STILL TO COME THIS YEAR IN ENTERTAINMENT, NEW AND RETURNING TITLES REVEALED

A look ahead to the new and returning entertainment series set to air this Autumn...

Strictly Come Dancing

Series 23

Strictly Come Dancing will be waltzing it’s way back onto screens this Autumn for another series bringing joy, laughter and a serious amount of dance to audiences all across the UK.

Made by BBC Studios Entertainment and broadcast on BBC One and BBC iPlayer, Strictly continues to capture the hearts of the nation. The latest run was the BBC’s biggest Unscripted series in 2024 with the main show averaging 8.8m viewers across the series with 10.1m tuning into the final.

The Wheel

Series 6

BAFTA award-winning Michael McIntyre is back with his hit Saturday-night gameshow that's packed with huge stars, big laughs, and a colossal spinning wheel! Three contestants hope to answer their way to a fortune, guided by seven celebrities, but can they help them to win life-changing cash? That all depends on the spin of The Wheel

RuPaul's Drag Race UK

Series 7

International drag icon, RuPaul, is back in Blighty with his award winning, cult competitive reality show. So control your excitement as twelve amazing drag queens compete to be crowned The UK’s Next Drag Race Superstar in one of the world’s most glamorous, funniest, and fiercely entertaining reality TV competitions.

MasterChef: The Professionals

Series 16

More contestants will demonstrate their outstanding skills, commitment and creativity to convince the judges they are worthy of the highly esteemed title.

Alan Carr's Picture Slam

Series 3

In each round, the teams consisting of two contestants will be presented with a board full of images they need to correctly identify against the clock. If they clear a full board with correct answers for a ‘Picture Slam’ they’ll receive a cash bonus. Only the team who makes it to the final will take home any of their banked cash and, if they can find all the required pictures, they’ll take home the jackpot.

The Inner Circle

New Series

Across each episode, contestants will battle to win the cash prize and will be tested not just on what they know - but which of their fellow players they can trust. As the contestants make their way through a series of games and challenges they’ll need to decide which of their opponents they’d be prepared to join forces with in order to take home the prize…but in a gripping finale, could each of the final two face the ultimate betrayal?

Richard Osman's House Of Games

Series 9

More celebrities test their quiz knowledge in a succession of fast-paced entertaining rounds of knowledge based games, selected by Richard Richard will cross-examine the competitive celebrities as they attempt to show off their quizzing skills. Each show finishes with a quick fire round deciding the daily winner, culminating with the week’s champion crowned on the Friday.

The Answer Run

Series 2

The innovative programme format sees three pairs of contestants battle it out in a fast paced, quick-thinking general knowledge quiz show, where contestants are always one swipe away from banking the cash or crashing out. Families watching at home can also play along and test how they would fair when facing The Run!.

Deal Or No Deal

Series 3

Each week, a contestant is confronted with 22 sealed boxes, each one hiding a different amount of money. Without knowing what each one contains, the contestant must eliminate the boxes, which are opened one at a time, and the amount of money inside is revealed. 

Pressure mounts as the player is tempted by the notorious Banker to accept an offer of cash in exchange for what might be inside their box. As long as the larger cash prizes remain unchosen, the Banker’s offers will get higher. But that can all change in an instant if a big cash prize is unveiled.

Win Win

New Series

Comedy duo Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins will host, with each show packed with humour, drama and life-changing decisions. Playing survey questions based on the views of the Great British public, a 40-strong group of studio contestants, and viewers, play to win prizes including dream holidays, luxury cars, and tickets to some of the world’s biggest sporting and entertainment events.

You Bet! On Tour

New Series

For this series, the iconic show is heading out of the studio as each episode sees a panel of celebrities including Holly Willoughby, Zoe Ball, Rob Beckett, Alex Brooker, Rylan Clark, Alesha Dixon, Alison Hammond, Babatunde Aléshé, Josie Gibson, Danny Jones, Eddie Kadi, Judi Love, Oti Mabuse, Nick Mohammed, AJ Odudu, Will Best, Greg Rutherford, Adam and Ryan Thomas, Johnny Vegas and Josh Widdicombe join Stephen at a different location across the UK.

Password

Series 2

Password is a hilarious word association game where a celebrity pair sup with contestants and give one-word clues to help their teammate guess a mystery “password”. The teams must try and get on each other’s wavelengths, as they take it in turns to guess the all-important password across multiple rounds.

Romesh Ranganathan's Parents' Evening

Series 2

The hit primetime celebrity game show, which tests parents' knowledge of their kids' general knowledge, will see Romesh team up once more with his hilarious score-keeping mum, Shanthi. It's the show where it doesn’t matter what you know, it’s what your mum or dad think you know.

The 1% Club: Rollover

New Series

The 1% Club Rollover enables the prize pot that’s not won on one show, to rollover to the next day’s show. If all the pots rollover, there could be an astonishing amount of up to £500,000 won.

The Rollover has another rule, anyone who gets as far as the 1% question automatically comes back to compete again. This means that if someone wins big on one show, they get to come back for the next day’s show where they could potentially win the Prize Pot again and in effect, double (or even treble or quadruple) their winnings. 

Dress The Nation

Series 2

The series will document the search process from start to finish: over the course of six episodes, 10 candidates will compete to secure a highly coveted in-house design role working alongside some of the best designers in the industry at M&S’ colleague support centre in Paddington, London. 

Over the course of the recruitment process, the 10 candidates will be set a series of briefs which will assess their design, problem-solving, commerciality and collaboration skills. 

The Great British Bake Off

Series 16

Over 10 weeks, 12 of the best amateur bakers in Britain will whisk, knead, ice, beat and bake their way through classic British cakes, perfect patisserie, Italian delights, sticky caramel constructions and elaborate layered puddings. All Twelve will be hoping to impress with their skill, creativity, knowledge and passion and clinch the Bake off Crown.

Gogglebox

Series 26

From the Saturday night juggernauts and the week’s big soaps, to documentaries and gritty drama, the Gogglebox households offer witty, insightful, feisty and sometimes emotional critiques of the week’s popular and topical TV shows. Their reviews could also be interrupted by breaking news stories and controversial TV events – subjects the outspoken households certainly won’t be shying away from.

Taskmaster

Series 20

Preparing themselves to step into the spotlight and get tasking are; critically-acclaimed breakthrough comic Ania Magliano, comedian and presenter Maisie Adam, award-winning comic Phil Ellis, BAFTA-winning writer, actor, and comedian Reece Shearsmith, and actor, writer, and television presenter Sanjeev Bhaskar. Who out of these brave individuals will outwit their comrades and impress the Taskmaster the most? 

The Last Leg

Series 33

A live studio audience and celebrity guests will join in with Adam, Alex and Josh on ‘The Last Leg’ sofa, as the gang tackle the issues of the week. The show also sees the return of the all-encompassing question: Is It Ok? Viewers at home and the live studio audience will be encouraged to ask this question about anything from the week, without fear of judgement.

Transmission details will be announced in due course.