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A popular seaside town has had a helping hand - or paw - with its tourism in recent years, in the form of a much-loved local cat. Parsley has built up a huge social media following for his antics in Oban, and has even had visitors from all over the world.

EXCLUSIVE: BBC Three has greenlit a Eurovision-themed animation, its first in two decades.

The BBC is partnering with TikTok to create a boot camp for social media creators looking to break into the television industry.

“A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder” finds its lead in Emma Myers.

Wednesday star Emma Myers is to lead the BBC’s adaptation of Holly Jackson’s A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder.

EXCLUSIVE: The headline-grabbing abduction of British model Chloe Ayling is to be dramatized for the BBC by Killing Eve writer Georgia Lester.

BBC Three is to adapt Holly Jackson’s New York Times bestselling teen crime thriller A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder from Amazon Prime Video’s The Pursuit of Love producer Moonage Pictures.

BBC Three has greenlit a drama following five underprivileged Black students who win scholarships to an elite British boarding school from BAFTA-nominated Timewasters creator Daniel Lawrence Taylor and Three Girls producer Studio Lambert.

EXCLUSIVE: The wait to discover the next BBC Factual, Arts and Classical Music director is to go on a little while longer.

Conversations With Friends,” the upcoming series adaptation of Sally Rooney’s novel, will premiere on May 15 on Hulu, BBC announced today, in addition to dropping a new trailer for the show.The series follows 21-year-old Frances (Alison Oliver), who, after three years, is still best friends with her ex-girlfriend, Bobbi (Sasha Lane). The two are inseparable, but at one of their poetry performances in Dublin, they meet Melissa (Jemima Kirke), an older writer who is taken by them.

The BBC Factual department has unveiled a vast slate including a natural history series following four animal families over four years and shows commemorating the 40th anniversaries of the Falklands War and AIDS crisis.

K.J. Yossman Oscar Kennedy (“Ladhood”) and Jack Rowan (“Noughts + Crosses”) have joined new BBC comedy horror series “Wrecked.”Described as a “tense thriller” set aboard a cruise ship, the six-episode series is both comic with a “slice of slasher.” It is currently in production in Northern Ireland. Kennedy stars as Jamie, who infiltrates a cruise ship called The Sacramentum, in a bid to find his sister, who has gone missing after working aboard the ship on a previous tour.As Jamie is initiated into the 3,000-strong crew he meets the different factions it’s comprised of, from the theater workers to the “mafias” and low-paid staff, and their life of partying and excess.

James Arthur will detail his mental health struggles with ‘compelling honesty’ in an upcoming BBC Three documentary. The Say You Won’t Let Go singer, 33, has been open about his battle with anxiety following his triumphant win on series nine of The X Factor – which naturally put his personal life in the spotlight. The star’s latest feature-length titled, James Arthur: Out of Our Minds, will show the musician discussing issues with antidepressants and depression while speaking with others who have been through a similar experience.

K.J. Yossman Shine TV are set to make “Young MasterChef” for BBC Three, with applications for the show now open to wannabe-contestants.Focusing on “food talent” aged from 18 to 25, the ten-part series will see a panel of expert judges and celebrity guests put contestants’ skills to the test.Participants, who do not need to have any prior experience, will be asked to undertake a variety of challenges set to “push them to new culinary heights”“MasterChef,” on which the younger spin-off is based, has long been a staple on the BBC and its highest rating cookery format since 2017, followed only by “Celebrity MasterChef.” “MasterChef” returns for its 18th series in March.Shine TV, who are part of Banijay U.K., will make the series in association with Ziji Productions.

The BBC are set to create a "woke" new soap to reflect modern Britain and rival EastEnders. A day before BBC Three's return from online-only to regular television channels - with a line up of big stars including Gemma Collinswho celebrates turning 41 today - the network's controller Fiona Campbell has revealed her ambition for the new show.

BBC Three has commissioned its latest factual drama from the BAFTA-winning BBC Studios team behind Killed By My Debt, Murdered By My Father and Murdered For Being Different.

Naman Ramachandran BBC Three returns as a broadcast channel on Feb. 1 with a renewed focus on youth.“BBC Three was always focused on that under-35 demographic historically, and so that’s definitely a core part of our DNA,” says BBC Three controller Fiona Campbell. “The new iteration of where we’re at creatively – we’re focusing on 25s and under.

EXCLUSIVE: “Bringing BBC Three back to linear TV” would have been far down former BBC Director General Tony Hall’s list of predictions for his successor’s first major piece of business.

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EXCLUSIVE: BBC3 controller Fiona Campbell has been tipped to permanently take on Patrick Holland’s Director of Factual, Arts and Classical Music role, with several internal candidates also thought to be in the running.

EXCLUSIVE: With a return to linear just around the corner, BBC3 channel controller Fiona Campbell is to take on Patrick Holland’s Factual, Arts and Classical Music brief temporarily from this week, as the network seeks a Channel Editor to support Campbell.

Fleabag and Normal People platform BBC Three has been greenlit to return as a broadcast channel in February 2022.