Matt Berry and Richard Ayoade join Sonic The Hedgehog 4
Comics cast in $1billion franchise
19/03/2026 … Matt Berry and Richard Ayoade have joined the Sonic The Hedgehog universe.
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Thu 19 March 2026
Katherine Ryan and Jon Richardson in Withering Heights
Parody sketch for Comic Relief
19/03/2026 … Move over, Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi.
Wed 18 March 2026
When is the Ghosts movie out?
Release date set as first image released
18/03/2026 … The Ghosts movie The Possession of Button House is to be released in time for Halloween, distributor Lionsgate has announced.
Filming starts on Frankie Boyle's Meantime
18/03/2026 … Sky has released the first still from the set of the TV adaptation of Frankie Boyle’s novel Meantime – confirming that James McAvoy will be taking…
Roy Wood Jr. returns to Have I Got News For You UK
US host to front the first episode of series 71
18/03/2026 … American comedian Roy Wood Jr.
Comic Relief films a Traitors sketch
Reimagining the reality show as a Hollywood movie
18/03/2026 … Ruby Wax, Jessica Hynes and Iain Stirling have filmed a Traitors sketch for Comic Relief.
© Matt Squire Mackenzie Crook hopes for a second series of Small Prophets
As it becomes the biggest scripted launch of 2026 so far
18/03/2026 … Mackenzie Crook has teased a second series of Small Prophets after the BBC revealed it was the broadcaster’s biggest new scripted show of the year so far.
Sean Hughes's homes given to Shelter
£4m of properties had been caught in legal limbo
18/03/2026 … Three homes owned by Sean Hughes have been given to a homeless charity after more than eight years in limbo.