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© Harriet Langford Studio Sara Pascoe on her childhood determination to be famous
18/03/2026 … Sara Pascoe has spoken about being a precocious child, convinced she was going to win her first Oscar by the age of 22.
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.
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…
US host to front the first episode of series 71
18/03/2026 … American comedian Roy Wood Jr.
© BBC 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 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.
£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.
Radio Wales's topical panel show returns
18/03/2026 … Topical comedy panel show What Just Happened? is returning to BBC Radio Wales ahead of the Senedd Election on May 7.
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