Robert Webb reveals his verdict on whether Peep Show will get a film or could return for a revival series
Peep Show fans have long wondered whether they’ll see a movie version of the hit series – and now the show’s star Robert Webb has had his say. Revealing his verdict on whether we’ll see his character, Jeremy ‘Jez’ Usbourne, and David Mitchell's Mark Corrigan on the big screen in the future, Webb explained he’s not sure the show’s unique format – which is filmed from a 1st person perspective – would translate. "I think Sam [Bain] and Jesse [Armstrong], the writers, talked about it for a while," Webb told RadioTimes.com. "Because of the POV thing and the way the camera moves around, I think it would just make everyone feel sick – even more than the content of Mark and Jeremy’s behaviour makes people feel sick!" "Just the camera swinging around like that on a big screen would be quite difficult to watch, so I think that’s why Sam and Jesse have always been a bit tentative about it." Webb, who recently reunited with his Peep Show co-star David Mitchell for their Channel 4 series Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping, also went on to say that he would have to think twice about returning for a film. "Those half hour things that turn into 90 minute things, it doesn’t always come off," he said. "Sometimes it can, but Peep Show sort of lives in that format and it’d be a shame to do something a bit balls just for the sake of doing a movie." But could diehard fans ever see a TV reboot of the series that came to an end in 2015? "David and I are tremendously old so it would be a very different show," added Webb at the Rose d’or Awards 2025. “It was about two people in their thirties and 'are they going to get it together/ aren’t they going to get it together.' "If they’re still in their fifties living together, and they hate each other and they’re romantically and professionally unfulfilled, the jury isn’t out anymore – it’s been decided and there’s no jeopardy, they’ve blown it." Read more: Peep Show's most excruciating episodes: from Christmas to weddings David Mitchell and Robert Webb talk reviving their sketch show and why Peep Show is a no-go for Webb’s daughters However, despite seemingly ruling out a return to the small or silver screen, Webb said he’s extremely "proud" to have been part of such a hit, and doesn’t mind when people quote iconic lines back to him in the street. "I’ll always be very happy and proud to be associated with that show. I was very lucky to be there and it’s a brilliant show," said Webb. "[Being recognised for Peep Show] sort of ebbs and flows. Sometimes it’s: ‘Hello Mr Webb, sorry to bother you.’ And sometimes it’s: ‘Oi, Peep Show!’ So it kind of varies." "I wouldn’t walk into a student bar and expect a quiet drink, put it that way, but there are other places where I’m completely invisible." Check out more of our Comedy coverage or visit our TV Guide and Streaming Guide to find out what's on. For more TV recommendations and reviews, listen to The Radio Times Podcast.
Emily in Paris season 5: Release date and latest news
We now have an official release date! ***Contains major spoilers from Emily in Paris season 4 parts 1 and 2***
***Contains major spoilers from Emily in Paris season 4 parts 1 and 2*** Emily in Paris fans have finally been treated to their first glimpse of season 5 ahead of the series arriving on Netflix later this month. Confusingly, the new season won't actually be in Paris anymore and will pick up where season 4 left off, with our titular heroine heading up a new Agence Grateau office in Rome. However, as we can see in the trailer, she soon finds that her ideas aren't translating in Italy. "But Rome wasn't built in a day," she tells Luc (Bruno Gouery), who responds: "And yet it only took you one day to destroy it". Elsewhere in the footage, we also get a glimpse at a shock romance between Emily's ex Alfie (Lucien Laviscount) and best friend Mindy (Ashley Park). On the announcement of season 5 at the end of 2024, series creator Darren Star told TUDUM: "We’re thrilled with the incredible response to this season of Emily in Paris and excited to return for a fifth to continue Emily’s adventures in Rome and Paris!" Explaining that this doesn’t mean the name of the show is changing, Star added: “Emily’s going to have a presence in Rome. It doesn’t mean she’s not going to be in Paris, but she’s going to have a presence in Rome. Sending Emily to Italy to head up a new office was born out of Star’s desire to "stay ahead of the audience and take them to unexpected places," and show that the series "has the ability to have a bigger footprint". Read on for everything you need to know about the future of Emily in Paris. Emily in Paris season 5 release date All 10 episodes of Emily in Paris season 5 are set to be released on 18th December 2025 on Netflix - just in time for Christmas! Production on the fifth instalment began back in May, with the news confirmed with an exclusive sneak peek of Lily Collins enjoying la dolce vita on a vespa – how quintessentially Italian of her. The post was followed up with the caption: "She's starting" so we'll just have to wait and see what dramatic turns await Emily. View oEmbed on the source website Emily in Paris season 5 cast The confirmed cast for Emily season 5 include Collins as Emily, Ashley Park as Mindy, Lucas Bravo as Gabriel, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu as Sylvie, Samuel Arnold as Julien and Bruno Gouery as Luc. Other characters who are returning include Lucien Laviscount as Alfie, William Abadie as Antoine, Eugenio Franceschini as Marcello, Thalia Besson as Genevieve, Paul Forman as Nico, Arnaud Binard as Laurent G), Minnie Driver as Princess Jane, Bryan Greenberg as Jake, and Michèle Laroque as Yvette. One member who we won't be seeing return for season 5 is Camille Razat as Camille. Speaking on her series exit in an Instagram post, Razat wrote: “After an incredible journey, I’ve made the decision to step away from Emily in Paris. It has been a truly wonderful experience, one filled with growth, creativity, and unforgettable memories.” She continued: “This character has meant a lot to me, and I feel that her storyline has naturally come to an end. It felt like the right moment to explore new horizons.” What is Emily in Paris season 5 about? The official plot synopsis reads: "Now the head of Agence Grateau Rome, Emily faces professional and romantic challenges as she adapts to life in a new city. But just as everything falls into place, a work idea backfires, and the fallout cascades into heartbreak and career setbacks. It continues: "Seeking stability, Emily leans into her French lifestyle, until a big secret threatens one of her closest relationships. Tackling conflict with honesty, Emily emerges with deeper connections, renewed clarity, and a readiness to embrace new possibilities." Season 5 will see Emily and Marcello firmly back on track after a minor bump in the road, and they look set to make a real go of things. “I feel like they have a real spark and a real connection and a real romantic connection. A lot of that’s going to continue to play out next season,” said Star of Marcello. However, in the season 4 finale, it became clear that Gabriel, who has finally earned his Michelin star, isn’t ready to let go of her after all. Will Gabriel win Emily back? And can they finally make a proper go of things now that Camille is out of the picture after deciding to adopt a child on her own? And it looks like Gabriel might not be the only old flame threatening to derail Emily's new romance in season 5. Asked whether there could still be a chance for Emily and Alfie in season 5, Alfie actor Lucien Laviscount told Glamour: "I think that door’s always going to be open. They had such an incredible time together, and they grew so much together as well." He continued: "It’d be foolish to say that love would be off the cards in the long run. I think they’ve got a mutual respect for each other as well, you know. When you greatly respect someone…" Season 5 can’t arrive quickly enough… Is there a trailer for Emily in Paris season 5? Yes, an official trailer for season 5 has been released. You can watch the footage below: View oEmbed on the source website Emily in Paris season 4 parts 1 and 2 are streaming now on Netflix. Check out more of our Drama coverage or visit our TV Guide and Streaming Guide to find out what's on. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to The Radio Times Podcast.
Johnny Vaughan explains why Porridge is still the greatest sitcom after his own prison experience
The Radio X drivetime host is a big fan of Oasis, Horatio Nelson and Ritz Crackers.
This article first appeared in Radio Times magazine. What’s the view from your sofa? There’s a mantelpiece and a lot of dinosaurs. My son Milton is obsessed with them. They’re meant to be up in his room, but every time I put them there, he brings them all downstairs to create “dino-ramas” on the floor. My partner [Vanessa Howard] and I thought he’d grow out of these a few years ago. He hasn’t, and he’s now five. Who controls the remote at home? Well, because we’re always losing them, I discovered you can buy them easily on Amazon, so there’s loads of remotes just lying around, which means we get into tit-for-tat remote wars. It just goes on and on, but generally, if I’ve cooked dinner, I do. What have you enjoyed watching recently? We’ve just finished The Bear. Sometimes the reason you’re hating something is because it’s emoting precisely what the makers intended, so if The Bear makes you angry and frustrated, it’s because it’s meant to produce that reaction. What does it take to be a good presenter? Someone who realises it’s a craft, and is always chasing that perfect show. You’ve got to keep learning. I came to radio from telly and I was a real snob about it: “Television is bigger profile and now I’m coming to radio – so, boy, am I doing radio a favour!” Then you realise that radio is something you get better at. For me, TV you can either do or you can’t. I did The Big Breakfast, the most lively live show, so anything else in telly was never as enjoyable. Who’s the broadcaster you most admire? Anthony Bourdain. You could see his brilliance and his weaknesses. I interviewed him once and his passion for it was fantastic. He was travelling the world, eating great food, meeting great people – something we’d all love to do. Thanks to social media, now everyone can be a broadcaster, but are they real broadcasters? It’s short-form content, and there’s a bit of wannabe-ness about it. They’re like the local TV news we used to have – it would cut to a reporter dressed in karate gear in a village hall full of children with Mohicans doing a sponsored pogo. I see it a bit like that – they’re one-joke wonders, a lot of them. What’s your most replayed song? I’ve always hammered Oasis, but recently I really went for it with [Irish band] Fontaines DC’s Favourite. It’s just so good. I hammered it at home and I hammered it on the show. With Gavin Woods, you host Bloomin’ Legends, a podcast about historical figures. Which do you most admire? Admiral Nelson, the most influential man in British history. He single-handedly made Britannia rule the waves. In fact, I just dragged my family on a pilgrimage to Trafalgar Point, to look west and see where the battle was fought. But the trouble with the site of a naval battle is it’s just the sea. As someone who once resided at Her Majesty’s Pleasure [Vaughan tried to sell cocaine to undercover police when he was 21 and served 25 months of his four-year sentence], do you think the UK has enough measures to help people get back into work after jail? Are you Barrowclough or Mackay? That’s why Porridge is still the greatest sitcom. Are you just locking people up and sending them back into society worse, or investing in people who’ve gone astray? You’ve got to send people back out into the world with more than they came in with. That’s in terms of qualifications, knowledge and a sense of responsibility, or else you’ve failed. So I would always say: education, education, education. What would older Johnny tell his younger self? Never sell any of the properties you bought, and just keep buying them! You know those t**ts who go: “See this? Bought it for 90 grand…” That’s what I’d be. The latest issue of Radio Times is out now – subscribe here. Check out more of our Comedy coverage or visit our TV Guide and Streaming Guide to find out what's on. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to The Radio Times Podcast.
