BBC's Blog, page 30

New Buy Online module

I'm Dan Taylor, Executive Editor for TV and iPlayer and part of my job is ensuring the TV programmes the BBC commissions and produces are as discoverable as possible online.

As well as giving information about when our programmes are broadcast on BBC TV and Radio and when they are available in BBC iPlayer we also want to let users know when they are available to buy or access on a commercial basis.

The new Buy Online module

We therefore provide a module on our programme pages which shows the commercial availability of that programme and links through to product pages which list the various formats and suppliers.

Last October Roly Keating wrote about improvements to BBC Online's Buyer's Guide/Commercial Availability feature on the About the BBC blog.

Today I'm updating on further improvements we've recently made to the feature.

The motivation remains the same: help licence fee payers to find the programmes their licence fee helped create, even when they are no longer on television, radio or BBC iPlayer.

So, what's changed and why?

Firstly, a more common sense label: 'Buy Online' replaces the rather stuffy 'Commercial Availability'.

Secondly, a new design where the product page that lists the availability of a programme in different formats inherits the styling of the original programme page (e.g. Doctor Who).

Previous product page for Doctor Who

The new page

Thirdly, the addition of links to digital download and on demand streaming services such as iTunes and LOVEFiLM alongside links to physical formats (CD, DVD and Blu-ray).

We carried out extensive user testing during the development cycle to make sure that the new presentation made sense to users and tweaked the designs and labelling accordingly.

Future plans include the integration with the Episode Guide on BBC programme pages so you can see at a glance which series and episodes are available to buy online.

We'll also be continuing to add new products and suppliers to make the most comprehensive possible view of BBC programme availability.

Dan Taylor is Executive Editor, BBC TV & iPlayer.

Connected Red Button Launch

I'm Matt Coulson, Executive Product Manager for Red Button in BBC TV and Mobile Platforms.

Today we are launching the new BBC Connected Red Button on the Virgin TiVo service with plans to roll out the service to a range of connected TVs and operators in 2013.

Viewing content by channel on BBC Connected Red Button

Connected Red Button brings TV, radio and BBC online together in the simplest way possible. (See the press release for more details.)

The service is presented in a feature rich yet powerfully simple experience that is suitable for just about anyone.

It enhances the traditional Red Button service by bringing TV, news, sport, radio and weather together on the big screen enabling you to:

Discover more shows from your favourite channel or station.
Enjoy programmes from channels even when they're off air: watch programmes from BBC Three, BBC Four, CBBC or CBeebies day or night.
Catch programmes you missed with BBC iPlayer at the press of a button.
Read or watch the latest news clips and stories that matter to you.
Never miss the action from the sports you're passionate about including live events, highlights and headlines.
Find out about the weather in your area.

Yet while this is a significant milestone in the evolution of Red Button, it is only the beginning.

The journey to Connected Red Button began in 2011 with a vision for the next generation of Red Button services underscored by a number of core product principles.



The vision set out by Daniel Danker in his blog post was to reimagine Red Button for a new generation of connected TV audiences, retaining the simplicity, usability and range of content available in the original.

We aimed to harness the latest in TV and internet technology to create a personalised user experience with rich curated content and to set a new standard of interaction on the big-screen - but most of all to make the result so effortless and natural that the technology becomes invisible and the content takes centre stage.

Or browse by station

While Connected Red Button is a long term strategic product, it in no way signals the demise of traditional BBC Red Button.

Twenty million people a month press red on the BBC and our ambition is to develop the service and increase the size of our audience.

Connected Red Button makes its debut on Virgin TiVo, an open platform that enables innovation through third party services.

Virgin set-top boxes are connected to the internet, a requirement for the new Connected Red Button. Virgin TiVo subscribers were also, until now, unable to receive traditional BBC Red Button services so we're delighted to bring Connected Red Button to this audience.

Throughout 2012 the BBC has also been engaging with a number of TV manufacturers and platform operators regarding our connected TV application plans and the related technical specifications and certification requirements.

We'll be rolling out Connected Red Button to a range of connected TV devices during 2013 and in many cases 2012 TVs will also be upgraded to Connected Red Button.



Over time, as audiences use televisions and set-top boxes which are increasingly connected we expect to migrate them from the traditional Red Button to the new Connected Red Button.

