Top cast for audio sitcom about a 'blind idiot'
Including Steve Pemberton, Chloe Petts and Alison Steadman
14/07/2026 … Steve Pemberton, Chloe Petts and Alison Steadman are starring in a new audio sitcom about ‘being blind …and a bit of an idiot’.
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Tue 14 July 2026
Ali G seen in Wimbledon
As character is set for a film comeback
14/07/2026 … Sacha Baron Cohen has been spotted at Wimbledon in the guise of Ali G.
Jen Brister and Laura Smyth get Hunted
Comics pursued in latest celebrity edition of C4 show
14/07/2026 … Jen Brister and Laura Smyth are to take part in the next series of Celebrity Hunted.
Mon 13 July 2026
Fringe award for Scottish comics to honour Paul Sneddon
The Stand's accolade to be named
13/07/2026 … The new Edinburgh Fringe comedy award for Scottish acts is to be named in honour of comedian Paul Sneddon.
Peter Kay adds hometown gigs – for Boltonians only
Raising money for the town's hospice
13/07/2026 … Peter Kay is adding four more shows at The Albert Halls in Bolton, after all four of his original hometown dates were snapped up as soon as tickets went on sale.
Sandringham festival cancelled
Sales not enough for five-day extravaganza
13/07/2026 … A major five-day comedy and music festival on the King’s Sandringham Estate has been axed amid poor ticket sales.
© Colin Smith / West Horsley Place/CC BY-SA 2.0 Sleep with the Ghosts
'Button Hall' opens up for fans to stay overnight
13/07/2026 … Ghosts fans can now have a sleepover in the fictional haunted house where the BBC comedy is set.
Sun 12 July 2026
© Matt Crockett Alan Carr 'planned a TV travel show with Sarah Ferguson'
Before she was shamed over her Epstein links
12/07/2026 … Alan Carr was reportedly planning a travelogue TV show wit Sarah Ferguson before the full extent of her links to Jeffrey Epstein were made public.