I’m This Is Going to Hurt writer Adam Kay, and this is my honest letter to my 10-year-old self
Working for the NHS inspired Adam Kay to write his memoir This Is Going to Hurt. Now he’s penned a BBC series for kids about 10-year-old doctor Dexter Procter – and he has some important tips for his younger self…
This article first appeared in Radio Times magazine. Finger out of your nose, please. First of all, don’t panic about a 45-year-old man randomly writing to you – this is you from the future. I just wanted to tell you a few things before you tear this letter in half and feed it to the class hamster. (Don’t get too attached to that hamster, by the way. There’s an… incident next year.) You can be a writer! Yeah, I know you’ve been told you’re going to be a doctor since you were four, but other jobs are available. Even ones your parents tell you aren’t “proper” jobs, so just follow your heart and your actual interests. Although I would say that if you do stick with the doctor route for a bit, remember to write some diaries. Don’t be ashamed to be smart Look, you’re no Albert Einstein, but you enjoy learning and there are a bunch of subjects you’re quarter-decent at. But at school you’ll pretend you’re no good at them and stay quiet in class when your teachers ask questions, in case other pupils pick on you. Knowing the capital of Belize is nothing to be ashamed of (Belmopan, as you know), and you need to embrace your inner nerd. Talking of which… You’re not cool You’re going to spend the next decade agonising over how to be cool. Sadly, whatever you wear or however you style your hair isn’t going to convince anyone. (Those frosted tips at university are a catastrophic mistake, by the way – you’ll look like a melted waxwork of Justin Timberlake. You’ll hear about him in about six years.) Eventually, you’ll wake up and realise that it doesn’t matter in the slightest what other people think of you, and it’s OK to be different – the people who actually matter in your life won’t care about anything like that. One day you’ll write a TV show called Dexter Procter: the 10-Year-Old Doctor (see, you can be a writer!) all about the fact it’s fine to be different. Don’t worry, it’s funny too – give it a watch in December 2025. (The series will also be on BBC One over Christmas.) Adults don’t always know best You know how half the people in your class at school are idiots who you wouldn’t trust to open a carton of milk? Well, they grow up to become adults who you still wouldn’t trust to open a carton of milk. (Oh, there’s some bad news for cartons, too – they go out of fashion in a few years and milk all comes in plastic bottles.) Despite what they’ll repeatedly tell you, just because someone’s older than you doesn’t mean they know best. I mean, apart from me. I’m definitely right about all this. Get your revenge Most of the sayings that adults parrot out are absolute nonsense: for example, words are more than capable of hurting you, and sticks and stones are quite unlikely to actually break your bones compared with, for example, skiing. But there’s one saying that’s very true: revenge is a dish best served cold. Keep a mental record of anyone who’s ever wronged you, and include thinly veiled versions of them as the baddies in every book and TV show you write. You’re gay, by the way, and that’s fine Life will be confusing and strange for a long while yet, maybe for ever, and you’ll always be asking questions – why do the radiators make that noise at night? What’s the point of daylight savings time? Why do paper cuts hurt so much? What does third party insurance actually mean? But pretty soon you’ll start asking quite a big question – why do I feel this way? Big answer: it’s because you’re gay. You’ll feel like you’ll never have a “normal” life, whatever that means, and it will terrify you, but it shouldn’t. One day you’ll fall in love with a man and he will also in fall in love with you for some reason. Then you’ll get married (bit of a parliamentary legislation spoiler for you there) and have children (I’m serious) and it will be chaos and it will be heaven and everything in between. There are no shortcuts Unlike Dexter Procter, you’re not quite clever enough to get A*s in 87 separate A-levels. You’ll only do well when you put in the hard hours. Some of that work will be fun, and some of it will leave you covered head to toe in blood (you’re going to be an obstetrician, by the way, not a serial killer), but all of it will get you where you need to be. Eventually. 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Guz Khan reveals why he ended Man Like Mobeen - and how he portrays multi-faith marriages in new Christmas caper
High-flying comedian Guz Khan on how family and friends help him keep it real.
This article first appeared in Radio Times magazine. Guz Khan has come a long way in ten years. While teaching at a secondary school back then, Khan had been posting online skits as Brummie Muslim “Mobeen”. After a couple went viral, Joe Lycett invited him to be his opening act at a stand-up gig and, before long, Grace Academy was looking for a new humanities teacher. In 2017, Khan turned Mobeen into a layered character for BBC Three comedy-drama series Man like Mobeen, about a drug dealer who, despite being reformed by faith and family, is never quite able to leave his old life behind. Four more series and three Bafta nominations followed, as did supporting gigs in productions by Judd Apatow and Mindy Kaling. Now, projects with Riz Ahmed and Rebel Wilson are in the works, while Khan’s new comedy drama, Stuffed, will be on BBC One over Christmas. In another sense however, the 39-year-old comedian insists he hasn’t gone far at all. “My friendship circle has been the same for decades. Me and my wife have known each other 21 years. I go to work, have a good time, then come home to my gang and no one really talks about it. Everyone’s like, ‘You’re the same prick you’ve always been.’ I don’t think I’m more talented than anybody else, I just never worried if something didn’t work out – it was one more for the memory bank.” Have public attitudes towards him changed with his success? “Not a day goes by where someone doesn’t ask how I’m doing or if they can have a photo. My interactions in person are so varied, but overwhelmingly positive. In my online life, if you look at my X, you’ll see I’m an idiot and respond to things, partly because it’s entertaining and partly because you want to teach those people sitting in their mum’s basement, typing ‘Go home, you ___ b*****d’, that in real life you just wouldn’t say that. I tell my kids to be careful with all this, because online is realer than real life for a lot of people.” Family is everything for Khan. He laments how easily distracted he gets while running errands (“My missus is always like, ‘Why did I marry you?’, but I always come home with one of the four things on the list, because it keeps the marriage together”) and references their five kids throughout our conversation, whether it’s “cussing each other out” while checking out random facts on YouTube, or his admiration for their earnest interest while watching Louis Theroux’s documentary The Settlers. He splutters with laughter at his own earliest TV memory, recalling his sister playing him a VHS of Eddie Murphy doing stand-up when he was just five. “It rewired my brain; and my sister is now one of the leading child safeguarding officers in the West Midlands. How about that?” Khan was brought up by his mother and two sisters in the Coventry suburb of Hillfields. “My earliest memories are that, to get in on a conversation between my mum, sisters, three aunties and one uncle, I had to say something that maybe I shouldn’t: if my aunties wanted to beat me up afterwards, my mum and uncle would laugh. I think that’s what honed my comedy: saying something that I knew was funny, but would probably p*** a few people off.” Khan, who still lives in Coventry, hasn’t lost that childhood instinct to entertain without fear of the repercussions. In his new Christmas caper, Khan plays a Muslim grinch whose wife (Morgana Robinson) suggests a family trip to Lapland, where chaos reigns. It’s daft and energetic, and, like all his work, smuggles the thought-provoking alongside the silly. For example, why are multifaith marriages (particularly happy ones) still so rare on British TV? “They’re pretty commonplace out there!” he chuckles. “It’s not overt in Stuffed – we go through familiar family s**t, we’re not sitting around talking theology – but I know I’ll get messages saying, ‘I’m so glad you and Morgana were a couple on screen, because we don’t see it.’ Not enough people get to tell their stories, still. One of the reasons I ended Man like Mobeen is because I’m not the kid who had those experiences 20 years ago any more.” I finish with a festive poser: is it better to give or receive? He laughs, shocked: “My G, what type of people are going to read this?!” Then he takes it in the intended spirit. “It’s always nicer, in life, to give. Take from that what you will.” What I take from it is that Guz Khan has plenty left to give. The latest issue of Radio Times is out now – subscribe here. Stuffed will air at 9pm on Tuesday 23rd December on BBC One. Check out more of our Comedy coverage or visit our TV Guide and Streaming Guide to find out what's on. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to The Radio Times Podcast.
Friends and The Big Bang Theory set to leave Netflix UK – and it's happening very soon
Fans will only have a matter of days to watch the series on the streamer...
Beloved sitcoms Friends and The Big Bang Theory will be leaving Netflix in the UK this month. Both series have been a mainstay of the streamer’s catalogue for years, but fans will only have a matter of days to binge-watch all seasons. The shows will be leaving the streamer due to the expiration of licensing agreements. After arriving in 2018, all 10 seasons of Friends are scheduled to leave Netflix UK on 30th December. The Big Bang Theory, which was first added to the streamer in February 2016 with subsequent seasons released annually until the show ended in 2019, will also be taken down from the platform that day. Friends, which ran between 1994 and 2004, followed six friends in their 20s and early 30s living in Manhattan, New York City. The show starred Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, David Schwimmer, Lisa Kudrow, Matt Le Blanc and the late Matthew Perry. The Big Bang Theory ran between 2007 and 2019 and starred Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg, Kunal Nayyar, Mayim Bialik, and Melissa Rauch. The series followed the lives of four socially-awkward scientists, and their neighbour, as they navigated their careers and love lives – or lack thereof. Over the years, both shows won numerous awards and became two of the most popular sitcoms of all time. Both series maintained cult followings well after their series finales. The Big Bang Theory might have come to an end back in 2019, but the show's success has already spawned two spin-offs: Young Sheldon and Georgy & Mandy's First Marriage. Read more: More Peter Kay tickets live now as 11 new 2026 tour dates added Gavin and Stacey star Mathew Horne confirms reunion with Catherine Tate for exciting new project And a third is on the way in the form of Stuart Fails to Save the Universe, production on which began in September. The spin-off will see Kevin Sussman, Lauren Lapkus, Brian Posehn and John Ross Bowie reprise their roles as Stuart, Denise, Bert and Barry, respectively. Friends and The Big Bang Theory are now streaming on Netflix. Check out more of our Comedy coverage or visit our TV Guide and Streaming Guide to find out what's on. For more TV recommendations and reviews, listen to The Radio Times Podcast.
Peter Kay reveals Netflix wanted Phoenix Nights on streaming service and why he turned them down
There was one condition that Kay couldn’t accept.