With forecasts of up to 22 million connected TVs installed in UK homes by the end of 2016 Connected Red Button is well positioned as an enhanced Red Button service for users who already have or intend to buy supported connected televisions for their homes.

There is lots of new content and features planned for the coming year including improved event support, more content from your favourite programmes and better personalisation.

Discover more BBC content

We also see a world where mobile and tablet editions team up with Connected Red Button on the big screen to deliver some truly immersive and versatile experiences.

The Connected Red Button programme was managed as a series of agile delivery projects blending concept work, user centred interaction design, testing and audience trials with iterative software development.

The product was engineered using BDD (behaviour-driven development) and TDD (test-driven development) encouraging close collaboration between product owners, testers, software engineers and designers.

Crucially engineering teams worked shoulder-to-shoulder with editorial teams to jointly create an experience that blends technology and content in a brand new way for audiences, capitalising on the BBC's unique expertise in high quality curation.

The service is a new and important addition to the BBC's Red Button portfolio. We hope you enjoy using the service and we look forward to receiving feedback over the coming days, weeks and months.

There will be a follow up post outlining the technical and UX considerations for Connected Red Button on TiVo coming soon.

Matt Coulson is the Executive Product Manager for Red Button in BBC TV and Mobile Platforms.

Start-ups, digital media trends and the BBC

Hi my name is Cyrus Saihan and I work as Head of Business Development in the Future Media division of the BBC.

In Business Development we work closely with a range of companies in the digital media and technology space to ensure that the BBC has a high quality presence on consumer devices (TV / mobile / tablet / desktop) and that we are working with third parties to help keep the BBC's digital services as innovative as possible.

Whilst we work closely with many large companies headquartered in the USA and South East Asia, the UK is increasingly becoming a hot-bed of digital innovation.

One of the BBC's six public purposes is "delivering to the public the benefit of emerging communications, technologies and services".

As digital media continues to evolve at an increasingly rapid pace it is important that the BBC keeps up to date with the latest technologies and trends and works with the industry to take advantage of the exciting new advances out there.

We recently reached the 90th anniversary of the first transmission of BBC Radio.

It is interesting to note that it took nearly 38 years for radio to reach an audience of 50 million but it only took Facebook around 2.5 years to reach 50 million subscribers - just one indicator of how technological change is advancing at such a rapid rate.

BBC audience growth

The UK has the chance to play a key part in these exciting changes and the potential of the UK digital and technology industry was highlighted to me a couple of weeks ago when, along with some of my colleagues at BBC Worldwide (the commercial arm of the BBC) and a team of digital specialists from the international agency Ogilvy & Mather, I spent the day hearing from 10 UK based companies about their new digital ventures and ideas.

We based ourselves in the Modern Jago space in the Rochelle School in East London.

Close to London's 'Silicon Roundabout' the Rochelle School is an impressive set of Victorian buildings that are used as a workspace for artists and the creative industries.

We saw for ourselves an example of the 'fruits' of collaboration between art and technology: on the day that we were there a local artist, Dustin O'Hara, had created a game controller that enabled you to play Space Invaders using a pineapple, some bananas and a MaKey MaKey printed circuit board - certainly a different slant on the term 'natural' user interface!

As a sign of the growing importance of the UK technology scene global heavyweights such as Google, Amazon, Intel, Microsoft and Cisco have established a presence in the East London area.

Playing Space Invaders with fruit

On the day we were there Microsoft were utilising the Modern Jago area to showcase Windows 8 and their recently released Surface device.

As well as some of the largest technology companies in the world East London is also host to a range of exciting start-ups.

We spent the day meeting with a variety of companies who all had very different products and services ranging from social media monitoring and engagement tools to a platform that aims to help storytellers create cross-platform social games and experiences, from an 'Instagram for video' to a 'Twitter for video'.

What struck me was that despite the range of products and services that each company had to offer there were a number of common themes that stood out which all have an impact on how we consume media and communicate with each other.

The importance of mobile and video

According to Ofcom over 40% of UK adults now own a smartphone with the same percentage saying that their phone is the most important device to access the internet.

