© BBC/Channel X/Chris Harris Detectorists to make a comeback
Feature-length special to air later this year
11/05/2022 … Detectorists is to make a surprise return after a five-year absence for a one-off 75 minute special.
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Wed 11 May 2022
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Alistair McGowan releases a second classical piano album
As he continues his music and comedy tour
11/05/2022 … Alistair McGowan is releasing a second classical piano album, coinciding with the London date of his UK tour.
Fishing for another series
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing 'to return'
11/05/2022 … Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing is to return for a fifth series, it has been reported.
© Ray Burmiston Miles Jupp to host his first Have I Got News For You
11/05/2022 … Miles Jupp is to guest present Have I Got News For You for the first time.
© BBC/Wall To Wall Sue Perkins and Matt Lucas do Who Do You Think You Are?
Richard Osman, Anna Maxwell Martin and Ralf Little also delve into family history
11/05/2022 … Sue Perkins, Richard Osman, Matt Lucas, Anna Maxwell Martin and Ralf Little are delving into their family trees in the next series of Who Do You Think You Are? In…
Urzila Carlson announces UK tour
12 dates for antipodean stand-up star
11/05/2022 … Antipodean comic Urzila Carlson has announced a UK tour for 2023.
Au revoir, au revoir to 'Allo 'Allo's Monsieur Leclerc
Actor Robin Parkinson dies at 92
11/05/2022 … Robin Parkinson, who played Ernest Leclerc in 'Allo 'Allo!, has died at the age 92.
Tue 10 May 2022
© Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan/CC BY-SA 2.0 Simon Pegg to star in Nandor Fodor And The Talking Mongoose
A real-life story from the 1930s
10/05/2022 … Simon Pegg is to star in a new film based on the real-life story of a psychoanalyst investigating claims of a talking mongoose.