Presenter Danny Baker has landed a new BBC Four TVshow celebrating great albums, weeks after quitting his BBC London radio showlive on air.
He will hostthe three-part discussion show, one of the channel's highlights announced forthe forthcoming year.
Italiandetective series Inspector Montalbano will return along with a prequel, calledYoung Montalbano.
The channel hasalso bought hit US show Parks and Recreation, starring Rob Lowe and AmyPoehler.
Currently inits fifth series in the US, the show has achieved a cult following in the UKthrough DVD sales.
Stationcontroller Richard Klein called the Emmy-nominated show - which follows theantics of an Indiana town's public officials - "one of America's smartestcomedy series".
"Toaccompany this, the channel is taking a year-long look at comedy, with a dramafrom award-winning writer Nigel Williams about PG Wodehouse and filmscelebrating some of our oldest jokes, exploring what makes us laugh and showcasingsome of our most popular comedians, from Richard Pryor to Simon Amstell,"Klein said.
BBC Four hasbecome renowned for its Friday night music documentaries on artists includingPrince, Chas And Dave and Squeeze.
Klein said thechannel's new album show, fronted by Baker, "won't be the top 10 that itusually is".
"We'regoing to celebrate the album. There's a 'golden age of the album' which we'regoing to look at," he said.
"It's nota list show. The principal point about the golden age of the album is to say:what is it that makes an album great? What are the qualities you need tohave?"
Baker, whostill broadcasts on BBC Radio 5 live, bowed out of his afternoon BBC Londonprogramme with a two-hour on-air rant earlier this month, after he learned fromhis agent that the show would be axed later this year.
The presenterhit out repeatedly at the BBC during the programme, in which he called hisbosses "weasels".
The Killing effect
BBC Four hashad huge success with foreign dramas such as Wallander, The Bridge and TheKilling, which returned for a third season on Saturday night with more than amillion viewers.
Italian dramaInspector Montalbano will return after a second successful run, while fans willalso get an insight into the Sicilian crimefighter's youth.
The prequelYoung Montalbano, set in the early 1990s and also written by Andrea Camilleri,has already been a hit with critics in Italy.Hinterland, anew detective series based in the coastal Welsh town of Aberystwyth, has alsobeen commissioned. It stars Richard Harrington as DCI Tom Mathias, a brilliantbut troubled man on the run from his past.
New drama AnInnocent Abroad, starring Tim Pigott-Smith and Zoe Wanamaker, will tell thestory of writer PG Wodehouse's fall from grace and how he became a pawn in thebiggest propaganda battle of World War II.
Richard E Grantfollows in the footsteps of artists who have lived, loved and painted onFrance's glorious Cote d'Azur in The Riviera: A History In Pictures, one of twonew series exploring the history and art of France, while Dr Michael Mosleyexperiences Pain, Pus And Poison.
Otherhighlights include a Storyville biography of legendary performer and stand-upRichard Pryor, which has been authorised by his family.
Savile scandal
ControllerKlein also revealed that the BBC could drop its archive repeats of Top Of ThePops in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal.
The programmeshave been screened since early last year but editions have had to be examinedclosely since revelations of Savile's abuse, with some shows dropped.
Klein said hehad not yet come to a decision about whether to continue the programmes nextyear.
"At the momentwe haven't actually scheduled 1978. We've only done it the last two years so ifwe didn't do it again it wouldn't be the end of the world, and audience figureshave declined."
He revealed theBBC had decided that showing sex offender Gary Glitter "would bewrong" following a further arrest this month.
Klein addedthat it had become a complex process: "These are judgment decisions thatwe're making about what we think is right, and it's largely case-by-case and Ithink it requires us to be cautious and careful without overreacting, to takeinto account public sensibilities to take into account legalities.
"These areall judgements we have to make, and hopefully we're going to get it right."
Source: BBC
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