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CÂ鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú F1

If you like your Formula 1 coverage exciting, funny, informative, irreverent, cheeky and downright fun, you'll find all that and more on the CÂ鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú F1 service!
This Sunday's race promises to be bursting with excitement as the GP comes to these shores at Silverstone. We've got interviews with F1 champion, Damon Hill and we'll be chatting to Formula 1 presenter and ex-CÂ鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú star, Jake Humphrey. You'll hear questions from our audience, comedy sketches, quizzes, crazy challenges, race predictions and some amazing facts!

So tune in for each Grand Prix to hear Michael "Abs" Absalom, F1 expert Perry McCarthy and a CÂ鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú star presenter on the Sport Multiscreen for interviews, sketches and up to date info on what's going on in each race.

Available on race days only:
British GP - 22nd June
Sky, Virgin, Freeview & Freesat

Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Sport Multiscreen*

Catch up on all the latest Sport via the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Sport multiscreen. Headlines are available around the clock with up to five additional streams available to cover the best that Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Sport has to offer.

Coming up...

- Wimbledon 2009*
This year, Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Red Button is offering digital viewers a choice of up to five live matches, plus a highlights service and replays of the tournament's top matches. When there is coverage on Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú One and Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Two, Freeview offers a choice of up to four matches.
As always, over the course of the Wimbledon fortnight, the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú's team of commentators are on hand with expert opinion, but for those viewers who prefer to watch their tennis without commentary Red Button gives the option to switch it off for the true court-side experience.
A digital text service is available with news, results and score updates while on Tuesday evenings from 7pm, Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Radio 5 Live's 6-Love-6 programme will be on hand to discuss every tie-break and tantrum.
Live coverage: 22nd June - 5th July
Highlights: 6th - 8th July

- F1*
F1 fans can customise their viewing experience via the red button with access to all on-track sessions including Friday and Saturday practice and qualifying.
On race day itself a choice of three streams will be available featuring split-screen in-car camera feeds, leaderboards and rolling highlights, with the option to listen to either network or Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Radio 5 Live commentary. After the end of each race on Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú One there will be an additional interactive programme analysing the weekend's events and picking up views from the paddock with race highlights often available the following day.
British GP: 19th - 22nd June

- Football: Confederations Cup
Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Red Button is teaming up with Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Three and Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Online for exclusive coverage of the 8th FIFA Confederations Cup. The tournament is made up of the winners of the six football confederation championships (AFC, CAF, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL, OFC, UEFA) along with World Cup winners Italy and the hosts, South Africa.
All afternoon matches plus the third place play-off will be shown live on Red Button, with evening matches on Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Three.
14th - 28th June
Full schedule available available on the Press Office website

- MotoGP*
As Valentino Rossi looks to defend the title he comfortably won last year join Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Red Button trackside for every twist and turn of the 2009 championship. This season coverage has been expanded to include Saturday afternoon qualifying sessions, re-runs and highlights alongside the existing race day coverage and post-race MotoGP Extra programme.
Assen GP: 26th, 27th June

Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Sport multiscreen is available 24 hours a day
Sky, Virgin, Freesat & Freeview*
(*limited coverage on Freeview)
Please note that Red Button sport timings are subject to change at short notice.
The full Sport Interactive schedule is available on the

Archive Moon Landing

On July 21st Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Red Button will mark the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing picking a classic episode of The Sky at Night from the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú archives. Join Sir Patrick Moore as he introduces an edition from 2007 focussing its telescope on the moon. Chris Lintott reports on the Apollo moon landings and explores the now deserted Mission Control with Eugene Cernan, three-time Apollo astronaut and the man who, since 1972, has held the title 'last man on the moon'.

Sunday 21st June following 'James May on the Moon' (Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Two) &
Wednesday 24th June, following 'James May's 20th Century' (Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Two)
Sky, Virgin & Freeview
(not available on Freesat)

Comedy Extra

With a raft of exciting new comedy airing on Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Two in 2009, digital viewers in the mood to tickle the red buttons on their remotes can keep the laughter going after the show has finished.

