With a little bit more time on my hands, I’ve had the chance to think about some of my other blogs - and I quite quickly came to the conclusion that I had too many. Who really needs seven blogs? Really? A couple of them were on hiatus, never to be added to again. Some of them have an unknown future, but whatever future they do have, it will take place here.

The short answer: There were three Baby Panda Thursdays in a row on this blog. The long answer: I wrote The BBC Blog for a month and it was great fun. A lot of it was repeating press releases, and although it was good learning about things as I wrote them, and sourced pictures for them, there’s no reason I can’t just subscribe to the BBC Press Office feed and learn that way.

The human resources at the BBC - called BBC People - have a new director. Lucy Adams will take up the post on 1st June replacing Stephen Kelly who has moved to another company. Adams comes to the BBC from Eversheds LLP, and has been Director of HR at a couple of companies previously. The Director role at the Beeb encompasses training, motivation, change management and recruitment, and Adams will lead 475 employes in the HR division.

Some of the new blogs that have been released recently (for instance, Jake Humphrey’s new blog on the F1 section of the site) had a new look that didn’t match the existing columns. Now it seems as though the other blogs will be moved over to the new design gradually, with the internet blog one of the first to move. The new look is much cleaner and matches the rest of the site, and it makes the different elements of each blog (links, subscription options, photos) much easier to find.

Radio 4 has announced they’ll be bringing the weekly children’s show Go4it to an end, with the intent of making the station more family-friendly in general. In order to keep up the children’s broadcasting though, Radio 7 will change their schedule to include a breakfast show for kids, every day. The CBeebies show on Radio 7 will move to an early morning slot (5-8am) every single day, from April. One of the aspects of the decision behind this change is to encourage children to listen to radio around their daily routine - but the BBC will be monitoring how listenership relates to the CBeebies shows on BBC Two.

I have never watched a minute of this show, but it’s certainly very popular, as it’s been recommissioned for a fifth series. Waterloo Road covers stories in and around a school, including both the adults and the teens attending. For the new series, the school is being merged with another, which will no doubt create a raft of new story arcs and characters. Eva Pope returns, and although there are no confirmations as yet, it looks like Angela Griffin and Denise Welch will both be back on our screens as well, along with other regulars.

There have been a few tweaks on the site that are worth mentioning, the first is on the news homepage. The ticker at the top of the front page has changed slightly to display both latest news and breaking new. There is also more control over the ticker, with a pause button plus forward and back controls. The idea is that the more important breaking news stories will show with white text on a red background, whilst the latest headlines is red on white.

A new natural history programme for BBC One is going to take a look at the earth through the eyes of birds. Called Earth Flight, the series of five episodes will travel with various birds as they make their journeys across the earth. From the press release: Using cutting edge new filming techniques to show everything in exquisite detail, viewers have a uniquely privileged perspective flying 9,000 metres high over the sands of the Sahara or skimming metres over the Great Wall of China.

Radio 2 is introducing a new line-up of presenters to Saturdays, bringing in Paul O’Grady, Emma Forbes and Alan Carr. They are also changing the schedules around to spice things up, with Sunday afternoons changing as well. O’Grady also makes the transition to Sundays, with Johnnie Walker appearing on Sunday afternoons. Paul hosted a popular Christmas Day show in 2008, playing a range of music, and he has also covered for Elaine Paige on a Sunday when required.

Jana Bennet - Director of BBC Worldwide - announced late last year that commissioning at the Beeb was to undergo a restructuring of sorts. The idea is to split roles into more genre-based divisions, allowing for specialists to get their knowledge across. These are the confirmations we know so far, and I will add more as they are revealed. Alan Tyler - Executive Editor, Entertainment Commissioning (from Head of Comedy at BBC Scotland) Jo Street - Daytime Commissioning Executive Martin Davidson - Commissioning Editor for History and Business Jo Ball - Commissioning Editor for Features on BBC One and Two Emma Swain - Head of Knowledge Commissioning There’s a lot of fancy titles there, aren’t there?