As a result of the growth in smart phone usage many of the companies that we met with had mobile at the heart of their offer.

Video consumption is also growing at a dramatic rate: YouTube have said that 72 hours of content are uploaded to their platform every minute and Cisco's Visual Networking Index predicts that the total of all forms of video (TV, VOD, Internet and P2P) will be over 85% of global consumer traffic by 2016.

This combination of the increasing popularity of smartphones and the worldwide growth in online video consumption is opening up a number of opportunities for start-ups, new ways for the BBC to reach our audiences and new ways for individuals to communicate with each other.

Information overload

The amount of information that individuals and companies have to deal with on a daily basis continues to dramatically increase: in 2010 Eric Schmidt (Executive Chairman of Google) estimated that every two days we now create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilisation up until 2003.

To help make sense of this a number of companies are developing products and services that help us sift and effectively use the increasing amounts of information out there, extracting simple summaries from the various complex data sets that we are all exposed to.

Sorting information in this way can range from filtering through the 400 million tweets and one billion+ Facebook posts made each day, to the wide range of metrics that a company might need to monitor (website visitors, sales figures etc), to the video clips and images that individuals take and store on their smartphones.

As the amount of information and media that our audiences have access to continues to increase the BBC has to determine how we fulfil our role as a curator of content.

The power of online 'influencers'

As the use and membership of Twitter and other social networks such as Facebook and LinkedIn continues to grow individuals can sometimes wield 'influence' in ways that they might not have previously been able to.

Whilst the number of followers / friends can be an important indicator of influence in the online world (Justen Bieber has over 30 million followers on Twitter and so commands a huge personal audience) the importance of niche and engaged communities is also giving rise to a group of individuals who, whilst they might not have a huge number of followers, are very influential in the areas that they are engaged with.

There are parallels to this with some of our programming output - whilst some programmes, often around niche content areas, might not have huge audiences, the audiences that do follow them can be very passionate indeed.

The companies that we met with were just a small section of the exciting developments in the UK start-up industry and as the themes mentioned above continue to develop I'm sure that we will see further ways for the BBC to deliver on its public purposes and help drive innovation.

Cyrus Saihan is Head of Business Development, BBC Future Media.

What's on BBC Red Button 1 - 8 December

BBC Asian Network's highlights of 2012

Madhuri Dixit is among the stars to feature in the Asian Network highlights

Watch Shah Rukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit and Rahat Fateh Ali Khan plus a whole host of stars as BBC Asian Network takes a look back at an action-packed 2012.

We've got special live music performances and exclusive footage of Bollywood celebrities who joined us during this exciting year.

Available on Freesat/Sky/Virgin Media/Freeview:

Sat 8 Dec, 6am-2.30pm

Sat 8 Dec, 7.55pm-9.55pm

Sat 8 Dec, 11pm-1am

Strictly Come Dancing

Can Louis Smith and Flavia Cacace climb the leaderboard this week?

Join former Strictly champion and professional dancer Karen Hardy and 2010 contestant Ann Widdecombe as they commentate live on the couples' performances. Expect a mixture of insight and irreverence as they give you the heads up on who's hot and who's not on the dancefloor, before the judges have their say. And don't forget about the Strictly blog for more backstage gossip.

Available on Freesat/Sky/Virgin Media/Freeview:

Sat 1 Dec, 6.50pm-8pm

Sat 8 Dec, 6.50pm-7.55pm

David Attenborough - the early years

David Attenborough is celebrating 60 years in wildlife broadcasting

David Attenborough and his early years are the subject of a collection of films from BBC Four. Delve into his remarkable 60 years in wildlife broadcasting with specially selected clips from the collection on the Red Button.

Available on Freesat/Sky/Virgin Media/Freeview:

Mon 3 Dec, 11pm-1.25am

Wed 5 Dec, 11pm-4am

Fri 7 Dec, 12.55am-4am

Antiques Roadshow Play Along

Fancy yourself as an armchair antiques expert? Fiona Bruce and the team visit the University of Aberystwyth in mid Wales this week - why not join them and play along with our Antiques Roadshow quiz by pressing red?

Our valuation game is simple, fun and free to play - simply consider each of the objects featured in the programme, select an option before our experts give their valuation and see how many you get right. Don't forget to tweet your scores to #antiquesroadshow.

