TRAVEL MAN AXED BY CHANNEL 4 AFTER TEN YEARS ON SCREENS

Travel Man, the travelogue format fronted by Richard Ayoade and most recently by Joe Lycett, has been axed by Channel 4 after ten years, according to The Sun.

The format saw Richard or Joe show us where we’re going wrong by having the most efficient holiday possible, with all the boring bits taken out. Each week, they jetted off to exciting locations from Iceland to Barcelona and Istanbul to Marrakech.

They didn't travel alone. Each week, a different celebrity travel companion, including Kathy Burke, Adam Hills, Jessica Hynes and Stephen Mangan jetted off with the intrepid Travel Man.

Meanwhile, Joe Lycett can be seen in The Lycett Arms on Friday nights on Channel 4. And it’s a pub with a difference - because it will only be open for an hour a week. During that hour, it will operate as the setting for Joe’s new live Channel 4 series The Lycett Arms, launching Friday 4th September at 10pm, and featuring top drawer comedy entertainment from Joe and a pub full of celebrity guests.

Broadcasting live on Channel 4 every Friday at 10pm, The Lycett Arms (6x60”) takes place inside Joe Lycett’s own pub, a technicolour, paisley-carpeted East London boozer where punters can escape the world while putting the world to rights.

The pub will be frequented by a cast of regulars, old friends and strangers all welcomed with open (Lycett) arms by Joe and his weekly celebrity Pub manager. Each week The Lycett Arms will twin with a different pub from across the UK, celebrating what is special about Britain’s locals. Live, anarchic, and with the wheels threatening to come off at any moment, The Lycett Arms is a love letter to the great British pub.

The Lycett Arms continues Fridays on Channel 4.