Blankety Blank has been shelved by the BBC after five series, owing to Walsh's busy schedule which is prevented the show going into production this year. Speaking to RadioTimes, Walsh said: "I just don't have the time, which is sad because I've loved Blankety Blank. It's been one of my favourite shows, and it's been brilliant. Blankety Blank has been brilliant... "It really makes me laugh. It's the most fun you can have in the studio, and I just cannot at the moment work on i

Strictly Come Dancing has announced that five new Professional Dancers will join the hit series when it returns to light up Saturday and Sunday nights on the BBC this September. Hailing from the UK, Canada, Italy, South Africa and Ukraine, Strictly’s new fab five have all danced their way to international acclaim and are some of the most exciting talents in dance today. Aleksandra Isaeva grew up in Ukraine and now lives in Italy. A multiple Ukrainian National Latin Champion,

ITV confirms the return of fan-favourite companion show, I’m A Celebrity… Unpacked which will air this autumn on ITV2 and ITVX. As always, the energetic show will delve into all the camp drama, laughs, and chaos of the jungle and dissect everything that is happening on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! The 2026 series will be hosted by former King of the Jungle Sam Thompson and Capital radio DJ Kemi Rodgers. Together they’ll be serving up all the latest behind-the-scenes

Top Trumps: The Comedy Pack (w/t) is a new, original format, which sees one of the nation's favourite card games explode onto the studio floor. Produced by TalkbackThames with Naked, the 8x60 series will be hosted by Katherine Ryan and see an all-star cast of comedians, led by team captains Joel Dommett and Jon Richardson, go head-to-head in this first comedy take on the much-loved game - battling through a mix of classic card face-offs, live studio challenges and bluffing ga

Greg Davies is back as the UK’s favourite crime scene cleaner, Paul ‘Wicky’ Wickstead in a brand-new, one-off special of The Cleaner In Italy (w/t), which will air on BBC iPlayer and BBC One over the festive period. Written by and starring Davies (Taskmaster, The Inbetweeners) and produced by SHUK, the hit comedy once again follows Wicky’s misadventures as a state-certified cleaning technician whose unusual day job involves scrubbing away the grisliest remnants of crime scene

With next year's series of The Voice UK set to enter production imminently - ahead of this year's series airing this Autumn, which was recorded last year - The Sun are reporting Emma Willis has left the show following the announcement of her as one of the new co-hosts of BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing. The newspaper reports that Willis, who will still appear as host of this year's series, will not host the show when it re-enters production later this year. It follows previou

The third series of the BAFTA-winning hit drama Time, written by multi-award-winning screenwriter Jimmy McGovern (Unforgivable, Cracker, The Street) and Samuel Bailey (Shook). Set in a Young Offenders Institution, the series will explore the impact of locking up teenagers and the effects on those who look after them. The new pictures feature David Tennant as Bobby Bailey, a Custodial Manager at the YOI, Siobhan Finneran reprising her role as chaplain Marie-Louise O’Dell, Dan

Claudia Winkleman has revealed she has decided against hosting a second series of her BBC chatshow following its launch earlier this year. The host said: "Sometimes you have to try something to see how it fits, and I realised I was just too nervous to enjoy it. Maybe one day I will give it another try, but for now I already have the best jobs in the world and absolutely love the shows I’m doing. I’m incredibly grateful to the BBC for giving me the opportunity, to the guests w

5 today announces the recommission of critically acclaimed detective drama Cooper & Fry after a successful first series run. The 8x60’ series will again be produced by Clapperboard in association with STUDIO TF1. Adapted from Stephen Booth’s best-selling novels of the same name, Cooper & Fry series two will continue to follow unlikely detective duo Ben Cooper and Diane Fry, played by Robert James-Collier (The Inheritance, Downton Abbey) and Mandip Gill (Doctor Who, Can You

Celebrity Hunted, returns to Channel 4, in aid of Stand Up To Cancer, with a star-studded lineup of celebrity fugitives. Produced by Shine TV (part of Banijay UK), the celebrity fugitives are set to go on the run in early August. The celebrities confirmed to be taking part in the series are: Strictly Come Dancing stars and Professional Dancers Amy Dowden MBE and Carlos Gu; Multi-Faceted Entertainer & Actor Brian Conley and Comedian & Actor Lucy Conley; Love Island duo and TV

The Jessop family are back as filming gets underway for the fourth series of Here We Go, produced by BBC Studios Comedy for BBC iPlayer and BBC One. Created by and starring Tom Basden (The Ballad of Wallis Island), the new series (6x30) sees the acclaimed ensemble cast reunite, with Jim Howick (Ghosts), Katherine Parkinson (Rivals), Alison Steadman (Gavin & Stacey), Freya Parks (This Town), Jude Morgan-Collie (A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder), Tori Allen-Martin (Unforgotten), M

Channel 4 have commissioned a new entertainment pilot from Avalon - the producers of Taskmaster, hosted by Taskmaster's Alex Horne and featuring members of the public as contestants. A teaser shares: "The show will feature five households from around the UK who must pull together as a team at home in order to tackle a host of fun, creative and head-scratching tasks as set by Alex Horne of Taskmaster fame... "The random tasks are designed to require a combination of creativity

ITV today announced a partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery Global Content Sales, with all eleven films of the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts film series available to stream on ITVX now, just in time for the school holidays. The deal sees all eight Harry Potter films, and the three Fantastic Beasts films made available on the platform, which officially makes ITVX the exclusive free-to-stream home of the series. For the duration that the films are available on the platf

Ahead of the highly anticipated launch of series two later this year, Ludwig - the BBC’s biggest scripted series since 2024 - has been commissioned for a third run on BBC iPlayer and BBC One. The series is a Big Talk Studios (part of ITV Studios) production in association with That Mitchell And Webb Company and is a ZDF co-production for Germany. Series one was the biggest launch for a comedy on the BBC since at least 2018, attracting 9.5 million viewers (28-day figure), epis