Available on Sky/Freeview:

Sun 2 Dec, 7:55pm-9pm

Dragons' Den

Press red to go behind the scenes of the Den as we get the inside story on the investments made this week. Find out what attracted the Dragons to their investments and what their rivals made of the deals.

Available on Freesat/Sky/Virgin Media/Freeview:

Sun 2 Dec, 11pm-4am

Wed 5 Dec, 1am-4am

Thu 6 Dec, 11pm-12.55am

Fri 7 Dec, 11pm-4am

BBC Sport

Catch up on all the latest Sport here on the Red Button.

This week's highlights


Snooker: Live coverage daily from the UK Championship in York
Final Score: Keep up with every goal in every game on Saturday afternoons
NFL: Live coverage of Washington Redskins at New York Giants

Please note that Red Button sport timings are subject to change at short notice.

For the latest information refer to the BBC Sport website.

CBeebies Red Button

CBeebies Red Button welcomes younger viewers and grown-ups with a sense of adventure to the big, bright and fun world of CBeebies interactive!

Your children's favourite characters are at the heart of the interactive TV experience. Satellite and digital terrestrial viewers will have slightly different offerings
from one another. This has enabled the Red Button team to offer the best games tailored to each system.

CBeebies Red Button is available on the CBeebies channel, and via page 5900 on other channels.

Visit the CBeebies website to find out more.

Available on Freeview and Sky only

Have your say on BBC Online and BBC Red Button

The BBC Trust carries out an in-depth review of each of the BBC's services at least once every five years. This time the Trust is looking at BBC Online and BBC Red Button Services.

The Trust wants your views and suggestions on these services and how they can be improved. There is also space in the consultation to raise any other points not covered by our questions. The consultation is open until 23rd January 2013.

To find out more about the consultation and how to take part, visit the BBC Trust site:
BBC Online and BBC Red Button Service Review

If you would like a paper version sent to you, email onlineandredbutton@bbc.co.uk or call 0800 0680 116.

To request the questions in audio or braille please call 0800 0680 116 or textphone 0800 0153 350.

Large print is also available to download via the BBC Trust site:
BBC Online and BBC Red Button Service Review

Parallax Scrolling: James Bond

My name is Helene Sears and I'm an Editorial Designer for BBC News.

My team produces a huge range of visuals including all of the daily charts, maps and infographics that accompany our online news stories.

We also work on longer interactive features which have ranged from visually explaining the Eurozone crisis to a calculator that tells you where you are on the global pay scale.

Recently developer Steven Atherton and I did a first for BBC News: we created an infographic using parallax scrolling - a technique originally used in 2D video games to create a 3D look and feel.

James Bond: Cars, catchphrases and kisses on BBC News

The subject we chose was a feature about the James Bond movie franchise reaching its 50 year anniversary - not urgent or the highest priority - but a good place to experiment.

The best thing about my job is that we have a fantastic opportunity to try out new approaches and get immediate feedback from our audience.

Designing 'James Bond: Cars, catchphrases and kisses'

Watching our TV designers create motion graphics using After Effects reminded me of parallax scrolling.

Inspired by their work I came up with the idea of building an infographic using this technique which involves multiple layers of visuals programmed to scroll at different speeds.



I wanted to use parallax not because of its popularity but because I felt it would lend itself exceptionally well to the James Bond content.

The motion effect creates the feel of the opening credits and it would also allow me to showcase the epic visuals of the films.



First I built a prototype.

A couple of years ago I worked with Ste Everington, a UX Designer for BBC iPlayer, who had built a parallax site for his own project so I knew it could be done, though my code skills are basic at best.



After reading this tutorial I took parts of the code, redirected it to my images and then did some basic calculations to work out the alignment figures (where the images should go).

I was then able to get a prototype together in Dreamweaver (yes Dreamweaver, I did say my code is basic).

Helene working out the coding for the infographic on Dreamweaver

It took me less than a day to make something that was strong enough to convey the idea.

Building 'James Bond: Cars, catchphrases and kisses'

Having built my prototype by eyeballing distances, it was fascinating to watch developer Steven Atherton work and build the page mathematically correctly.



