Alex Jones is joining the presenting lineup for BBC Children in Need’s 2026 Appeal Show, which will air on Friday 13 November on BBC One and iPlayer. A long-standing supporter of the charity, Alex is the first presenter to be revealed as part of this year’s presenting team, with further announcements taking place in the lead-up to the charity’s flagship fundraising show. Alex Jones says: “I’m absolutely delighted to be joining this year’s BBC Children in Need presenting team.

Channel 4 has partnered with Beiersdorf's NIVEA BLACK & WHITE Deodorant on a brand-new social branded entertainment format, Fresh from the Noughties with Miquita Oliver. The show follows three Gen Z participants as they step back into the world of the noughties, immersing themselves in the style, confidence and culture of the era, hosted by T4 icon Miquita Oliver. With support from aspirational millennial and celebrity stylist Ayishat Akanbi who lived through the decade firs

Following an award-winning first series, which won two BAFTA Cymru awards (Best Entertainment Programme, Breakthrough Award), as well as the RTS Cymru Award for Comedy, Valleys-born writers Adam Llewellyn (also Director and Lead Animator), James Prygodzicz and Thomas Rees return with 12 new episodes of the offbeat, animated comedy The Golden Cobra, arriving on BBC iPlayer and BBC Three from Saturday 26 September. In the second series we return to Ebbw Vale and with Ernish, ow

After just two weeks of new episodes, ITV have reverted back to showing repeats of The Chase each weekday. Repeats kick in from today (Monday 21st September), despite new episodes originally being scheduled. Bradley Walsh hosts the daytime quiz which sees four strangers come together to beat on the the best quizzers in the country. The Governess, The Vixen, The Menace, The Dark Destroyer, The Beast and The Sinnerman all return. Meanwhile, the air date for the next series of

Here's a full rundown of what to expect in tonight's episode of Big Brother, which continues on ITV2 and ITVX. LYNX AND YASMIN TALK ABOUT JOHANNE In the garden, Lynx and Yasmin are talking about the situation between Lynx, Chelsey and Johanne. Yasmin says, “I chatted to her last night about Chelsey, she was just like, ‘Chelsey needs to like give me some grace to know that I would never come for her like that’. And I was like, ‘you should take extra care in like using her nam

The biggest range of Strictly Come Dancing programming on BBC iPlayer ever is led by new show Strictly: Lights Up, and further fab new exclusives and features for this year's hotly-anticipated series. Hosted by comedian Abi Clarke and presenter and Strictly alum Tyler West, Strictly: Lights Up will be available exclusively on BBC iPlayer every Sunday night immediately after the results show has finished. Abi and Tyler will take viewers straight on to the Strictly dance floor

The BBC has announced cast joining Aoife Hinds and Billy Howle in The Ministry of Time. The series is based on Kaliane Bradley’s bestselling debut novel of the same name and is adapted by Alice Birch (Normal People, The End We Start From, Dead Ringers). Aneil Karia (Top Boy, The Gold, Surge) is the lead director on the six-part series, which is produced by A24 (Beef, Such Brave Girls, Dreaming Whilst Black) for BBC iPlayer and BBC One. The Ministry of Time is a newly establis

ITV drama, Bad Blood, tells the story of how more than 30,000 people were administered contaminated blood and blood products between the 1970s and the early 1990s, resulting in life-shattering chronic illnesses and more than 3,000 deaths. The negligence and subsequent cover-up represents what Andy Burnham calls "perhaps the greatest untold injustice in the history of our country".Bad Blood is written by BAFTA award-winning screenwriter Peter Moffat (Your Honor, Criminal Justi

Graham Norton welcomes the biggest stars of film, TV and music on to his sofa for chat, performances and comedy. Across the series the cream of the celebrity crop will delight viewers with tales from the most-talked about TV series and movies. Plus, the biggest Hollywood stars will exclusively discuss the movie moments that have kept the nation on the edge of their seats. The hottest actors, musicians, broadcasters and comedians will appear alongside stars of the stage and

Details of the new BBC Arts documentary featuring Her Majesty Queen Camilla were revealed today at The Queen’s Reading Room Festival, which returned to Chatsworth. Broadcasting in the National Year of Reading 2026, the documentary sees Queen Camilla explore the transformative power of reading, meeting four remarkable people whose lives have been changed by books at moments when they most needed them. Warm, emotional, and full of hope, the film explores how reading can lift us

Ride or Die followed best friends Debbie Claybourne (Octavia Spencer) and Judith Burton (Hannah Waddingham) who thought they knew everything about each other, except Judith turns out to be an international assassin. When a mysterious figure emerges from Judith’s past and a hit goes horribly wrong, both of their worlds are turned upside down as they’re forced to go on the run together. It’s a race against time and a road trip across Europe, with law enforcement, highly trained

Hit ITV quiz The 1% Percent club is to welcome families of 3-5 members to the studio for the first time for the show's fist New Year's special. A teaser shared: "We are looking for family groups of 3, 4 and 5 to take part for the chance to win up to £100,000. Do your grandparents want to get involved? Have you got in laws that you want impress? Do you need your adult children to get to the 1% question and win big so they can move out? We are looking for all different groups o

