Jake Bhardwaj to host the British Podcast Awards
Accolades now in their tenth year
18/09/2026 … Jake Bhardwaj is to host this year’s British Podcast Awards, organisers have announced.
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Fri 18 September 2026
© Matt Crockett Joel Dommett writes a script about his catfishing scam
Comic says it's 'cathartic' to write about blackmail attempt
18/09/2026 … Joel Dommett is writing a TV script based on the time he was blackmailed in a catfishing scam.
Thu 17 September 2026
Amazon axes Romesh Ranganathan’s contest show
Would You Rather? dropped after one series
17/09/2026 … Romesh Ranganathan’s contest show Would You Rather: Decide To Survive has reportedly been axed after one season.
John Thomson to play Scrooge
As Christmas Carol adaptation heads to Salford
17/09/2026 … John Thomson is to play Ebenezer Scrooge in a production of A Christmas Carol at the Salford Lowry this Christmas.
© Pierre Rosa / Pixabay Why Scottish comedians find it hard to progress
New study identifies problems on the circuit
17/09/2026 … The Scottish comedy scene has a ‘missing middle’ – with performers finding it difficult to progress from open-mic act to becoming a professional…
Joe Wilkinson makes a canal travelogue with Joe Marler
Celebrity Traitors friends reunited
17/09/2026 … Joe Marler and Joe Wilkinson are to make a BBC Two travelogue along Britain’s canals.
© N19±/CC BY-SA 3.0 Closed pub bought back to life as a comedy venue
17/09/2026 … A disused North London pub is to reopen once a month as a pop-up comedy and cabaret venue.
© BBC First pictures of Bill Murray's Irish golf travelogue
With Joanne McNally and Chris O’Dowd
17/09/2026 … The BBC has released the first images of Bill Murray in his forthcoming travel show A Course Called Ireland.