Peter Kay has claimed he turned down a Netflix offer for Phoenix Nights because there was one condition that he couldn’t accept. The comedian and TV writer co-created and starred in the 2000s comedy, which followed the highs and lows of the staff and customers at the fictional titular working men’s social club, and soon garnered a cult following. But the series reflected various attitudes and tropes of the late 1990s and early 2000s. And speaking recently on Capital Breakfast, Kay said that Netflix wanted to include a trigger warning making people aware of this at the start of every episode. "They got in touch with me last year, they wanted to put Phoenix Nights on Netflix. They rang me up and said, 'Can we license some of your shows to put on Netflix?'" he shared. "I said 'Oh'. Anyway, they sent me a load of paperwork. Basically, it’s not very politically correct now. This was made in a [different] time, do you know what I mean? "I just said I’m not keen on that, I don’t really want a warning before it. "So I just said, 'No I'll leave it'. Anyway they sent me an airfryer. I think that was trying to sweeten me." Read more: More Peter Kay tickets live now as 11 new 2026 tour dates added Gavin and Stacey star Mathew Horne confirms reunion with Catherine Tate for exciting new project RadioTimes.com has reached out to Netflix for any comment. Elsewhere in the interview, Kay said he is thinking of adapting Phoenix Nights into a film. He said: "I’m waiting for the de-aging process to come into fruition. Because the storyline involves a lot of flashbacks to the past, and I don’t want to be using really bad make-up to make people look young." Check out more of our Comedy coverage or visit our TV Guide and Streaming Guide to find out what's on. For more TV recommendations and reviews, listen to The Radio Times Podcast.
Bridgerton fan-favourite stars in riotous first look at return of acclaimed comedy series
Big Mood is back, and the arrival of a spiritual healer named Whitney soon causes a stir...
First-look images have been unveiled for the upcoming second season of Big Mood, the Channel 4 comedy starring Nicola Coughlan and Lydia West. The series, which is written and created by Camilla Whitehill and explores the nuances of mental health and female friendship, first premiered in March 2024 and became the network's most-watched new comedy launch since Derry Girls. Big Mood season 2 will pick up with Maggie (Coughlan) and Eddie (West), who haven’t seen each other for a year, as Eddie returns for a wedding with a new friend in tow: an infuriatingly positive spiritual healer named Whitney (Hannah Onslow). “Maggie needs to work out if her special brand of chaos can find space in Eddie’s new life, or she fears she will lose her forever,” the official synopsis teases. One of the new images released by Channel 4 shows Maggie and Eddie getting on like a house on fire (above), while another gives fans a first look at the tension between the trio following Whitney and Eddie’s arrival (below). Meanwhile, a third image gives viewers a glimpse at new cast member Kyran Thrax in action (below), while a fourth shows Maggie meaning business as she steps out of a car. Alongside Coughlan (Bridgerton) and West (It's a Sin), returning cast members include Robert Gilbert (Big Boys) as Will, Eamon Farren (The Witcher) as Krent, Niamh Cusack (In the Land of Saints and Sinners) as Gillian and Amalia Vitale (Smoggie Queens) as Anya. Luke Fetherston (Picture This) will also be back as Ryan, alongside Rebecca Lowman (Grey’s Anatomy) as Vanessa, Stephen Sobal (Love Sick) as Owen and Kate Fleetwood (Wheel of Time) as Clara. Meanwhile, new additions to the cast alongside Onslow and Thrax include Robert Lindsay (My Family), Marina Bye (We Were the Lucky Ones) and Marcus Collins (Mrs. Doubtfire, West End). Also joining the cast are Munroe Bergdorf (Love and Rage: Munroe Bergdorf), Kelly Campbell (Bad Sisters), Leo Wan (Bridgerton), Zachary Hart (Slow Horses) and John Locke (Vindication Swim). Big Mood season 1 is available to stream now, and season 2 will air on Channel 4. Check out more of our Comedy coverage or visit our TV Guide and Streaming Guide to find out what's on. For more TV recommendations and reviews, listen to The Radio Times Podcast.
Gavin and Stacey star Mathew Horne confirms reunion with Catherine Tate for exciting new project
Horne played various characters on The Catherine Tate show during its popular run between 2004 and 2007.
Gavin & Stacey star Mathew Horne has revealed that he is currently working on a mystery new project with Catherine Tate. Horne – who appeared as various characters on The Catherine Tate show during its popular run between 2004 and 2007 and reprise his role as Jamie in The Nan Movie in 2022 – made the comments during an appearance for a Live Stage spotlight session at MCM Birmingham Comic Con on Saturday 29th November. "Working with Catherine was phenomenal," he said of their previous collaborations, before teasing: "I saw [her] last week. We are concocting something together for next Christmas." At this stage, Horne divulged no further details as to what form that project might take, but we'll be on the lookout for any further details as they're announced. During the discussion, Horne also touched on the monumental impact of Gavin and Stacey, almost one year on from the Christmas special which drew the beloved sitcom to a close for good. He said that the show "has defined not only my career as an actor but also my entire life" and acknowledged that he felt "truly blessed to be part of it." Read more: Celebrity Traitors fan favourite makes surprise entrance in exclusive look at epic TV event with comedy legends Call the Midwife creator and cast reveal show was hit by typhoon while filming in Hong Kong Horne is one of many special guests appearing at Comic Con over the weekend, with other highlights including the voice of Mario, Charles Martinet, Stranger Things star Jamie Campbell Bower, Demon Slayer duo Christine Marie Cabanos and Mela Lee and X-Men star James McAvoy. Meanwhile, beyond reprising his role for last year's Gavin and Stacey special, Horne's most recent acting credit was appearing on stage as Trinculo in the West End revival of The Tempest – which saw Alien icon Sigourney Weaver star in the main role. Check out more of our Comedy coverage or visit our TV Guide and Streaming Guide to find out what's on. For more TV recommendations and reviews, listen to The Radio Times Podcast.
Celebrity Traitors fan favourite makes surprise entrance in exclusive look at epic TV event with comedy legends
Warning: the clip below contains strong language.
Cult comedy wrestling event Clash of the Comics is set to be broadcast on TV for the first time ever – and RadioTimes.com has an exclusive look at Celebrity Traitors star Joe Marler’s surprise cameo. The live show, which has been a staple at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe under the title The Wrestling, pits stand-up comedians against each other in the wrestling ring – with some pro wrestlers getting involved too. In this sneak peek at the show, which was filmed at the Eventim Apollo last month and is now available to stream on U, Ed Gamble introduces James Acaster’s mystery opponent – and it’s none other than former England rugby player turned fan-favourite Faithful, Marler. However, Joe Lycett soon appears and protests: "James said he challenged somebody from the world of comedy or wrestling. This is very clearly a beautiful former rugby player." Ed says: "That’s where you’re wrong. I’ve been training him up." Watch the clip above to find out how Marler's comedy training has paid off. Good luck, Acaster... Other comedians taking part in the event include a number of Taskmaster alumni, such as Maisie Adam, Rosie Jones and Phil Wang. Meanwhile, Lycett serves as event CEO, Ivo Graham as host and Greg James, Sara Pascoe and Nish Kumar are on commentary. Clash of the Comics is now available to stream on U, and will air on U& Dave at 9pm on 5th December. Add Clash of the Comics to your watchlist on the Radio Times: What to Watch app – download now for daily TV recommendations, features and more. Check out more of our Comedy coverage or visit our TV Guide and Streaming Guide to find out what's on. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to The Radio Times Podcast.
South Park season 28 release schedule: How to watch new episodes in the UK
New season, same madness – here's when to expect the next chapter.
South Park season 28 is in full swing, and the latest instalment continued this season's political themes with an episode tackling Thanksgiving. The episode, titled Turkey Trot, took aim at Saudi Arabian sponsorship, as well as United States Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. Creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone recently confirmed that the show's shift towards political satire this season was not planned, but that “politics became pop culture”. Speaking to The New York Times, Parker said: "We’re just very down-the-middle guys. Any extremists of any kind, we make fun of. We did it for years with the woke thing. That was hilarious to us. And this is hilarious to us." Wondering when the next episode is set to be released? Read on to stay on top of the South Park release schedule and ensure you won’t miss a moment of the increasingly unhinged storylines. Read more: 15 best South Park episodes of all time When is South Park season 28 episode 5 released? South Park season 28 episode 5 will air on 10th December in the US and is expected to follow on Comedy Central UK on Thursday 11th December. The episode will head to Paramount+ shortly afterwards, as is now standard for the long-running series. How many episodes are in South Park season 28? At this stage, your guess is as good as ours! But barring any more unexpected changes, we'd expect South Park season 28 to consist of five episodes in total. TheWrap reports that the plan of creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone is still to release 10 episodes in total this year (suggested to be the five that comprised season 27, and a further five in season 28). South Park season 28 release schedule South Park's recent release pattern has been chaotic at best, but at present, this looks to be the UK schedule for the remainder of season 28 – which is due to conclude in mid-December. South Park season 28 episode 1 – Twisted Christian – Thursday 16th October 2025 (out now) South Park season 28 episode 2 – The Woman in the Hat – Saturday 1st November 2025 (out now) South Park season 28 episode 3 – Sora not Sorry – Thursday 13th November 2025 (out now) South Park season 28 episode 4 – Turkey Trot – Thursday 27th November 2025 (out now) South Park season 28 episode 5 – title TBC – Thursday 11th December 2025 South Park is available to stream on Paramount+. Add South Park to your watchlist on the <a id="OWA8b702c45-bee9-94e4-f018-57518e78041b" title="https://www.radiotimes.com/download-the-app/?af_xp=custom&pid=website&c=editorial_content&is_retargeting=true&af_reengagement_window=30d" href="https://www.radiotimes.com/download-the-app/?af_xp=custom&pid=website&c=editorial_content&is_retargeting=true&af_reengagement_window=30d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-outlook-id="449c28d9-909e-4aab-b6b8-153454f55d5e" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0">Radio Times: What to Watch app – download now for daily TV recommendations, features and more. Check out more of our Comedy coverage or visit our TV Guide and Streaming Guide to find out what's on. For more TV recommendations and reviews, listen to The Radio Times Podcast.
Two Doors Down writer reveals Christmas episode with a twist – and why the show returned after co-creator’s death
Creator Gregor Sharp on what makes Two Doors Down's Christmas special so heartwarming and unmissable this festive season.