The first major stumbling block was interaction of the parallax background with the BBC News page.



The manipulation of the DOM elements gave the impression that the whole page was in parallax.

Sometimes this created odd gaps between images and at others the content would drift up - at one point we had Sean Connery in the masthead.



Then came the next round of challenges: making sure it worked on older browsers - all the way down to IE6, that the EMP (audio clip players) would scale down to 256 pixels wide and that the whole thing would also work on tablets.



Steven's first thought was to create a viewport to contain the parallax, but a few initial experiments showed that while this was technically possible it wasn't a great user experience.



The solution seemed to be controlling the animation speed more precisely and easing the animation early thus hiding unsightly overlaps with the masthead.



To handle adverts or introduction text being inserted we captured the distances dynamically and had the animations interact accordingly.



The animation starts slowly as the user scrolls down the page and speeds-up once the top of the feature hits the top of the users' browser window, eventually stopping altogether when the footer aligns with the bottom of the feature.



It was much easier to make corrections by sitting with Steven and using Firebug as opposed to the much less agile method of sending him annotated images from Illustrator.



Our solution for older browsers and for tablet was to disable the JavaScript and flatten the graphic and for places in the world that can't load the EMP it's simply stripped out.

Helene does some basic calculations to work out the alignment figures

When it launched the response was overwhelmingly positive. The vast majority of comments that came in were about how great it was we were using big bold visuals and how much fun the page was.

We did have a couple of comments about the fact it's not on the mobile site and that it's a very heavy page to load at nearly seven megabytes.

The size isn't a huge surprise considering the graphic was 13,000 pixels long - we normally try to stay no deeper than 620 pixels and at the moment all of our content is stripped out of the mobile site. It's a complex problem that we are working hard to resolve.



Meanwhile one of my colleagues in World Service was working on an innovative feature that also pushed the boundaries of the page.



Nour Saab and Steven Conner designed a feature on the importance of the Latino vote in the United States.



The page progressively reveals the content as the user scrolls and its development presented similar challenges to our parallax feature.

It was fantastic to see the evolution of the designs and to have another designer experimenting with code.



Going Forward

Our experiments with parallax scrolling and with other HTML5 techniques are barely scratching the surface.



First and foremost we are about telling the story.

Using parallax scrolling for the Bond feature allowed us to present information in an engaging way that enhances the content without overpowering it and we'll be looking for ways to use this approach again on bigger news stories.



There is much more to be done as more and more of our audience is coming to us via tablets and smart devices which present a whole new set of challenges for us as infographic designers.



This project had the support of the Visual Journalism team, and I'd like to send a big thank you to everyone who helped make it a reality.

Helene Sears is the Editorial Designer for UX&D.

BBC iPlayer October Performance

I’m Dave Price the head of BBC iPlayer and we’ve just published our monthly iPlayer performance pack for October.

We thought the Olympics was the highlight of the year but I’m delighted to tell you that we have broken the 200-million-requests-per-month mark, with 213 million requests for TV and radio programmes last month across all platforms.

This is an increase of +20% year-on-year boosted as usual by the great new autumn TV schedule delivering fantastic stats for iPlayer.

 

October trends

As we also saw during the Olympics, the way people are watching iPlayer on multiple different platforms and devices is changing.

Although PCs are still the most popular platform for watching BBC iPlayer programmes, accounting for around half of requests in October, we saw another significant rise in usage through internet-connected TVs (+25% on September) together with a continuing upward trend for watching BBC iPlayer on mobiles and tablets.

In October 43 million programmes were requested via TV platforms (this includes smart TVs, operator platforms and games consoles) - 20% of all requests - while mobile phones and tablets recorded 28 million and 21 million requests, with year-on-year increases of +168% and +236% respectively, and together now delivering 23% of all requests.

This shows the extent to which internet-connected devices are really starting to penetrate the market and the fact that BBC iPlayer is available on a large range of mobiles and tablets out there.

How this fits with our strategy

One of our key goals for iPlayer in 2012 was to take it beyond the PC and onto a host of different devices, from mobile smartphones and tablets to smart TVs and games consoles.

We want to make it as easy as possible for you to watch and catch up on programmes whenever you want, wherever you want to.