Here's a full rundown of what to expect in tonight's episode of Big Brother, which continues on ITV2 and ITVX. DOUBLE TROUBLE ARRIVE IN THE BIG BROTHER HOUSE Big Brother gathers the Housemates at the sofas. Big Brother says, “Housemates, when you entered the Big Brother House, I told you that each week we would bring something new and unexpected. A new week, a new challenge. Welcome to the house of Double Trouble.” “This week, two heads may prove better than one. You will be

The Other Bennet Sister is returning to BBC iPlayer and BBC One for a three-part Christmas special produced by Bad Wolf for the BBC and BritBox North America. Screenwriter Sarah Quintrell, who wrote nine of the ten episodes of the series, will return to write all three episodes based on storylines by author Janice Hadlow. Asim Abbasi, who directed five episodes of the series, will also return to direct. The series, which will shoot primarily in Wales this summer, will see the

Shakespeare & Hathaway returns for its sixth series, with the UK premiere on U&alibi. Love is in the air when Lu Shakespeare (Jo Joyner) and Frank Hathaway (Mark Benton) investigate a rather unique dating agency while Lu gets word that her sister Lia is getting married. Could handsome stranger Cassius make the perfect plus one for the wedding? Meanwhile Sebastian's acting dreams may be about to come true, and we meet enthusiastic new assistant Bea Gardiner who is keen to make

Daniel Mays (Line of Duty, A Thousand Blows, The Thursday Murder Club), Joel Fry (Alice and Steve, Inside No. 9, Paddington in Peru) and Amit Shah (Murder Before Evensong, Happy Valley, Mr Bates Vs The Post Office) star in Wild; a survival dramedy set in the breath-taking yet unforgiving Scottish Highlands. Lou (Mays), Dev (Shah), and Alistair (Fry), three old friends clinging to their annual wild camping tradition, begin with banter, nostalgia, and amateur vlogging, but soon

Nick Knowles, Designer Gabrielle Blackman and the much-loved team will once again be joined by an army of volunteers, trades and local suppliers from across the UK to take on some of their most ambitious and challenging projects yet. Alongside the purple shirt regulars - electrician Billy Byrne and plasterer Chris Frediani - the team welcomes fresh faces this series: woodworker Radha Siyver and gardener Ashley Edwards, who bring new skills and ideas to the DIY SOS family. For

The long-running topical and satirical entertainment show delivers comic observations and scripted gags, from the satirical to the surreal, through the highly original mechanism of a quiz about the news. Each week team captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton welcome a who's who of hosts and welcome a gaggle of guest panellists to find the funny in the week's big stories. In the first episode of the series, Richard Ayoade hosts, with guest pannelist broadcaster Gyles Brandreth joi

Jamie Oliver is to return to Channel 4 with new eight-episode series titled Jamie's 20 Minute Meals. The new series is a one-shot cooking show with each episode featuring two meals that are cooked up in less than 20 minutes. With each meal filmed in one continuous take, Oliver will prove that dinner can be made in the 20 minute timeframe, and due to the nature of production will mean the chef will be forced to embrace all the slip ups that come along with home cookery. Tim Ha

Hulu Original series from the UK, “The Real Rooneys”, will premiere on 24th September and has revealed a taste of what's to come in an official teaser trailer. In the 10-episode series, Coleen and Wayne Rooney have invited cameras into their home for a pivotal year in their lives. It's all change as Wayne steps away from football management, swapping the touchline for school runs, while Coleen embraces the biggest opportunities of her career, including designing her own Prima

Rob Beckett will host the new series, as 12 new fortune seekers face more enticing temptations, harsher terrain and even higher stakes in this hilarious high-stakes adventure show. Following two hugely successful series, the popular show will once again challenge a brand-new group of contestants to trek through the Malaysian jungle armed with nothing but basic supplies and their own willpower. Starting with a pot of £300,000, the group must decide if they want to save the po

Brothers follows McConaughey and Harrelson, who play fictionalized versions of themselves, and whose lifelong friendship is thrown into chaos when they uncover a decades-old secret: they might actually be brothers. After Woody’s daughter’s wedding falls apart, he loads up the family and heads to Austin for an extended stay at Matthew’s ranch. But what begins as a healing getaway quickly spirals when Matthew’s mother, Ma Mac (played by Holland Taylor), accidentally lets slip a

YOUTH follows a 50-year-old divorcee’s search for sex and love whilst juggling caring for her ailing parents and parenting her should-be grown up son. The cast includes: Sharon Horgan (Alex), Rupert Friend (Patrick), Sharlene Whyte (Sam), Aran Murphy (Ruari), and Robbie Gee (Frank). The HBO Original comedy series YOUTH, created by and starring Sharon Horgan, lands Monday 21st September on HBO.

Simon Cowell has been forced to pull out of Britain's Got Talent filming next month after undergoing back surgery, The Sun newspaper reports. The tabloid reports that production company Fremantle are currently looking for a "male comedian" to take Cowell's spot for some of the auditions, with some dates beign rescheduled for January to ensure Cowell can still appear in the audition stages. Ant & Dec will lead the nation through a new round of unforgettable auditions as perfor