© Channel 4/Avalon Alex Horne's new Channel 4 task show
20/04/2026 … Taskmaster creator Alex Horne could be setting families a series of challenges in a new Channel 4 series currenty under development.
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Mon 20 April 2026
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© BBC/Hat Trick Laura Smyth joins Celebrity Apprentice
Comedian among those trying to impress Lord Sugar
20/04/2026 … Stand-up Laura Smyth is taking part in the first full series of Celebrity Apprentice.
© HBO Is James Acaster doing Celebrity Traitors?
20/04/2026 … James Acaster is reportedly taking part in the next series of The Celebrity Traitors.
Sun 19 April 2026
First tour for Taskmaster's Fatiha El-Ghorri
The best of the week's live comedy
19/04/2026 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
© Karla Gowlett Geoff Norcott's Radio 4 show returns
The week's best comedy on TV, radio and streaming
19/04/2026 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week.
Sat 18 April 2026
Celia Pacquola wins Melbourne's top award
18/04/2026 … Celia Pacquola has won the biggest prize in Australian live comedy.
Fri 17 April 2026
© Andy Hollingworth Kevin Bridges makes a World Cup documentary
About the state of football as Scotland return to the tournament
17/04/2026 … Kevin Bridges is to make a documentary about the state of modern football, timed to coincide with Scotland’s return to the World Cup for the first time in…
Eric Idle's 55 years in Provence
Python comic writes a memoir about renovation a French property
17/04/2026 … Eric Idle has written a book about the half century he has spent trying to turn a ramshackle property in the south of France into his dream home.