Russell T Davies will make an explosive return to screens to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of Doctor Who in 2023, and series beyond.  BBC Studios are partnering with Bad Wolf to produce.

Three series is the usual tenure for an actor playing the Doctor, so rumours are rife that Jodie Whittaker is about to step down. Michaela Coel, Olly Alexander and Richard Ayoade are among those tipped for the role. But what if, instead of a new Doctor, the show actually needs something a doctor might prescribe to an exhausted patient – a rest.

A child who went missing in Italy has been found by a reporter sent to cover his disappearance, several kilometres from the boy's home. The 21-month-old toddler was last seen in his bedroom on Monday night and was reported missing by his parents the next day.

A study that dug into the history of the Amazon Rainforest has found that indigenous people lived there for millennia with "causing no detectable species losses or disturbances". Scientists working in Peru searched layers of soil for microscopic fossil evidence of human impact.

The BBC has set up a dedicated complaints page for viewers fed up with its blanket coverage of the death of Prince Philip. "We're receiving complaints about too much TV coverage of the death of HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh," reads a statement on the BBC Complaints page, which invites disgruntled viewers to submit an email address to register a complaint.

Women in Italy who had an abortion or miscarriage discovered the fetus had been given a religious burial, in a grave marked with the mother's name, without their consent.

The BBC's Director-General Tim Davie has stated the corporation would cost viewers over £400 per year if it stopped depending on mandatory TV license fees and became a subscription service like Netflix. However, it's unclear whether the company would manage to keep its viewers in that case, observers say.

“This is our bear hut,” the short, vivacious woman shouted through a hand-held loudspeaker, her smile creasing her forehead with deep wrinkles. A blue hat was perched on her head and her short tunic, embroidered with pink geometric designs, was tied sharply at the waist. She pointed at a wooden structure made of round logs, raised high above the ground on stilts.

This year's Channel 4 alternative Christmas message will be delivered by a deepfake of the Queen. While the Queen is delivering her traditional message on the BBC and ITV, her digitally created doppelgänger will be sharing its "thoughts" on Channel 4. Buckingham Palace told the BBC it had no comment on the broadcast. Channel 4 said the intention was to give a "stark warning" about fake news in the digital age.

David Attenborough's new book A Life On Our Planet - My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future is out on October 1st.

In 1942, an Indian forest ranger discovered a remote lake, high in the Himalayas, full of human skeletons. Who were they?

The BBC’s director of content Charlotte Moore has revealed that the British broadcaster is planning to resume filming on Top Gear and EastEnders next month following the coronavirus production shutdown.

The livelihoods of one and a half billion workers are at risk from coronavirus , the UN warns.

Discworld fantasy stories will be adapted for TV ‘in a form he would be proud of’ after BBC America’s controversial cyberpunk take on The Watch

You’re staying inside, but you can still enjoy the cuddly creatures of the natural world.

London, where the British Broadcasting Corporation is located, is under lockdown due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, but that hasn’t stopped people (fools) from sun bathing and mass gathering. It’s the same problem that many cities around the globe are facing — I’m based in Austin, Texas, where the public parks looked like this on day one of a shelter-in-place order — so to help curtail the issue, the BBC is using clips from its classic shows to tell people to, as Malcolm Tucker might put it, stay the f*ck at home:

The government rates the global outbreak of a deadly flu virus as a major threat to the UK. It could happen at any time. To predict the impact of the next pandemic more accurately than ever before, new data is needed - and lots of it. Dr Hannah Fry is on the case.

Miles Warde explores the life of American photographer Ansel Adams

The series will follow the teenage climate activist on her international crusade, giving an ‘inside view on what it’s like being a global icon’

A Russian computer programmer involved in the collapse of a big cryptocurrency exchange says he was tricked into handing over its entire assets to fraudsters posing as FSB agents, according to documents obtained by BBC Russian. Alexei Bilyuchenko was a key player in Wex, which stopped trading in 2018, leaving customers unable to access investments totalling nearly half a billion US dollars.