This article first appeared in Radio Times magazine. What makes the perfect sitcom Christmas special? Having now written five festive outings for his Scottish sitcom Two Doors Down, Gregor Sharp has a few ideas. “The audience is slightly different that time of year,” he tells RT. “Somehow, you’re trying to catch what’s magic about Christmas. The line to tread is emotion and warmth, without mawkishness. You’re also very conscious of repetition. Early on we did one set around a Christmas lunch. It now feels like it would be difficult to find an original angle on that.” So this year, the special isn’t even set in December. It’s late November, and long-suffering neighbourhood hosts Beth and Eric (Arabella Weir and Alex Norton) impulsively decide to put up their tree early. Cue their troublesome neighbours turning up, asking what gives the Bairds the right to “declare it’s Christmas” – and demanding a wee mince pie. “It’s typical of the show,” says Sharp. “It’s those moments that should be harmonious, but there’s a bit of tension as people bring up their expectations around Christmas. “There are certain shows that Christmas specials really work for,” he muses. “I think that Two Doors Down is by accident one of those, just because it’s a very domestic set. You’re not having to bend it.” The new Christmas special will also be a welcome return for a show that, following the unexpected death of co-creator Simon Carlyle in 2023, seemed like it might be gone for good. “In the immediate aftermath of all that, it felt like there was no appetite for it,” Sharp says. “And then, I suppose, time passes, and you go, ‘Well, actually, creatively, there’s more to do there.’ “It’s a real privilege to have a Christmas episode. Whether everyone would want to do more than that, we don’t know yet. It’s over to the audience now.” The latest issue of Radio Times is out now – subscribe here. Two Doors Down returns to BBC One this Christmas. Stream old episodes on iPlayer. Add Two Doors Down to your watchlist on the <a id="OWA8b702c45-bee9-94e4-f018-57518e78041b" title="https://www.radiotimes.com/download-the-app/?af_xp=custom&pid=website&c=editorial_content&is_retargeting=true&af_reengagement_window=30d" href="https://www.radiotimes.com/download-the-app/?af_xp=custom&pid=website&c=editorial_content&is_retargeting=true&af_reengagement_window=30d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-outlook-id="449c28d9-909e-4aab-b6b8-153454f55d5e" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0">Radio Times: What to Watch app – download now for daily TV recommendations, features and more. Check out more of our Drama coverage or visit our TV Guide and Streaming Guide to see what's on tonight. For more TV recommendations and reviews, listen to The Radio Times Podcast.
Amandaland star teases Christmas special reunion for Absolutely Fabulous icons as Jennifer Saunders joins cast
Lucy Punch’s sitcom gets a special present with Jennifer Saunders joining Joanna Lumley and co for a family get-together.
This article first appeared in Radio Times magazine. We’re in a stately but cosy country pile somewhere north of London, sipping big mugs of hot chocolate by a roaring fire, with a table set for dinner and a towering, twinkling tree. It’s mid-October, but it definitely feels a lot like Christmas. That’s because Amanda (Lucy Punch), whom we first met in Motherland but is now spinning happily in her own aspirational universe, is spending Yuletide with her mother Felicity (Joanna Lumley) at the home of her aunt Joan (Jennifer Saunders, in a bit of irresistible casting that sees the Absolutely Fabulous partners-in- disgrace reunited after nine years). “Working with Joanna has been the dream. She’s smart and funny, and just charms everyone,” Punch tells RT. “Now having Jennifer as another maternal figure in the mix, I’m in absolute heaven. As a child, I had all of the VHS tapes of French and Saunders, and I watched them on repeat. And now here we are.” Is it intimidating? “No, Jennifer’s brilliant to work with, coming up with ideas and lines, finding new stuff. She’s very generous.” Such festive bonhomie all feels a world away from Amanda’s usual habitat of South Harlesden – sorry, that’s “SoHa” if you’re Amanda, or “that area around Wormwood Scrubs” if you’re her fawning but frank pal Anne (Philippa Dunne), who’s inevitably come along for the ride this Christmas. “Anne’s plans to go to Ireland and be with her family have been disrupted by weather,” says Dunne. “Being Anne, she’s very upset about it, but once she’s with Amanda, it’s fine.” Bearing in mind Amanda’s condescension towards her faithful friend, why does Anne never rebel? “There have been a couple of times when the worm has turned,” says Dunne, “but generally for Anne, it’s about basking in the golden glow that Amanda gives, maybe hoping a bit of it washes off on her.” Somehow, Amanda’s downstairs neighbour, single dad and still potential love interest Mal, is also in tow. “Amanda’s a fish out of water in SoHa,” says actor Samuel Anderson, “but she’s such a big fish, you kind of get sucked into her pool. It’s very British to love a snob who falls on their face, but she’s impossible to hate. Then, just when you’re thinking she’s naive and beautiful, she’s back on her feet and doing something else really annoying.” He smirks. “What can I say? It’s reluctant surrender.” On Amanda’s behalf, Punch takes such perspectives in her stride. With a wink to make Lumley proud, she explains it all away. “What can I say? Like moths to a flame.” The latest issue of Radio Times is out now – subscribe here. Amandaland is available to stream on BBC iPlayer. Add Amandaland to your watchlist on the <a id="OWA8b702c45-bee9-94e4-f018-57518e78041b" title="https://www.radiotimes.com/download-the-app/?af_xp=custom&pid=website&c=editorial_content&is_retargeting=true&af_reengagement_window=30d" href="https://www.radiotimes.com/download-the-app/?af_xp=custom&pid=website&c=editorial_content&is_retargeting=true&af_reengagement_window=30d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-outlook-id="449c28d9-909e-4aab-b6b8-153454f55d5e" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0">Radio Times: What to Watch app – download now for daily TV recommendations, features and more. Check out more of our Comedy coverage or visit our TV Guide and Streaming Guide to find out what's on. For more TV recommendations and reviews, listen to The Radio Times Podcast.
The Inbetweeners' James Buckley reveals hopes for Jay in his 30s as a comeback is rumoured
The Inbetweeners actor James Buckley on festive fatherhood – and the happiest fellow he’s ever met.
This article first appeared in Radio Times magazine. Tell us a little bit about your character in Finding Father Christmas. I play the father of Chris, played by Lenny Rush. The mum’s no longer in the picture, and it’s got to a point where my character, who’s just called “Dad” in the script, feels that his son’s at an age where he should talk to him about Father Christmas. But it doesn’t go exactly as planned, and they end up on this Christmas adventure together. How was it working with Lenny Rush? As someone who was a child actor as well, did you offer him any advice? I don’t think he needs any advice from me; he’s a clever lad who knows what he’s doing. I’d say if Christmas was a person, it’d be Lenny – he’s the happiest fellow I’ve ever met in my life, and a really good laugh. Greg Davies is in the film, too. Did you have a mini Inbetweeners reunion on set? Greg shot all his stuff in one day, but I wasn’t there, so I missed him. That was a shame, because it would have been lovely to have a little catch-up with him. What’s the latest on the rumoured Inbetweeners comeback? I’ve not had any kind of offer – when I do, I’ll spend a long time thinking about it, but I’m not going to bother until I have some idea of what’s going on. Do you ever think about what Jay would be up to now, in his 30s? I’d like to think he’s become a bit more normal. I think all boys are weird when they get to those teenage years, then they seem to straighten out. What does your family Christmas look like? Our Christmases are great, but now our two boys are 14 and 12, I’m worried this Christmas might feel a bit grown-up. When you stop being a kid yourself the magic goes for a few years, then when you have kids of your own, it’s even more exciting. But I think those days are numbered, which is quite sad. The latest issue of Radio Times is out now – subscribe here. Finding Father Christmas is coming to Channel 4 this Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Check out more of our Film coverage or visit our TV Guide and Streaming Guide to find out what's on. For more TV recommendations and reviews, listen to The Radio Times Podcast.
Iconic '90s sitcom receives first look at 30th anniversary reunion special as cast unites to celebrate
The special will air on CBS and Paramount+ later this month.
CBS has revealed a first look at the new Everybody Loves Raymond reunion special. The special, which will see the cast reunite to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the popular sitcom, will air on CBS on 24th November at 8pm, as well as becoming available to stream on Paramount+. Hosted by star Ray Romano and series creator Phil Rosenthal, the anniversary special will feature appearances from cast members Brad Garrett, Patricia Heaton, Monica Horan, Madylin Sweeten, Sullivan Sweeten and more. The cast will share memories of their favourite episodes from the Barone living room, as well as audition stories and other behind the scenes information from the popular sitcom. The special will also include a tribute to late cast members Doris Roberts and Peter Boyle, who played Raymond’s crotchety parents, Marie and Frank Barone. Everybody Loves Raymond, which starred Romano and Garrett as brothers often at odds with one another, ran for 210 episodes between 1996 and 2005 before being remade for numerous international markets. In the UK, it aired on the weekday breakfast slot on Channel 4. View oEmbed on the source website Romano previously shut down the possibility of an Everybody Loves Raymond reboot. Speaking on an episode of HBO‘s Real Time With Bill Maher (via Variety) back in 2023, Romano said: “As far as a reboot, well it’s out now of the question because unfortunately the parents are gone: Peter Boyle and Doris Roberts.” Besides the absence of Boyle and Roberts, Romano also said he was against the idea of a reboot because “they’re never as good. We want to leave with our legacy as what it is”. He continued: “The rest of the cast was happy to go on, but myself and Phil Rosenthal — who ran the show — we wanted it to end in season 8, because we just felt it, we felt it [was] time.” Everybody Loves Raymond is available to watch on Channel 4 in the UK and Paramount+ in the US. Add Everybody Loves Raymond to your watchlist on the Radio Times: What to Watch app – download now for daily TV recommendations, features and more. Check out more of our Comedy coverage or visit our TV Guide and Streaming Guide to find out what's on. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to The Radio Times Podcast.
Mrs Brown's Boys star's BBC sitcom special with "shed full of laughs" gets first look amid major production update
Half-hour comedy Shedites will form part of the BBC's 2025 festive offering.
The BBC has released a first-look image from the behind-the-scenes of new one-off comedy special Shedites, as production has begun. Shedites, which will air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer, has been created and written by Mrs Brown's Boys star and writer Paddy Houlihan, while he has brought a host of his cast mates from the hit sitcom across to star in the project. Brendan O’Carroll, Danny O’Carroll, Simon Delaney and Houlihan himself will all appear in the project, along with Trying star Phil Davis, The Young Offenders actor Shane Casey and Small Town, Big Story's Deirdre O’Kane. It has also been confirmed that the special will be part of the BBC’s festive offering this Christmas, meaning it's on a tight turnaround. The synopsis for Shedites says that it is about "a place where men can make themselves useful building and repairing things, and along the way find company through unlikely friendships, a sense of purpose, and a mug of strong tea". The synopsis continues: "The half hour comedy sees Jimmy (Brendan O’Carroll), Harry (Davis), Gavin (Delaney), Cheesy (Danny O’Carroll), Paul (Casey) and Paddy the Liar (Houlihan) set out to build a new bike from recycled parts to try and win the local 'Santa Spin' race. "If they succeed, it’ll be a rare triumph for the lads. And if they don’t, Councillor Orla (Deirde O’Kane) will make sure they hear about it." Houlihan said in a statement: "It’s a privilege to see actors I’ve admired for years bring real depth to characters that began in my imagination. Alongside a crew who’ve poured skill and graft into every frame, they’ve taken what was on the page and lifted it to the screen with humour, honesty, and heart. Watching Shedites come to life has been a surreal experience." Meanwhile, Brendan O’Carroll added: "It’s inspiring and exciting to be filming Shedites. I saw this as a germ of an idea in Paddy’s head. To see it come to fruition is everything his talent deserves." The fifth season of Mrs Brown's Boys aired earlier this year on BBC One and iPlayer, while the long-running show will also soon be back for its annual festive specials. Shedites will air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer. Check out more of our Comedy coverage or visit our TV Guide and Streaming Guide to find out what's on. For more TV recommendations and reviews, listen to The Radio Times Podcast.