This month we've rolled out the red carpet for the new series of That Mitchell and Webb Look. Grab your digital remote after 9pm most evenings as Robert and David introduce a gaggle of sketches you won't see in the main show along with a unique series of animations from their radio show commissioned just for Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Red Button.

That Mitchell and Webb Look Extra
12th - 25th June & 29th June - 3rd July
c.9.30pm - 4am (timings may vary)

Sky, Virgin & Freeview*
*very limited coverage on Freeview
(not available on Freesat)

Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Radio 5live: Mayo and Kermode's Film Review from Edinburgh

For 20 years now Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode have been disagreeing about the latest film releases on air. And this March things reached a whole new level as they locked their critical horns in Leeds in front of a live audience.

Now, with plaudits from the last excursion still ringing in their ears, the duo are repeating the trick at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. This time the event will be filmed with the best bits shown on Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Red Button. Simon's even promised the Good Doctor Kermode an appearance by a silver screen celebrity of "substantial size". Whether he was talking physical dimensions or international renown we're not sure, but we'll be pressing red to find out!

Friday 19th - Sunday 21st June, 7.30pm - 4am daily
Sky, Virgin & Freeview
(not available on Freesat)

Blue Peter: Behind the Scenes

Nine months into the job and Blue Peter presenter Joel Defries looks pretty comfortable in front of the camera - you might say he's a natural. But how would he fare if asked to step over to the other side of the lens? Well Red Button viewers are about to find out as he takes the reins of CÂ鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú's flagship programme for the first time, directing his fellow presenters and studio crew. This might just be Joel's toughest challenge yet.

Tuesday 16th - Sunday 21st June (daytime only)
Sky, Virgin & Freeview
(not available on Freesat)

Question Time Interactive

Take part in the studio debate by sending a text message to the Question Time team.
Each week a selection of viewers' comments will appear during the programme on Red Button page 155 along with details of the panel and the topics under discussion.

Thursday 25th June & 2nd July, during the show (Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú One)
Sky, Virgin, Freesat & Freeview

CBeebies Games

From Little Cook's kitchen to Bob the Builder's construction site, there's always somewhere different to explore under the red button!
Here's what's coming up...

15th - 21st June
Sky: Bob the Builder, Balamory, Tweenies (story)
Freeview: Postman Pat, Bob the Builder
Virgin: Tikkabilla

22nd - 28th June
Sky: Tweenies, Tikkabilla, Tweenies (story)
Freeview: Tikkabilla
Virgin: Roly Mo

29th June - 5th July
Sky: Bob the Builder, Little Cook, Tweenies (story)
Freeview: Bill and Ben, Fimbles
Virgin: Tikkabilla

(not available on Freesat)

Radio Red Button

Did you know that Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Red Button offers a round-the-clock service via the radio channels on Freeview, Freesat and Virgin? As you listen, the audio is complemented by glanceable LiveText, such as details of the track being playing, sports scores and news headlines. For those who want to dig deeper, pressing the red button launches programme information, station news and links to related eTV events. Every national Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú radio station has its own bespoke service. Alongside those ten national stations, five of the nation's stations and five regional stations also have their own Red Button service on Virgin Media.

A recent reshuffle of services on Freeview meant that we were able to extend the full radio interface to listeners of the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú World Service in the UK – around one and a half million of them at the last count.

World Service Red Button on Freeview offers live information about the station including whatÂ’s on now and next, the full programme schedule, the latest world news headlines and a look at what's coming soon. With the station offering such a rich mix of world news, investigations, documentaries, debate and discussion, daily business, science, arts and sport we hope the service will help listeners around the schedule to the programmes that interest them most.

Red Button Radio is available on
Virgin, Freesat & Freeview
(not available on Sky)