MUMBAi: BBC?s children?s channel CBeebies has unveiled three new series.

?Get Well Soon? is factual entertainment show made by Kindle Entertainment, while ?Mr Bloom?s Nursery: Get Set, Grow!? and ?I Can Cook - On The Go? are adaptations of the CBeebies series? ?Mr Bloom?s Nursery? and ?I Can Cook?.

All three new commissions will film in a number of locations around the country.

?Get Well Soon? aims to enlighten CBeebies? young audience about health and medical issues in an exciting and informative way. Presented by real-life paediatrician Dr Ranjit Singh, the series will help children to understand their bodies and to see the medical world as an environment in which they feel safe.

Being ill can often be unpleasant but visiting the doctor can be a positive experience; understanding your symptoms is the first step to getting better.

The series tackles this through music, laughter, games and five childlike puppet characters.

In each episode Dr Ranj will open up his surgery to a different child puppet, each displaying different symptoms. As an experienced paediatrician, Dr Ranj is well-equipped to reassure his young patients and ensure that a visit to the doctor is seen as an interesting, non-threatening experience.

The series will explore and explain 30 of the most common childhood illnesses, injuries and general ailments from asthma to chickenpox; food allergies to hiccups. As well as visiting the Doctor?s surgery, Get Well Soon also travels around the country where groups of pre-school children help real-life nurse Morag Calder answer the puppets? questions and explain how our bodies work.

?Get Well Soon? is in production for transmission on CBeebies later this year. The series will be recorded in studio and also on location at a number of nurseries and schools.

?Mr Bloom?s Nursery: Get Set, Grow!? sees Mr Bloom pack up his Compo Car and head out across the country to set up a travelling village fete for thousands of Tiddlers. Mr Bloom is, of course, joined by his loveable team of Veggies who are thrilled to discover about life outside the Nursery from an amazing maize maze to meeting enormous vegetables; from scarecrow competitions to rooftop gardens.

In conjunction with the new series, BBC Learning is staging a series of family events throughout the UK this summer. Hosted by Mr Bloom (aka Ben Faulks), the events will show the audience how to have fun in the garden and, of course, there will be the usual mix of humour, music and lots of audience interaction!

The series will air early next year.

Katy Ashworth enjoys cooking up some scrumptious snacks in ?I Can Cook - On The Go?.

This series focuses on creating healthy sweet and savoury recipes and looks at why nutritious food gives energy to perform well in life. Katy travels around the UK in Horace, her kitchen campervan, helping children create and prepare healthy food. Katy then joins the children as they take part in fun activities together including going to the skate park, surfing and treasure hunts. When it?s time for a break, the snacks they prepared earlier are the perfect energy source to enable them to play more.

With songs to sing, actions to join in with and mouth-watering recipes to try at home I Can Cook - On the Go will make healthy eating, and outdoor activities, fun and accessible for families to enjoy together, ?I Can Cook - On The Go? is currently in production for transmission on CBeebies later this year.

CBeebies controller Kay Benbow Benbow said, ?These three new commissions are typical of the range and depth of programming on CBeebies at the moment. Get Well Soon is an exciting new commission which I think will make the medical world more open and accessible to our young audience. I think we have discovered a real talent in Dr Ranjit Singh who is not only an experienced paediatrician but an exciting new face that I am delighted to bring to CBeebies. I am also thrilled to welcome back returning favourites Mr Bloom and I Can Cook in new formats as they both hit the road to meet audiences around the country.?

MUMBAI: BBC is making its first-ever dedicated daily TV news programme in English for African audiences.

The new programme, BBC Focus On Africa, brings together the expertise of the BBC World Service?s African Service and BBC World News on television.

It is the first in a range of new programming for Africa to be launched by the BBC this summer, including a major expansion of its TV offer.

BBC Focus on Africa will be aired by the BBC?s broadcast partners in Africa and will be shown globally on BBC World News. It forms just one part of an expansion of the BBC?s offer on TV, radio and online.

BBC has named Komla Dumor and Sophie Ikenye as the main presenters of the daily 30-minute news programme.

BBC Focus On Africa will be launched on prime-time TV across the continent from 18 June. The programme will draw on the pool of BBC African talent on the continent and in London to report on Africa?s rising economies, entrepreneurs, innovators, culture, entertainment and sport.

Focus on Africa will be covering the major news from the continent and asking: is there a way out of the Sudan crisis? What impact will Europe?s economic problems have on Africa?s booming economies? How does Africa deal with its growth in natural resources?

The programme will also challenge African leaders and politicians on tough issues.

Focus On Africa will report on the latest developments in business, technology and science and speak to those driving change. It will also look at how Africa is becoming an information technology hotspot. The programme will report, for example, on Kenyan scientists who are at the forefront in discovering cheaper, locally produced medicines to combat malaria.

Focus On Africa reporters across Africa will be giving us a snapshot of the innovation, lifestyle and culture of the country they live in. The programme will feature Africa Beats, looking at the people behind Africa?s varied music scenes. Every step of the way viewers will have their say through social media.

Focus on Africa presenter Komla Dumor said, "After decades of turmoil and uncertainty, a new Africa is emerging. The old stereotypes are being challenged and a new, compelling narrative is being written. I am incredibly excited to be part of a new BBC programme that will provide solid coverage and analysis of Africa?s challenges and prospects."