Ricky Gervais's latest Netflix stand-up special gets release date confirmed - and it's very soon
The special will see Gervais focus on his life, death, and the state of the world.
Netflix has confirmed the release date for Ricky Gervais’s next stand-up special. Mortality marks Gervais’s fourth stand-up special and promises to be “as unfiltered as ever” and “his best show yet”. And now, we know it will arrive on Netflix on 30th December. Filmed at the London Palladium earlier this year, the special will see the Emmy and Golden Globe-winning comedian focus on his own mortality through a “brutally honest and darkly funny” filter that examines his life, death and the state of the world. It won’t be the first time Gervais has explored mortality, with the comedian notably touching on the topic in his Netflix series After Life, which follows a man as he struggles to come to terms with the death of his wife. Gervais’s Mortality will complete its international 80-arena tour this December ahead of the special’s release, and a portion of the proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to charity. The tour has broken box office records in numerous European territories. Gervais has established himself as one of the world’s biggest comedians through Mortality and previous shows including Humanity, SuperNature and Armageddon. His 2022 show SuperNature received backlash for transphobic jokes, which the comedian later said didn’t target “trans folk, but trans activist ideology”. His 2023 special Armageddon, meanwhile, drew criticism for his use of an ableist slur. In response to the backlash, Gervais later labelled the offence as "faux outrage". Gervais previously defended his sometimes controversial performances, saying in an interview with the Stick to Football podcast that he can "justify" all of the "taboo" topics that he addresses. "I don't go out there and just say the first thing that comes to my head, thinking there is no consequence," he said. "I don't do that, so I've got to be able to justify it. Everything I do, I've got to be able to go, 'This is why it's OK.'" Gervais continued: "A lot of my stuff, because we're dealing with taboo subjects, seems worse than it actually is. If you analyse it, it's not that bad. It's just because you're dealing with contentious subjects and buzz words, where people gasp, but if you look at the jokes, it's fine." Mortality will be available to stream on Netflix from 30th December. Check out more of our Comedy coverage or visit our TV Guide and Streaming Guide to find out what's on. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to The Radio Times Podcast.
Friends spin-off Joey finally releases eight unaired episodes nearly two decades later
While Friends remains one of the most beloved sitcoms of all time, its spin-off and follow-up show Joey lasted only two seasons, with the final eight episodes of the second run never even airing in the US after it was cancelled. Now, finally, 19 years after Joey was cancelled in 2006, all of the episodes, including the final eight, are available to stream, with all of them having been made available to watch on the Friends YouTube channel. Originally, the show's broadcaster NBC pulled the show from its Thursday night slot in December 2005, before airing a further episode on a Tuesday in March. After this, the eight remaining episodes went unreleased, although they were broadcast through other networks internationally. The series saw Matt LeBlanc reprise his role as Joey Tribbiani, with the character seen leaving New York and heading to Hollywood, in order to take his acting career to the next level. Other key characters the show introduced included Drea de Matteo as his highly-strung sister Gina, and Paulo Costanzo as his 20-year-old genius nephew Michael. After the show was cancelled, Friends executive producer and director Kevin S Bright explained why he thought the spin-off failed. He told The Age: "On Friends, Joey was a womaniser but we enjoyed his exploits. He was a solid friend, a guy you knew you could count on. "Joey was deconstructed to be a guy who couldn’t get a job, couldn’t ask a girl out. He became a pathetic, mopey character. I felt he was moving in the wrong direction, but I was not heard." Following the end of Joey, LeBlanc went on to have roles in series including Episodes and Man with a Plan, while he was also one of the presenters of Top Gear for four seasons. Friends is available to stream on Netflix now. Sign up for Netflix from £5.99 a month. Netflix is also available on Sky Glass and Virgin Media Stream. Joey is available to watch on YouTube. Check out more of our Drama coverage or visit our TV Guide and Streaming Guide to see what's on tonight. For more TV recommendations and reviews, listen to The Radio Times Podcast.
Dawn French's much-anticipated sitcom featuring Doctor Who favourite releases first look at comedy "we can all relate to"
The sitcom stars French and Mark Heap as a retired couple who fake a death to receive an insurance payout.
The BBC has released first-look images from Dawn French's upcoming comedy series Can You Keep a Secret? ahead of its release in early 2026. The sitcom, which promises to "place comedy icon Dawn French in the middle of some mischief we can all relate to", revolves around a retired couple who fake a death to receive an insurance payout. The Vicar of Dibley favourite stars as Debbie Fendon, an overbearing granny who puts her family under more strain than ever before when her husband William (Friday Night Dinner's Mark Heap) unexpectedly passes away. That’s because Debbie isn’t actually a widow and William isn’t really dead... he’s just hiding out in the loft waiting for the life insurance to pay out so that he and Debbie can live out their retirement in peace. Can You Keep a Secret? also stars Doctor Who's Mandip Gill and Submarine's Craig Roberts. One of the images (above) shows Debbie and William sipping on a drink and looking shifty, while another shows their "easily frazzled" son Harry (Roberts) looking, well, frazzled (below). As per the official synopsis, Debbie and William's actions leave Harry, who receives a potentially life-changing insurance payout from his father’s 'death', with a huge dilemma. "What’s especially tricky for Harry is that his pathologically pragmatic wife Neha (Gill) is a local police officer and, if she finds out about her in-laws' fraudulent ways, the Fendons might have an issue," the synopsis explains. It continues: "Clearly, Harry – reunited with a dad he's just buried and the reality that his parents have turned into a pensioner version of Bonnie and Clyde – suddenly has a lot more to juggle." Will Debbie and her family be able to keep the secret? Can You Keep a Secret is penned by Simon Mayhew-Archer, the producer of hit BBC comedy This Country. Can You Keep a Secret? will air on BBC One and iPlayer. Check out more of our Comedy coverage or visit our TV Guide and Streaming Guide to find out what's on. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to The Radio Times Podcast.
The Simpsons kills off memorable character in surprising new season 37 episode
The character has been a fixture on the show since season 2.
**Warning – contains spoilers for The Simpsons season 37 episode 7, which will debut in the UK on Monday 24th November** The latest episode of The Simpsons brought with it a shocking twist, as fans witnessed the death of a character who has been a mainstay on the show since almost its very beginning. The episode in question – called Sashes to Sashes – saw Alice Glick, the organist at Springfield's church, die as a sermon was being given, with a memorial service later being held at Springfield Elementary. While some character deaths in the show's history haven't turned out to be permanent, executive producer Tim Long told People that Alice is indeed gone for good. He said: "In a sense, Alice the organist will live forever, through the beautiful music she made. But in another, more important sense, yep, she’s dead as a doornail." Alice first appeared in the season 2 episode Three Men and a Comic Book, which aired in 1991. She was at that time voiced by Cloris Leachman, but following Leachman's passing in 2021, Tress MacNeille took over the role. Earlier this year, fans worried that the show had also killed off Mr Largo, Lisa's music teacher, as referenced in an offhand comment by Springfield Elementary student Devin. However, this turned out not to be the case, with executive producer and writer Jessica Conrad telling TVLine that she didn't expect anyone could "actually believe that we would kill him off off-camera". Other characters to have been killed off over the years include Frank Grimes, Bleeding Gums Murphy, Maude Flanders, Mona Simpson, Hyman Krustofsky and Larry Dalrymple. The finale of the previous season also featured the death of Marge Simpson in a flash-forward – however, executive producer Matt Selman responded to a public outcry by saying that "The Simpsons doesn’t even have canon", and that "the only place Marge is dead is in one future episode". New episodes of The Simpsons season 37 arrive on Disney+ on Mondays in the UK – you can sign up to Disney Plus from £5.99 a month now. Add The Simpsons to your watchlist on the <a id="OWA8b702c45-bee9-94e4-f018-57518e78041b" title="https://www.radiotimes.com/download-the-app/?af_xp=custom&pid=website&c=editorial_content&is_retargeting=true&af_reengagement_window=30d" href="https://www.radiotimes.com/download-the-app/?af_xp=custom&pid=website&c=editorial_content&is_retargeting=true&af_reengagement_window=30d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-outlook-id="449c28d9-909e-4aab-b6b8-153454f55d5e" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0">Radio Times: What to Watch app – download now for daily TV recommendations, features and more. Check out more of our Comedy coverage or visit our TV Guide and Streaming Guide to find out what's on. For more TV recommendations and reviews, listen to The Radio Times Podcast.
BBC confirms nationwide casting search for new Adrian Mole series – with beloved author revealed to be penning adaptation
David Nicholls is heading up a team of powerhouse writers for the new 10-part series.
Following reports that the BBC was working on a new adaptation of Sue Townsend’s best-selling book The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾, the project has now been confirmed, with a 10-part season made up of half-hour episodes officially on the way. No casting has yet been announced for the series, but it has been revealed that a nationwide search is now under way to find a young actor to take on the lead role of Adrian. The casting process is being led by the multi-award winning casting director behind The Crown, Robert Sterne. Meanwhile, a team of incredible writing talent is behind the project, with One Day author David Nicholls acting as the lead writer, while others set to write episodes across the series include Caitlin Moran and Caroline Moran (Raised by Wolves), Dillon Mapletoft and Oliver Taylor (Everyone Else Burns), and Jack Rooke (Big Boys). Nicholls said in a statement: "I happen to be just a little older than Adrian and have adored this book since reading it on publication. It’s a classic piece of comic writing and an incredible piece of ventriloquism on Sue Townsend’s part – how did she know? Adapting Adrian for the screen is an absolute pleasure." The official synopsis for the series, which comes from Ludwig production company Big Talk Studios, says: "It’s New Year’s Day 1981 and Adrian starts his uniquely funny diary about family life and being a teenager before the advent of mobile phones and social media." "With only a multi-coloured ballpoint pen as his guide, Adrian worries about his spots, his parents’ divorce, the torment of first love and the fact he’s never seen a female nipple. "As Adrian's mother Pauline wrestles with her feminist awakening, his father George struggles with being made redundant in an unforgiving economy. Adrian’s wider world is made up of a host of memorable characters like his 'treacle-haired beloved' Pandora, his take-no-prisoners Grandma and his unlikely friend, the foul-mouthed pensioner Bert Baxter. "This vivid portrait of suburban life in Britain shows how much we have changed while staying the same. The result is a timeless family drama that is as warm and funny as it is sad and poignant." Meanwhile, Lindsay Salt, director of BBC Drama, added: "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole is one of those rare, seminal stories that has captivated generation after generation. David Nicholls has brilliantly distilled the wit, warmth and quiet poignancy of Sue Townsend’s iconic novel, reminding us why Adrian’s voice remains as sharply relevant today as it was in the 1980s. "Times may have changed, but the anxieties, ambitions and wonderfully awkward truths at the heart of Adrian’s world are utterly timeless. Kenton and the team at Big Talk have brought together an exceptional group of writers who, alongside David, have crafted a series that honours the spirit of the original, while opening the door for a whole new audience to fall in love with Adrian Mole." The series is being directed by Alex Winckler (Somewhere Boy), while the producer is Charlotte Robinson (A Thousand Blows). Townsend's book was previously adapted for TV in 1985, for an ITV series starring Gian Sammarco, Stephen Moore, Julie Walters and Beryl Reid. Check out more of our Comedy coverage or visit our TV Guide and Streaming Guide to find out what's on. For more TV recommendations and reviews, listen to The Radio Times Podcast.
