There was already a short trailer and some mentions on Twitter, but it seems I missed the official announcement: Brian Cox’ and Dara O Briain’s Stargazing Live is going into round  4 next week on January 7, 8 and 9 at 8pm UTC/GMT or 9pm CET on BBC2. The three one-hour broadcasts are as usual followed by an additional half-hour talk called Back to Earth – and of course the Stargazing HQ is again the Jodrell Bank Observatory. Considering the great success of the previous year’s broadcasts, this will be definitively worth watching.

Unfortunately the series has, typically for a BBC live production, never been released on DVD, but all episodes from 2011 and 2011 and the first one from 2013 are still up on Youtube at these links:

• Stargazing 2011 – Episode 1 | Episode 2 | Episode 3
• Stargazing 2012 – Episode 1 | Episode 2 | Episode 3
• Stargazing 2013 – Episode 1

Note: The website is still on semi-hiatus, so unfortunately no new reviews until the beginning of February.