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: UK pubcaster The BBC‘s commercial arm BBC Worldwide has launched BBC Lifestyle in Indonesia on the newly launched digital pay TV service, Nexmedia.

Nexmedia, owned by PT Elang Mahkota Teknologi Tbk (EMTEK Group), is a flexible plug and play TV service.

BBC Worldwide Channels Asia senior VP, GM Mark Whitehead said, "Indonesia is a major market for us in Asia with the pay-television market there offering enormous room for growth. Two of our other channels, BBC Knowledge and CBeebies, already in the market, are doing extremely well, with both channels consistently rating among the top three among the factual and preschool genres respectively. We are confident that BBC Lifestyle will be just as popular."

Nexmedia president, commissioner David Goldstein said, "We are thrilled to be partnering with BBC. High quality content is a key factor in driving our subscription growth. We are confident that BBC Lifestyle will make Nexmedia‘s channel line-up stronger and more competitive."

BBC Lifestyle offers inspiration for home, family and life with programmes on home and design, food, fashion and style, to entertain, engage and inspire viewers.

The channel is home to Gordon Ramsay‘s latest series as well as ‘Grand Designs‘, where architect, best-selling author and Presenter Kevin McCloud follows some of Britain‘s most ambitious self-building projects, as intrepid individuals attempt to design and construct the home of their dreams.

The launch of BBC Lifestyle on Nexmedia follows closely the formal launch of BBC Knowledge, BBC Lifestyle and BBC Entertainment in Taiwan three weeks ago.

MUMBAI: The British Broadcasting Corp. is seriously upping the ante in the digital domain. Coming close on the heels of the multi-year content deal it struck with YouTube, the BBC has forged a straOne of the first projects will focus on applying image/video search technologies to CBeebies and CBBC programmes. This IBM Research system, code-named "Marvel," has the ability to visually analyse images/video to categorise the content based on appearance and make it more searchable. The project will utilise Marvel to create a compelling set of multimedia interactive search experiences for accessing BBC children?s content online.

Ashley Highfield, BBC director of future media & technology, said: "This alliance with IBM will offer new and genuinely innovative services to our audiences. For example, combining the BBC?s massive TV and radio archive with IBM?s cutting-edge research into video and audio search technology should provide the means to unlocking huge latent value in our long tail of content."

In addition, IBM will work with the BBC?s official technology partner Siemens to deploy a pilot of their Media Hub technology in order to trial new business processes and ways of working amongst the BBC?s creative teams. The pilot follows the recent deployment by Siemens of IBM?s WebSphere products, which sit at the centre of the BBC?s service oriented architecture.

Steve Canepa, IBM?s vice president for media and entertainment, said: "We look forward to collaborating with the BBC on these exciting and innovative new areas. IBM?s combination of media and entertainment industry solution capability, R&D investment, services skills and technologies will help us to ensure that the BBC remains one of the most advanced media companies in the world."

IBM is also discussing potential collaboration projects with the BBC in areas including content distribution; customer relations management; joint research; and rights management. Siemens, the BBC?s technology partner, will work in conjunction with the BBC and IBM.

The BBC has a well-established relationship with IBM spanning many years in consultancy, training, development support, and results and analysis for major sporting events.

tegic alliance with IBM for several joint projects.