Iconic Julie Walters series tipped for BBC reboot 40 years after it first aired
Adrian Mole may be returning to screens in 2026.
Forty years after ITV's adaptation of Sue Townsend's novel The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ first aired, it has now been reported that a new screen version is in the works. The Sun has claimed that the BBC is working on a new adaptation, which could potentially film early next year and air towards the end of 2026. According to an apparent source, the show is looking to keep the tone "very comedic", while also being "faithful to Townsend’s original". When approached by RadioTimes.com, the BBC declined to comment. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾, which kicked off the Adrian Mole book series, is a comedy written in the style of a diary, about a teenager who believes he is an intellectual. The original TV adaptation first aired in 1985, and starred Gian Sammarco as the title character, while other key roles were played by Stephen Moore, Julie Walters and Beryl Reid. A sequel series, based on the second book, The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole, aired on ITV in 1987, with Lulu taking on the role of Adrian's mother, who was previously played by Walters. The Sun's report notes that the new adaptation is yet to be fully commissioned, but is now at an advanced stage of development, with the cast being lined up. Read more: Rowan Atkinson stars in chaotic first look at new outing for Netflix comedy series Man vs Baby Celebrity Traitors winner Alan Carr's TV return in beloved comedy finally gets air date confirmed Check out more of our Comedy coverage or visit our TV Guide and Streaming Guide to find out what's on. For more TV recommendations and reviews, listen to The Radio Times Podcast.
How accurate is BBC sitcom Ghosts? History experts and creatives weigh in
Does the show's faux history have anything to teach us? Radio Times investigates...
The dearly departed sitcom Ghosts has been hailed as a rare comedy series that the entire family can enjoy, but can its daft lampooning of British history and familiar archetypes help to nurture real knowledge? The story begins when young married couple Alison (Charlotte Ritchie) and Mike (Kiell Smith-Bynoe) inherit the dilapidated Button House (played by real-life manor West Horsley Place) from a very, very distant relative. Following a near-death experience, Alison gains the ability to perceive apparitions of past inhabitants, who were unfortunate enough to perish on the estate – and for reasons unknown, remain unable to move on to the "other place". Each figure represents a different historical period, spanning from prehistoric cave man Robin (Laurence Rickard) to Edwardian lady of the manor Fanny Button (Martha Howe-Douglas) and Thatcherite MP Julian Fawcett (Simon Farnaby). Of course, the Ghosts creators were then coming off a celebrated run on CBBC's Horrible Histories and, as original producer Matthew Mulot told RadioTimes.com, were "definitely mindful of the audience that they would be bringing with them". In other words, some degree of accuracy would be crucial to upholding their trusted reputation, but co-creator Rickard told crowds at MCM London Comic-Con 2025 that they never intended for Ghosts to be another set of history lessons. "Having done Horrible Histories, where the rule was you couldn't lie, there would be times when we'd come up with a really funny punchline, and then go, 'but we can't do that because that's not what happened'," he explained. "I think that's what led initially to [2015's Shakespeare spoof] Bill, was going 'What about if we were freed from the constraints of telling the truth?' That film is set in a bit of history where there is no history... so we can say whatever we like!" The underrated feature imagines the playwright's 'lost years' and ultimately provided the "template" for Ghosts, according to Rickard, in which "meticulous" historical backdrops would set the stage for predominantly "silly" storylines. In some ways, then, Ghosts was the culmination of everything the team had done to date, encompassing the factual foundation of Horrible Histories, the creative licence of Bill and the risqué innuendo of Sky's fantastical farce Yonderland. Despite this relative freedom, Mulot spoke to the danger of being "too free and easy" with the historical elements of the show, as glaring inaccuracies would inevitably cause viewers to "snap out" of the plot and its rapid, joyous gags. It leaves us with one question: just how plausible is Ghosts' faux history? To answer, we've enlisted History Extra's Elinor Evans, delved into our sister site's archive, and sought out insider thoughts from Mulot and costume designer Lucy Williams. Here's what we learnt about each historical figure in the much-loved series. Humphrey Bone Sir Humphrey Bone (also played by Rickard) is one of the most long-term residents of Button House, having lost his head during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I – although not in the way that you might assume. The Tudors are somewhat synonymous with beheadings – in no small part due to King Henry VIII's tyrannical rule, and the grisly fate of two of his wives – but in true Ghosts fashion, Humphrey's death is far more bizarre than anyone depicted in Wolf Hall. His French wife, Sophie (Chloé Delanney), was indeed plotting against the crown, but Humphrey was blissfully unaware of this due to his inability to speak her language. Suffice to say, he wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer. Ironically, it was the sharpest sword on the wall that caused his premature demise in a freak accident, as it unhinged from a fireplace display and cleaved him in twain. Royal guards took the credit, as you would in those days. All this was revealed to us in season 3 episode The Bone Plot, and 'plot' certainly seems to be an appropriate word as the Tudor era was rife with them, fuelled largely by a bloody power struggle between Catholics and Protestants. "Humphrey's story is drawing together a lot of those inspirations," said Evans of History Extra, who spotted one particularly noteworthy parallel in the case of Thomas and Anne Percy. This noble couple were leaders in the Northern Rebellion, which sought to free Catholic monarch Mary, Queen of Scots and overthrow Protestant Queen Elizabeth I, in one of the most notable uprisings of her reign. As Evans notes: "Specifically in this plot, it was Anne who played quite an unusually active role. She was rallying support among Catholic gentry; she was writing letters; she was doing a lot of the secret and subversive activity that we see Humphrey's wife doing. "It's quite unique because, a lot of the time, it was groups of male nobles who would do this." Evans also points out a reference that might have flown over the heads of non-history buffs, as Button House is revealed to have a priest hole; a name given to secret hiding places for Catholic sympathisers, which would provide crucial lifelines during raids. Mary Witch trial victim Mary represents arguably one of the more obvious deviations from history in the manner of her death, having been burned by the stake in a horrific execution that left her carrying a smoky odour to the afterlife. Self-proclaimed Ghosts super fan Evans is quick to clarify that any minor critiques are said with "love", but considers Mary's fate a minor "bugbear" as very few suspected witches were actually burned at the stake in England. They were more often hanged, but this would be a rather too graphic to depict in a family-friendly series. Notably, one of the rare exceptions was an accused woman named Mary Lakeland, who may well have been an inspiration for Katy Wix's character. History Extra recently hosted a course on witchcraft by Marion Gibson, the University of Exeter's Professor of Renaissance and magical literatures, who spoke at length on witch trials in a publicly available taster session on YouTube. Across the pond, in the British colony of Salem, Massachusetts – one of the most infamous locations of witch trials – Gibson references two victims who share traits with Ghosts character Mary. View oEmbed on the source website One is Sarah Good, who was "very poor" to the extent of "living rough" in the local community, and the other is Sarah Osbourne, who was widowed prior to being accused, just as Mary had been too. Mary's poverty and low social status is reflected in her illiteracy and broken speech, which contrasts starkly against more affluent characters such as Kitty (Lolly Adefope), Thomas (Mathew Baynton) and the aforementioned Lady Button. "Being from a rural, poorer background, Mary would definitely have been at the tail end of the spread of literacy," said Evans, discussing a "turning point" that began in the early 16th century, spurred on by the printing of the Gutenberg Bible. "It wasn't until the second half of the 17th Century that most men could read, and I'm saying most men here, because it would have spread to women much later," added Evans. "Mary would have been really low down the pecking order in terms of literacy." Notably, at MCM London Comic-Con, Ghosts co-creator Martha Howe-Douglas shared that the varying language of the deceased characters was actually one of her "favourite parts" of writing the series and a "great" thing to research. When it came to designing Mary's costume, Williams cites The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer as a key reference; the 17th Century painting depicts a woman working in a kitchen, wearing similar shades of blue and yellow as the Button House resident. "I loved the colours and chose natural fabrics which were true to the era and would be easy to show the burnt marks," she explained. "I burnt sections of the costume using a candle, sending photographs to [director] Tom Kingsley to achieve the right level." Kitty Georgian noblewoman Kitty is the sole person of colour among the deceased characters in Ghosts, and though such representation in upper class society was rare in 18th century Britain, there is a clear precedent which likely inspired her story. The Ghosts wiki states that Kitty had been born in Jamaica – at that time, a British colony – and adopted by a wealthy English family, with the precise circumstances leading to this arrangement never fully explained. Her experience, however, is reflected in the real life of Dido Elizabeth Belle, a mixed-race woman born to enslaved 15-year-old Maria and naval officer Sir John Lindsay, who was around nine years her senior. Clearly, there are serious implications to be acknowledged regarding her conception, brought up by their vast disparity in age and social status; Lindsay's life clearly cannot be sanitised in any reading of the history. But to focus on Belle and her shared experience with Kitty, she too was able to live freely as a British noble, moving at a young age from what was then known as Spanish Florida to Lindsay's familial estate of Kenwood House in north London. View Green Video on the source website Although Belle was never formally acknowledged as Lindsay's daughter (hence their differing surnames), she lived the comfortable life of a noble and was left a large sum in her father's will, allowing her to continue doing so after his death. In a recent article for Black History Month, Tamara Morgan summarised: "Dido Elizabeth Belle's life challenges us to rethink the boundaries of history. She was not enslaved, yet her life was shaped by slavery's shadow. She was privileged, yet subject to prejudice. She belonged to one of Britain’s most powerful families, yet her presence questioned the very system that underpinned their wealth. "To look at her portrait is to glimpse a history that is both unique and universal: the story of a woman who stood between worlds, and whose life still speaks to questions of identity, justice, and belonging today." Belle was the subject of a fictionalised feature film of the same name in 2013, where she was played by Loki and The Woman in Cabin 10 star Gugu Mbatha-Raw; it served as one of several references for Ghosts costume designer Williams. Thomas Thomas Thorne lived in the Regency era, where he strived to become a legendary Romantic poet, although the extent of his success never quite reached the giddy heights that he felt he deserved. His unfortunate demise is explored in season 2 episode The Thomas Thorne Affair, in which he is tricked into a duel by a love rival, who proceeds to give him some deceptive and deadly advice on precisely when to draw his gun. Although it seems bizarre today, Evans explains that duelling was "very prevalent" in aristocratic society during Thomas's day, noting that there was a strict "etiquette" to the process – and breaking