Award), RTS Award and British Comedy Award. The series won an RTS North Award for Best TV Entertainment Show in 2009.

4.35pm Tuesday 31 August and Wednesday 1 September on BBC ONE

Joel Defries, Helen Skelton and Andy Akolwinere reveal all about their summer trip to Italy as Blue Peter returns for a new series

BBC One Controller, Jay Hunt, confirmed today that The Graham Norton Show will move to a new prime time Friday night slot from October 22.

Speaking at the Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, Jay said: "Graham's show has gone from strength to strength since moving to BBC One and I'm sure the audience will love his unique blend of comedy and entertainment on a Friday night."

Graham Norton, responding to the announcement, said: "I'm thrilled that BBC One like the show enough to move it to Fridays. It's the night the show started on many years ago so it's nice to be back."

Now in its eighth series for the BBC, and celebrating its 501st episode, the show will return in the autumn with a 12-week series featuring a stellar line-up of celebrity guests.

The BBC and Steven Moffat have announced that the transmission of the next series of Doctor Who, in 2011, will be split into two blocks, transmitting in spring and autumn.

The split transmission is the result of a request from Steven Moffat to write a new Doctor Who story arc which involves a big plot twist in the middle of the series. By splitting the series Moffat plans to give viewers one of the most exciting Doctor Who cliffhangers and plot twists ever, leaving them waiting, on the edge of their seats, until the autumn to find out what happens.

Steven Moffat said: "The split series is hugely exciting because viewers will be treated to two premieres, two finales and more event episodes. For the kids it will never be more than a few months to the next Doctor Who! Easter, Autumn, Christmas!!"

BBC One Controller Jay Hunt today announces a raft of new programming and recommissions for the channel. Across comedy, factual and drama, the multi-genre announcement reflects BBC One's continued drive to develop diverse and high quality programming for the channel.

Drama

Bird Song is a two-part adaptation of the acclaimed novel by Sebastian Faulks. A truly epic drama, it's the story of Stephen and Isabelle brought together by love and torn apart by the First World War. This extraordinary tale of love, loss, heroism and hope will be brought to screen by award-winning writer Abi Morgan and produced by Working Title television.

Off the back of its 2010 success, MasterChef, with its judges John Torode and Gregg Wallace, is moving to a brand new kitchen which will accommodate a bigger group of amateur cooks all hoping to be the next champion, it was announced today.

BBC One has commissioned Shine TV to produce MasterChef's seventh series as 15 one-hour programmes. Kicking off the action for the first time ever, John and Gregg will audition amateur chefs chosen from the 20,000 applicants. Over the course of the auditions the 20 best contestants will be chosen to don the MasterChef apron and go through to the brand new kitchen.

Then, across the series, viewers will be able to follow the 20 lucky hopefuls as they face more ambitious tests than ever before, designed to really develop their culinary skills and test them to limit.

BBC One today announced a recommission of a second series of Junior Apprentice from producers talkbackTHAMES.

The recommission follows the success of the debut series of Junior Apprentice which launched on BBC One in May this year and saw Arjun Ragyagor claim the first Junior Apprentice title.

The second series of Junior Apprentice will broadcast later next year with Lord Sugar at its helm, along with his trusty advisors Nick Hewer and Karren Brady.

The series will return with an extended run (8x60mins), with a brand new line-up of budding Junior Apprentices aged 16 to 17 years old, competing over a series of business related tasks to become the next winner of Junior Apprentice and win a prize tailored to his or her individual career prospects, worth up to the value of £25,000.

12.05pm Sunday 29 August on BBC ONE

Jake Humphrey, Eddie Jordan and David Coulthard are in Spa-Francorchamps for the first Formula 1 race following the summer break, with everything still to play for

Four new dancers have joined to complete the new Strictly Come Dancing professional dance troupe, which will perform spectacular dance routines throughout series eight.

They are: Tanya Perera, who was a featured dancer in the West End production of Dirty Dancing; Shem Jacobs and Aneta Piotrowska, who have both performed in the Polish Dancing With The Stars; and Crystal Main, who has performed on Strictly Come Dancing in South Africa.

Crystal, Tanya, Aneta and Shem will join Darren Bennett and Ian Waite to make up the six-person group and together they will make their group debut performance in this year's Strictly launch show, due to transmit on BBC One on 11 September.

Darren Bennett will dance with Crystal Main, Ian Waite will dance with Aneta Piotrowska and Shem Jacobs will dance with Tanya Perera.