We’re now on over 650 devices and these growth figures really show this strategy is delivering for audiences, making favourite BBC programmes available at a time that suits you.

Last month we launched iPlayer on Sky+ which was a key milestone for us as it means audiences on all major UK TV platforms can watch, listen and catch-up on the best BBC programmes in their living room, whenever and wherever they want.

And earlier this year we launched BBC iPlayer on Xbox - meaning we’re now on all major UK games consoles.

Looking to the future

We see internet-connected TVs as the platform of the future.

It’s no big surprise that when at home, audiences like to watch TV on the best screen in the house - the TV. And it’s not just us thinking this.

YouGov recently published the latest wave of its ‘Smart TV’ study which found that the proportion of people who are looking to buy a smart TV is on the rise

Behind live TV viewing, catch-up TV services like iPlayer are the second most popular activity for smart TV owners, used by a majority of people with these new devices.

Marketing campaign

So, with this in mind we wanted to let our audiences know that this is exactly what they can do. That’s why we’ve just launched our new BBC iPlayer TV advert - ‘Telly on your Telly’ - talking about just that - watching TV on your TV.

Click here to see the advert for yourself and as always, really keen to hear what you think of it.

Dave Price is the Head of BBC iPlayer, Programmes and On Demand, BBC Future Media.

Connected Studio: BBC iPlayer Brief

The ideas wall at a recent Connected Studio

The next couple of weeks are set to be very busy for the Connected Studio team as we prepare for a new year which will involve our back to back Creative Studios - BBC iPlayer and News.

We are still in the middle of our BBC Sport events which I will be posting a full update on soon but for now I am very happy to say that the iPlayer Innovation Brief has been released today and can be found on the Connected Studio site.

The iPlayer product team has focused on three themes:

1. Encouraging users in a continuous experience - what's the easiest and most natural journey from one programme to the next or deeper into related content?

2. Reminding users there's a smart alternative - how could iPlayer remind existing users to return more often? How can iPlayer reach out to users wherever they are? How can existing users help to make the first experience of non-users less overwhelming?

3. Enabling the discovery of hidden treasures - how can we make the browsing experience better, uncovering less obvious gems for new audiences?

A very important thing to note when getting to grips with this Brief is that the iPlayer team are not looking for dual screen/companion ideas or ideas that focus on individual programmes, but rather enhancements that scale across the product.

They will of course consider ideas for specific devices or platforms if they answer the challenges above.

We are now open to applications and details of how to get involved are on our website. The iPlayer Creative Studio does have the potential to fill up quickly - one way to keep right up to date is to join our mailing list, which you can do by emailing connectedstudios@bbc.co.uk

Please find details of our event schedule below:

December 18-19: Sport Build Studio - Salford
January 22: TV iPlayer Creative Studio - London
January 23: News Creative Studio - London
February 11-12: TV iPlayer Build Studio - London
February 13-14: News Build Studio - London
February 21: Knowledge and Learning Creative Studio - Salford
March 5: Radio and Music Creative Studio - London
March 13-14: Knowledge and Learning Build Studio - Salford
March 25-26: Radio and Music Build Studio - London

If you would like to know more about Creative Studio pilots now in development Eleni Sharp, Senior Product Manager for Homepage has been working with Red Badger on their HPSN pilot Now and has written a great blog on how they are getting on.

Adrian Woolard is Programme Lead, BBC Connected Studio.

User Experience and Design: Developing BBC iPlayer Radio

I'm Yasser Rashid the Head of User Experience and Design for TV & iPlayer, Radio & Music. My team work across a range of different digital propositions in the TV and Radio space that include improving current experiences and thinking about future ones.

The launch of BBC iPlayer Radio in October was an important step in the evolution of BBC Radio online. It's the first time we have been able to think about the future of the radio websites in a holistic way.

For the User Experience and Design team responsible for iPlayer Radio it was more than just a redesign. It was a complete rethink of the BBC Radio digital portfolio.

We've made a video to give an insight into what we do and who we are. It's only an overview but if you do have any questions about specific user experience topics then it would be great to hear them.

In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions

There will be a blog post soon about the iPlayer Radio design process.

Yasser Rashid is the Head of User Experience and Design for TV & iPlayer, Radio & Music.