rules could result in criminal charges. Alas, the sabotage that costs Thomas his life went undetected as far as we know. View Green Video on the source website On a meta level, The Thomas Thorne Affair plays out much like the course of real historical debate, argues Evans, who compares the conflicting narratives of the Button House ghosts to frequent disagreements in academic circles. "Each ghost having their own bias really reflects the approach to history," she explains. "I love that Alison, as the live person, is almost playing the role of the historian, trying to weed out what's fact, what's fiction, and whose bias is where." Evans adds that Thomas might, at least, take comfort in how his premature death was mirrored by prominent poets of the time, such as Lord Byron, John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley, which arguably added to their "mystique" and a sense of "lost genius". Paintings of the real romantic poets helped inform Thomas's look, revealed Williams, who also used Bright Star as a guiding reference; Jane Campion's Keats biopic, which earned an Academy Award nomination for its own costume design. Lady Button Lady Button is among the most popular Ghosts characters, famed for her outlandish facial expressions and eccentric grunts of shock or disapproval. In an early episode, we learn that her husband pushed her from a top storey window after she discovered he was having a homosexual affair – the gravity of which we can address in the next section. The dark turn of events leaves her with some prejudice, which is gradually ironed out in the enlightening early seasons; but she can never unlearn her comical obsession with manners, etiquette and respect for Button House itself. It's a believable character trait for someone raised in a day when women of her social class were expected to be domestic "angels" and run their fully staffed home as a tight ship (in spite of Fanny's earlier aspirations to have a career of her own). "This is the late Victorian, early Edwardian ideal that she's expected to grow up and to fulfil," said Evans. "She's obviously got conflict in that, and I think that obviously manifests in the drama in really funny and wonderful ways." The Captain The Captain has perhaps broken more hearts than any other Button House resident (sorry, Thomas), with early hints towards the character's unrecognised homosexuality eventually moving to the forefront in season 5. The World War II-era character meets fellow serviceman Havers (Peter Sandys-Clarke) when they are briefly stationed together at the haunted estate, and their profound connection never leaves him in the many decades since elapsed. At the conclusion of the war, The Captain crashes an event for frontline soldiers (of which he was not) in a desperate bid to be reunited with Havers, but suffers a heart attack in sheer panic as his intrusion goes angrily noticed. It's difficult to overstate the risks involved in The Captain pursuing any kind of relationship with Havers, at a time when homosexuality remained illegal in Britain. View Green Video on the source website Although some openly gay men had been "unofficially tolerated" in the Armed Forces during the long and gruelling conflict, others had faced severe penalties, such as being court-martialled and imprisoned, according to Stephen Bourne (via History Extra). He writes: "At the end of the war, the British public wanted to get back to 'normal', so women were expected to return to the kitchen, Black recruits were expected to return to west Africa and the West Indies, and homosexual men found themselves subjected to the draconian law that would see them in prison, even if they had helped to win the war." The risk of being discovered and disgraced as a gay man may be compounded by guilt or embarrassment over having never seen combat himself, creating a "perfect storm" within The Captain that ultimately leads to his catastrophic heart attack. So, how accurate is Ghosts? In short, while Ghosts may not be informative enough to pass as an educational resource (sorry, kids), it's by no means a slouch in the core details of its various historical periods and character arcs. From producer Mulot's point of view, any perceived shortcuts in depicting earlier eras can be chalked up to the restrictions of making a BBC One comedy. "You've got a certain amount of time, you've got a certain amount of money, and we also have the joy – but also the limitation – of being at West Horsley Place," he said. "There's only so much you can do, logistically, because you're not knocking walls down." Overall though, he considers the location a "gift" to the show and says there's "no way" that it could have looked anywhere near as authentic on a studio set. Meanwhile, Williams described historical accuracy as "integral" to each of her designs for the ghosts, which came with "huge pressure" as they couldn't be changed in any major way beyond their debut in the very first episode. "Each character's costume was true to the period," she explained, from Humphrey's velvet doublet to Kitty's robe à l'anglaise-style dress. In a strong show of commitment, Howe-Douglas and Adefope also endured the discomfort of wearing corsets. View Green Video on the source website Of course, total accuracy isn't an absolute requirement for a sitcom as intentionally silly as Ghosts, and the broad strokes present on its canvas would still be enough to stir an interest in certain viewers, particularly younger ones. Evans doesn't necessarily see any harm in that, but notes that any films or TV shows playing fast-and-loose with real history do have a "responsibility to do that knowingly and do it with full transparency". "This is obviously parody and satire, the figures aren't real so I wouldn't hold them to any historical rigour in that sense," she continued. "If it starts a conversation, if it gets people asking about real events and real characters, and it's not posing as fact, that's really great." Evans elaborated: "I think the stickier problems come in when you have such statements as 'based on a true story' or 'this really happened', which lose all the nuance of the reality that we can never truly know. "There are always going to be different interpretations... The phrase that we often see now is 'inspired by true events' or 'inspired by a true story', which covers all manner of sins, really. "People can definitely say: 'we were inspired by this person, but we're not doing a historical recreation or a faithful retelling of their lives'," she concluded. "That's a good thing, because you probably couldn't do that anyway." Ghosts is available to stream on BBC iPlayer. 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Rowan Atkinson stars in chaotic first look at new outing for Netflix comedy series Man vs Baby
Atkinson is back as Trevor Bingley in this follow-up to Man vs Bee.
Remember Man vs Bee? The Netflix series, made up of nine bite-size episodes, starred Rowan Atkinson as a new comedy character Trevor Bingley, and debuted back in 2022. Now, finally, Atkinson is returning to his role as Trevor for Man vs Baby, a follow-up comprised of four half-hour episodes – and a first-look trailer has now been released. The festive trailer sees Trevor working as a school caretaker, but finding himself looking after a baby left behind on the doorstep. It's fair to say, things don't exactly go smoothly for the new duo. You can watch the trailer right here now. View oEmbed on the source website The official synopsis for the series says: "After a job looking after a high-tech mansion ended in disaster thanks to an irritating insect in Man vs Bee, Trevor Bingley (Rowan Atkinson) has left the stressful world of housesitting for the quieter life of a school caretaker. "That is, until a lucrative offer to look after a luxury London penthouse over Christmas proves too tempting to resist. But on the last day of term, when no one comes to collect the Baby Jesus from the school nativity, Trevor finds himself with another undersized and very unexpected companion. "With a penthouse to protect and a baby to burp, will Trevor be able to have the calm Christmas he hopes for, or will festivities descend into chaos?" The trailer has also revealed a number of additional cast members joining the series, including Steve Edge, Sunetra Sarker, Sunil Patel, Susannah Fielding and Ashley Jensen. Claudie Blakley is back in her role from season 1, playing Trevor's long-suffering ex-wife Jess. Man Vs Baby will be available to stream on Netflix from 11th December 2025. Sign up for Netflix from £5.99 a month. Netflix is also available on Sky Glass and Virgin Media Stream. Add Man Vs Baby to your watchlist on the <a id="OWA8b702c45-bee9-94e4-f018-57518e78041b" title="https://www.radiotimes.com/download-the-app/?af_xp=custom&pid=website&c=editorial_content&is_retargeting=true&af_reengagement_window=30d" href="https://www.radiotimes.com/download-the-app/?af_xp=custom&pid=website&c=editorial_content&is_retargeting=true&af_reengagement_window=30d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-outlook-id="449c28d9-909e-4aab-b6b8-153454f55d5e" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0">Radio Times: What to Watch app – download now for daily TV recommendations, features and more. Check out more of our Comedy coverage or visit our TV Guide and Streaming Guide to find out what's on. For more TV recommendations and reviews, listen to The Radio Times Podcast.
Celebrity Traitors winner Alan Carr's TV return in beloved comedy finally gets air date confirmed
Heartache and awkwardness awaits a young Alan Carr in Changing Ends season 3.
If you're missing Alan Carr after his astonishing run on Celebrity Traitors, don't despair: the comedian's hit ITV sitcom is returning to screens later this month for its third season. Changing Ends is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age series, which sees Carr dramatise his childhood, growing up as the son of a football manager and not quite understanding what made him different to the other boys at his school. Child actor Oliver Savell plays a young Alan Carr, while the comedian himself features as a narrator, appearing on-screen to offer context and reflections on the show's storylines. Changing Ends has earned a generally positive reception from critics and viewers alike, becoming ITVX's most-viewed comedy in 2023, with Savell subsequently earning a BAFTA nomination for his uncanny turn as Carr. The next chapter in the sitcom is available to stream from the morning of Sunday 23rd November 2025 on ITVX, with a linear broadcast to follow at 10:05pm that night on ITV1 – just after I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!. It's an enviable lead-in for the series, which ITV will be hoping receives a Celebrity Traitors bump after Carr emerged as the breakout star of the recent season, with many viewers declaring him a "national treasure" for his masterful hoodwinking. Carr himself acknowledged on Celebrity Traitors Uncloaked that the reaction to his participation has been more intense than his earlier television work, with industry pundits predicting high-profile follow-up gigs in the comic's future. For now, though, it's a return to the comfortingly familiar ground of Changing Ends. The synopsis for season 3, courtesy of ITV teases a crush for the teenaged Carr on a new character named Jake. It asks: "Does love struck Alan suppress this crush or shout about it from the rooftops?" "Whatever happens, it's going to be tough as Alan has the thankless task of navigating the adolescent minefields that are sleepovers, swimming lessons and nights out with the boys – and the girls. "But it's not all doom and gloom as some unexpected allies give Alan a much-needed glimpse of a hopeful future and they're not a million miles away from his own doorstep." Changing Ends seasons 1-2 are available on ITVX. Season 3 premieres on ITV1 at 10:05pm on Sunday 23rd November 2025. Check out more of our Comedy coverage or visit our TV Guide and Streaming Guide to find out what's on. For more TV recommendations and reviews, listen to The Radio Times Podcast. Add Changing Ends to your watchlist on the <a id="OWA8b702c45-bee9-94e4-f018-57518e78041b" title="https://www.radiotimes.com/download-the-app/?af_xp=custom&pid=website&c=editorial_content&is_retargeting=true&af_reengagement_window=30d" href="https://www.radiotimes.com/download-the-app/?af_xp=custom&pid=website&c=editorial_content&is_retargeting=true&af_reengagement_window=30d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-outlook-id="449c28d9-909e-4aab-b6b8-153454f55d5e" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0">Radio Times: What to Watch app – download now for daily TV recommendations, features and more.