BBC?s Africa editor Solomon Mugera said, "Africa is now one of the fastest developing news markets in the world - this new investment will expand our services for African audiences.

"While radio remains popular in Africa, TV is growing - and our partnerships with leading African broadcasters play a key part in these future plans. Mobile phone ownership is racing towards a billion, internet connectivity is rising and social media is empowering audiences. It?s essential that the kind of independent journalism the BBC does that isn?t slanted to one political or commercial viewpoint remains central to the new media landscape."

With correspondents in 48 African countries, production centres in Nairobi, Abuja, Johannesburg and Dakar and a weekly audience of 77 million, the BBC already has deep roots in the continent.

"Our journalists are from the African countries they report on - in English, Swahili, Hausa, Somali, Kinyarwanda/Kirundi and French - living and breathing the big stories and issues facing Africa," said Mugera.

The BBC also announced that six special episodes from Africa of current affairs interview programme Rendezvous, hosted by Zeinab Badawi, will be broadcast on BBC World News from mid-June with guests including President Kikwete of Tanzania.

The BBC newsgathering resources in Africa are part of a global network of 70 bureaux. The BBC made its first broadcast to Africa more than 80 years ago. The combined audience on radio and television makes the BBC the largest international broadcaster in Africa.

Mumbai: Colors, the Hindi general entertainment channel from Viacom18 stable, will premiere the dance reality show Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa on 16 June.

In its fifth season, and first on Colors, the celebrity dancing reality show will air every Saturday and Sunday at 9 pm. The first four editions of the show were aired on Sony Entertainment Television.

The show will see 12 budding choreographers and celebrity contestants from different walks of life on a common platform.

Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa is an Indian version of the international format ?Dancing with the Stars?. It not only focuses on the celebrities? performances but also provides an understanding into the ?real? celebrity and his journey, the channel said.

Produced by BBC Worldwide Productions in India, the show will be judged by Bollywood actor Madhuri Dixit-Nene, Indian film director, producer, screenwriter, costume designer and television host Karan Johar and dance choreographer Remo D?Souza.

MUMBAI: BBC Vision director George Entwistle has unveiled a reorganisation of BBC Vision and rights and business affairs that will stimulate new ways of working and help free-up significantly increased content spend.

Completing BBC Vision?s original ambition to unify all parts of the business, the new structures and new ways of working aims to benefit the audience by maximising on-screen spend, while reducing internal costs.

In the new business core, activity will be structured around three new genres: Knowledge and Daytime; Comedy and Entertainment; and Drama, Film & Acquisitions. Smaller central business teams will be retained in Vision and Rights and Business Affairs to ensure the genres are working to the same high standards.

Changes within the business already announced under DQF, and enhanced by Vision?s reorganisation, will free up ?27million for reinvestment in 2013/14. Simplifying the business should also ensure improved commissioning and business effectiveness for all suppliers, both in-house and independent.

The new genre-based working model will also allow better alignment with the emerging structures of BBC UK Network Production and will facilitate the creation and operation of genre boards, which will be used to align editorial and commercial strategy across BBC public service, BBC Worldwide and all other commercial partners.

As part of the restructure, three new senior Controller of Business roles will be created. Reporting to Bal Samra, each will lead on business affairs for one of the three main genre groups and will be responsible for all the key business functions within their genre. The Controllers of Business will work in new leadership teams alongside the Commissioning and Production Genre Controllers in each of the key genre groups.

BBC Vision director George Entwistle said, ?The key to the creative future of the BBC is to ensure good people and good money spend less time tied up in process and more time creating the very highest quality television programmes and multiplatform output. The hard choices we?ve already made through DQF, plus the radical new ways of working implicit in this reorganization, will help simplify what we do ? freeing people and money to concentrate on serving our audiences."

BBC Vision Productions director of vision operations and director of right and business affairs Bal Samra and chief creative office Pat Younge have worked with George Entwistle to help shape the future structure of the division.

Samra will continue to be responsible for all Vision Operations and Rights and Business Affairs, while taking full responsibility for the production management teams across the genres. He will also sponsor the changes required to create the new genre business teams and central roles.

Younge?s new role will see him freed up from operational obligations to focus on the creative leadership of all network TV production in Drama, Factual, Entertainment and Comedy.

Pat will continue to line manage the key production controllers and editorial staff in Vision?s in-house production teams, and will be responsible for driving creative standards and innovation in content creation for all platforms.

Vision?s new structure will be implemented in phases, with changes complete by 2013. The recruitment process for the new Controller of Business posts will start immediately, with appointments due in the summer.

MUMBAI: ?Appropriate Adult?, an ITV miniseries about a serial killer Fred West, won three acting awards at the Bafta TV awards in the UK.

Dominic West, Emily Watson and Monica Dolan won for their roles in the show. West beat out stiff competition that included the star of ?Sherlock? Benedict Cumberbatch.

Andrew Scott won the award for supporting actor in ?Sherlock? as the Elad character?s nemesis Moriarty. ITV2?s show ?Celebrity Juice? won the YouTube audience award.

The award for best drama show went to BBC?s ?The Fades?. The award for comedy programme went to BBC?s ?Stewart Lee?s Comedy Vehicle? while its sitcom ?Mrs Brown?s Boys? won in that category. Its factual series ?Our War ? also triumphed.

Danish thriller ?Borgen? won for best international TV show. Rolf Harris got the Fellowship Award.