What's on BBC Red Button 24 November - 1 December

David Attenborough past and present

David Attenborough - the early years

Delve into David Attenborough's remarkable 60 years of wildlife broadcasting with specially selected clips from BBC Four's collection on the Red Button.

Available on Freesat/Sky/Virgin Media/Freeview:

Wed 28 Nov, 10pm-4am

Fri 30 Nov, 9.55pm-4am

Antiques Roadshow Play Along

Fiona Bruce presents Antiques Roadshow from Falmouth

Fancy yourself as an armchair antiques expert? Fiona Bruce and the team are at the Falmouth National Maritime Museum again this week unearthing more Cornish finds - why not join them and play along with our Antiques Roadshow quiz by pressing red?

Our valuation game is simple, fun and free to play - simply consider each of the objects featured in the programme, select an option before our experts give their valuation and see how many you get right. Don't forget to tweet your scores to #antiquesroadshow.

Available on Sky/Freeview:

Sun 25 November, 7:55pm-9pm

Dragons' Den

Deborah Meaden

Press red to go behind-the-scenes of the Dragons' Den as we get the inside story on the investments made this week. Find out what makes a top investment for the Dragons and why they went with their choices this week.

Available on Freesat/Sky/Virgin Media/Freeview:

Sun 25 Nov, 9.55-11pm

Tue 27 Nov 12.15-1.25am

Wed 28 Nov, 12-4am

Thur 29 Nov, 9pm-4am

The Rolling Stones

Rock legends The Rolling Stones are 50 this year and we've dug deep into the archive to bring you exclusive rehearsal and performance footage from the band, including 'Tumbling Dice' from Montreux Rehearsals in 1972, 'Black Limousine' performed at Hampton Coliseum in 1981 and 'You Got Me Rocking' from their Twickenham gig in 2003.

Press red to see this previously unseen footage.

Available on Freesat/Sky/Virgin Media/Freeview:

Sun 25 Nov, 12.25-4am

Sun 25 Nov, 9-9.55pm

Strictly Come Dancing

Join former Strictly champion and professional dancer Karen Hardy with Radio 1's Sara Cox as they commentate live on the couples' performances. Expect a mixture of insight and irreverence as they give you the heads up on who's hot and who's not on the dancefloor before the judges have their say. And don't forget about the Strictly blog for more backstage gossip.

Available on Freesat/Sky/Virgin Media/Freeview:

Sat 24 Nov, 6.40-8pm

Sat 1 Dec, 6.50-8pm

Have your say on BBC Online and BBC Red Button

The BBC Trust carries out an in-depth review of each of the BBC's services at least once every five years. This time the Trust is looking at BBC Online and BBC Red Button Services.

The Trust wants your views and suggestions on these services and how they can be improved. There is also space in the consultation to raise any other points not covered by our questions. The consultation is open until 23rd January 2013.

To find out more about the consultation and how to take part, visit the BBC Trust site:
BBC Online and BBC Red Button Service Review

If you would like a paper version sent to you email onlineandredbutton@bbc.co.uk or call 0800 0680 116.

To request the questions in audio or braille please call 0800 0680 116 or textphone 0800 0153 350.

Large print is also available to download via the BBC Trust site:
BBC Online and BBC Red Button Service Review

CBeebies Red Button

BBC Red Button welcomes younger viewers and grown-ups with a sense of adventure to the big, bright and fun world of CBeebies interactive!

Your children's favourite characters are at the heart of the interactive TV experience. Satellite and digital terrestrial viewers will have slightly different offerings
from one another. This has enabled the Red Button team to offer the best games tailored to each system.

CBeebies Red Button is available on the CBeebies channel, and via page 5900 on other channels.

Visit the CBeebies website to find out more.

Available on Freeview and Sky only

BBC Sport

Catch up on all the latest Sport via the BBC Red Button.

Please note that Red Button sport timings are subject to change at short notice.

For the latest information refer to the BBC Sport website.

Highlights

Live coverage of the final Grand Prix of 2012 from Brazil.
Rugby Union: Live coverage from Murrayfield where Scotland host Tonga.
Scrum V: Edinburgh v Ospreys.

