© Matt Squire Air date for Mackenzie Crook’s Small Prophets
Fantasy comedy coming next month
05/01/2026 … The BBC has given a provisional broadcast date for Mackenzie Crook’s new comedy Small Prophets.
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Mon 05 January 2026
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Rob Rouse named comics' comic of 2025
Rich Wilson was named best MC and the Raymond and Mr Timpkins Revue take best achievement
05/01/2026 … Rob Rouse has won the 2025 Comics' Comics Award for best act.
First memoir for The Daily Tism writer
Laura Richmond's book about having undiagnosed autism
05/01/2026 … Laura Richmond, a writer on satirical news website The Daily Tism, is publishing her first memoir.
Sun 04 January 2026
Fekken brilliant!
The best of the week's live comedy
04/01/2026 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 6,407 events Chortle currently has listed.
© BBC Studios Black Ops returns... now set in MI5
The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand
04/01/2026 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week.
Jack Whitehall launches a 'cool Dragon's Den'
Comic is one of the stars behind new investment scheme
04/01/2026 … Jack Whitehall has launched an investment fund dubbed 'a cool version of Dragons Den'.
Sat 03 January 2026
Colin Mochrie has emergency eye surgery
03/01/2026 … Whose Line Is It Anyway star Colin Mochrie is undergoing emergency surgery for a detached retina.
© Avalon / C4 Officially revealed: The contestants in series 21 of Taskmaster
Including the second US-based comedian
03/01/2026 … The names of the contestants in the next series of Taskmaster have been officially announced.