© CNN/Hat Trick CNN renews the US Have I Got News For You
13/05/2026 … The American version of Have I Got News For You has been recommissioned by CNN for a fifth series, premiering on September 12.
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© Channel 4 Ania Magliano to host the Rose d'Or awards
SNL star to front the international TV awards
13/05/2026 … Ania Magliano from Sky's Saturday Night Live UK, has been announced as host of this year's prestigious international Rose d'Or TV awards.
© C4/Merman/2LE Rosie Jones’s Pushers is given the push
Channel 4 won't be renewing comedian's drug-dealing sitcom
13/05/2026 … Channel 4 has dropped Rosie Jones’s comedy Pushers after one series.
BBC Radio Wales show for Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears
Compiling 'audio scrapbooks' of various years
13/05/2026 … Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears of the I’m So Not Over It podcast are launching a new series on BBC Radio Wales this Saturday In Gareth and Esyllt’s…
Tue 12 May 2026
Paddy McGuinness to revive Big Break
12/05/2026 … Big Break is returning with Paddy McGuinness as host.
James Corden returns to US late-night TV
Hosting a World Cup show with Rio Ferdinand
12/05/2026 … James Corden is heading back to late night American TV – if only temporarily.
© Associated Press / Alamy Stock Photo Amazon greenlights Brett Goldstein's new romcom series
About a divorced dad who accidentally becomes a male escort
12/05/2026 … Brett Goldstein is to make a romantic comedy series about a divorced dad who accidentally becomes a male escort.
© BBC/Channel X/Chris Harris Mackenzie Crook to direct his first film
Starring fellow Detectorist Toby Jones
12/05/2026 … Mackenzie Crook is to direct his first film – with his Detectorists co-star Toby Jones in the lead role.