**Note all Red Button times are subject to change at short notice.

What's on BBC Red Button 24 November-1 December

David Attenborough past and present

David Attenborough - the early years

Delve into David Attenborough's remarkable 60 years of wildlife broadcasting with specially selected clips from BBC Four's collection on the Red Button.

Available on Freesat/Sky/Virgin Media/Freeview:

Wed 28 Nov, 10pm-4am

Fri 30 Nov, 9.55pm-4am

Antiques Roadshow Play Along

Fiona Bruce presents Antiques Roadshow from Falmouth

Fancy yourself as an armchair antiques expert? Fiona Bruce and the team are at the Falmouth National Maritime Museum again this week unearthing more Cornish finds - why not join them and play along with our Antiques Roadshow quiz by pressing red?

Our valuation game is simple, fun and free to play - simply consider each of the objects featured in the programme, select an option before our experts give their valuation and see how many you get right. Don't forget to tweet your scores to #antiquesroadshow.

Available on Sky/Freeview:

Sun 25 November, 7:55pm-9pm

Dragons' Den

Deborah Meaden

Press red to go behind-the-scenes of the Dragons' Den as we get the inside story on the investments made this week. Find out what makes a top investment for the Dragons and why they went with their choices this week.

Available on Freesat/Sky/Virgin Media/Freeview:

Sun 25 Nov, 9.55-11pm

Tue 27 Nov 12.15-1.25am

Wed 28 Nov, 12-4am

Thur 29 Nov, 9pm-4am

The Rolling Stones

Rock legends The Rolling Stones are 50 this year and we've dug deep into the archive to bring you exclusive rehearsal and performance footage from the band, including 'Tumbling Dice' from Montreux Rehearsals in 1972, 'Black Limousine' performed at Hampton Coliseum in 1981 and 'You Got Me Rocking' from their Twickenham gig in 2003.

Press red to see this previously unseen footage.

Available on Freesat/Sky/Virgin Media/Freeview:

Sun 25 Nov, 12.25-4am

Sun 25 Nov, 9-9.55pm

Strictly Come Dancing

Join former Strictly champion and professional dancer Karen Hardy with Radio 1's Sara Cox as they commentate live on the couples' performances. Expect a mixture of insight and irreverence as they give you the heads up on who's hot and who's not on the dancefloor before the judges have their say. And don't forget about the Strictly blog for more backstage gossip.

Available on Freesat/Sky/Virgin Media/Freeview:

Sat 24 Nov, 6.40-8pm

Sat 1 Dec, 6.50-8pm

Have your say on BBC Online and BBC Red Button

The BBC Trust carries out an in-depth review of each of the BBC's services at least once every five years. This time the Trust is looking at BBC Online and BBC Red Button Services.

The Trust wants your views and suggestions on these services and how they can be improved. There is also space in the consultation to raise any other points not covered by our questions. The consultation is open until 23rd January 2013.

To find out more about the consultation and how to take part, visit the BBC Trust site:
BBC Online and BBC Red Button Service Review

If you would like a paper version sent to you email onlineandredbutton@bbc.co.uk or call 0800 0680 116.

To request the questions in audio or braille please call 0800 0680 116 or textphone 0800 0153 350.

Large print is also available to download via the BBC Trust site:
BBC Online and BBC Red Button Service Review

CBeebies Red Button

BBC Red Button welcomes younger viewers and grown-ups with a sense of adventure to the big, bright and fun world of CBeebies interactive!

Your children's favourite characters are at the heart of the interactive TV experience. Satellite and digital terrestrial viewers will have slightly different offerings
from one another. This has enabled the Red Button team to offer the best games tailored to each system.

CBeebies Red Button is available on the CBeebies channel, and via page 5900 on other channels.

Visit the CBeebies website to find out more.

Available on Freeview and Sky only

BBC Sport

Catch up on all the latest Sport via the BBC Red Button.

Please note that Red Button sport timings are subject to change at short notice.

For the latest information refer to the BBC Sport website.

Highlights

Live coverage of the final Grand Prix of 2012 from Brazil.
Rugby Union: Live coverage from Murrayfield where Scotland host Tonga.
Scrum V: Edinburgh v Ospreys.

**Note all Red Button times are subject to change at short notice.