Why weren't three major Brassic stars in the show's finale?
Brassic has come to an end after seven seasons, but some fan favourite characters didn’t make it to the final episode.
Hit Sky comedy series Brassic has come to an end after seven seasons of mayhem from the Hawley gang of amateur thieves led by Joe Gilgun’s Vinnie O’Neill. The final episode left some questions unanswered, such as who fired the shot in the woods that injured Vinnie, but the biggest mystery for many fans is why fan favourites Carol, Cardi and Erin weren’t in the finale at all. The reason Michelle Keegan, who plays Erin, was absent for much of the season is that she was pregnant during production in late 2024 and early 2025. She filmed some early scenes – in the school reunion episode you can see she is wearing a big coat to hide her pregnancy bump – and then returned after giving birth to daughter Palma to make her final appearance. Erin isn’t in the finale, but in the penultimate episode, she calls Vinnie and has a heartfelt chat with him when she gets stuck in a lift, leaving fans with a long awaited romantic moment between the pair, even if it is over the phone. And while Keegan has other projects in the pipeline, including ITV crime drama The Blame, she doesn’t rule out a return for Erin in the future. “I love this show and for me it’s felt like home,” she said before filming the final episodes of Brassic. “Every year, I’d go off and do other projects and then I’d come back home to Brassic as it was always at the same time every year. "It was the nicest job to do because it was like seeing all your mates again. It’s going to hit me more this year when it’s not coming back, but part of me believes it is still coming back again.” Also absent from the finale are Cardi and Carol (played by Tom Hanson and Bronagh Gallagher) and in fact they barely feature in the final season at all, and don’t reappear for the last episode. It is explained via a video call early on that they are in Ireland, working on their marriage, and the couple aren’t seen again. Part of the reason for their absence is that both Hanson and Gallagher were committed to other projects that clashed with the filming of the final season of Brassic – Hanson was making a new Irish series called These Sacred Vows, while singer and actress Gallagher has filmed How to Get to Heaven from Belfast for Netflix, and has also been performing on tour with her band. Read more: Brassic alternate ending revealed by star as closing scenes sparked big debate Brassic future teased by star Ryan Sampson as series comes to a close In an exclusive interview with RadioTimes.com, their co-star, Ryan Samson, who plays Tommo, revealed what it was like on set without them. “We really missed them,” he said. “I love the pair of them so much, and it was really sad that they weren’t there. But I think they were just like, we've done it for seven years now, so enough's enough. But then, as it turned out, that was last series anyway. It was a bit sad for them not to be in it fully. "And I think that's the thing about it doing something for ages, you can't go on forever, and there has to be a point when you start going, ‘okay, I wanna do something else.’” Of course, many other favourites from the show did return for the final season, including Dominic West, who plays Dr Chris, Vinnie’s highly unethical GP. He joined the series after becoming friends with Joe Gilgun during the filming of the movie Pride in 2014, where he encouraged Joe to write down the stories from his life that would become the inspiration for Brassic. View oEmbed on the source website “Joe is the funniest man I have ever met,” West said. “He is a brilliant actor and performer. I remember seeing him first in the opening scenes of This Is England as the character Woody. It’s one of the greatest scenes of all time. It’s all him, the whole time, he was improvising the whole thing. “Brassic is like an extended version of that, he’s one of the great actors of this country. I would have done a lot better in Pride if I hadn’t been hanging around with him. He was just making me cry with laughter the whole time we filmed. But out of that film came our friendship and then came this!” “I’m going to miss it,” he added. “I can’t quite believe it’s the last series. I’ve enjoyed every second and I hope you [the fans] have. Joe is a genius, and I hope we have shown the world that. The Gilgun genius!” Brassic seasons 1-7 are available to stream now on Sky. Find out more about how to sign up for Sky TV. 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Brassic alternate ending revealed by star as closing scenes sparked big debate
Tommo star Ryan Sampson talks to RadioTimes.com about the Brassic finale.**CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE BRASSIC FINALE**
**Warning: Major Brassic finale spoilers ahead.** Sky TV’s hugely popular comedy series Brassic has ended with a literal bang, but actor Ryan Sampson, who plays Tommo, has revealed the final scene could have been very different. Episode 6 of Brassic’s final season has Vinnie (Joe Gilgun), Tommo and the gang meeting rival criminals Davey MacDonagh (Neil Ashton) and Joey Kittens (Dylan Baldwin) for lunch at a remote countryside pub in the snow. Before they arrived, Davey removed the staff and placed his own cousins behind the bar. He also shot Joey, and once everyone is settled in for the meal, he holds them all hostage. Trying to save his friends, Vinnie goes with an unhinged (and armed) Davey into the woods, and after the rest of the gang overpower Davey’s cousins, they head off to find him. Unfortunately, Joey’s niece Fay, who also has a rifle, finds her uncle’s body in the snow and blames Vinnie, aiming the gun at him and then at Davey. Vinnie pulls out the vintage gun he found in the pub, and a stand-off follows when Davey refuses to put his gun down. The search party then hear a gunshot echo through the trees, and viewers see Vinnie lying in the snow, with blood by his side. As the camera draws close, we see flashbacks to Vinnie’s life with his friends, and his love for Erin (Michelle Keegan) and their son Tyler, before he sits up and the end credits roll. “There was a lot of debate over what the exact last second should be,” Sampson confessed in an exclusive interview with RadioTimes.com. “Should he sit up? Should he have the flashbacks? Should someone else? Was it someone else who was going to get shot at one point? It went round in the drafts we had," he explained. "There were so many, and I think they wanted to leave it open, just in case they want to do more Brassic later. So that's why Vinnie opens his eyes and stuff and sits up.” Read more: Brassic future teased by star Ryan Sampson as series comes to a close Farewell to Brassic – one of the funniest and rudest shows on TV “I think at one point he was meant to get shot in the head, and then he didn't and I seem to remember Joe [Gilgun] being like, ‘I don't want to be dying in last scene,’” Sampson added. “So obviously, he's got an idea about maybe we don't want it to end, but to be honest, there's no concrete plan yet. It just feels like it's definitely ended. But now there's a door being left open, you know?” Sampson also noted that Danny Brocklehurst, who co-created the show with Joe Gilgun, may have his own plans for Brassic in the future, which meant that Vinnie had to survive the shooting. “I think there's a sneaky idea that Danny’s mentioned that he'd kind of like to write a film of it at some point. So who knows if that will happen? I don't know, but it's obviously in the back of his head.” View oEmbed on the source website The final episode, entitled The Carvery (the remote pub is chosen as a meeting place because it has a good carvery) is already pretty cinematic. It pays homage to Quentin Tarantino’s 2015 movie The Hateful Eight, which starred Samuel L Jackson, Kurt Russell and Jennifer Jason Leigh as a group of strangers who seek refuge in a stagecoach inn during a blizzard a few years after the American Civil War. “Episode 6, I think is one of the most cinematic episodes we've done,” Sampson said. “The CGI budget, apparently, is just through the roof with the snow. So I'm really proud of that. I think it looks really amazing. "But also there's all these little Easter eggs in it. The whole episode is meant to be like The Hateful Eight. So Darren [Finch], the costume designer, has snuck in all these little references in the costumes. Kurt Russell wears this huge bear skin coat in the movie, and so I'm wearing this big, like fur number, just to like echo it. I thought it was really clever.” The wintry effects in the episode had to be added using computer imagery as there was no snow when the cast and crew were filming. “The really mad thing is, at the beginning of the series, we had loads of snow and we were fighting to film stuff that didn't have any snow in it,” Sampson said. “For the bit where the second half of the bus is going over the cliff [in the first episode], there was snow all around. So they had to melt all the snow, and then we had to come back when it wasn't there to film. And then when they were doing the snow scenes in the final episode, they had to just put all this snow in. So this is the nonsense of making TV.” Sampson's next project post-Brassic is the third season of the comedy series Mr Bigstuff, which he is currently writing and stars in with Danny Dyer. While both series are known for being rude and adventurous on screen, he said there are big differences behind the scenes between Brassic and Mr Bigstuff. “Every set has got its own different flavour,” he explained. “It's like every workplace you go into, it's got its own sort of set of rules and so on. On Brassic, it's very much led by Joe [Gilgun] so it's raucous and sweary and a bit chaotic sort of thing. Mr Big Stuff is mainly led by Danny, who is like, ‘We're a fucking team’. And it's a big loving sort of thing.” While Sampson doesn’t always enjoy writing the show — “I'm meant to be writing it right now, but I'm enjoying not doing it and talking to you instead, coming up with the outline and getting it all right is just a bloody nightmare” — he loves the series and hopes for more Mr Bigstuff in the future. “In my head, there's an overall story where we're going to in Mr Bigstuff. I would say it is a five-series arc, but we'll see if we get there.” Brassic seasons 1-7 are available to stream now on Sky. Find out more about how to sign up for Sky TV. Add Brassic to your watchlist on the <a id="OWA8b702c45-bee9-94e4-f018-57518e78041b" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://www.radiotimes.com/download-the-app/?af_xp=custom&pid=website&c=editorial_content&is_retargeting=true&af_reengagement_window=30d" href="https://www.radiotimes.com/download-the-app/?af_xp=custom&pid=website&c=editorial_content&is_retargeting=true&af_reengagement_window=30d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-outlook-id="449c28d9-909e-4aab-b6b8-153454f55d5e" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0">Radio Times: What to Watch app – download now for daily TV recommendations, features and more. Check out more of our Comedy coverage or visit our TV Guide and Streaming Guide to find out what's on. For more TV recommendations and reviews, listen to The Radio Times Podcast.
Celebrity Traitors star confirmed with other British comedy legends for Lenny Rush's vampiric new BBC sitcom
The Reluctant Vampire is the latest project from Alan Partridge writers Neil and Rob Gibbons.
Rising star Lenny Rush is set to be joined by an all-star cast in forthcoming BBC sitcom The Reluctant Vampire, which is promised to follow "in the dead funny footsteps of Ghosts". The young actor, who broke out in Am I Being Unreasonable?, will play Val in the new series; a teenager raised in a family of vampires, who discovers by chance that he's not actually a vampire himself. That would explain why "bloodthirsty rites of passage" have never been his strong suit. His mother, Valeeta (Fleabag's Sian Clifford), had kept his true nature a secret from him to ensure that he wouldn't be at risk, but now they'll have to work together to keep him undetected from his highly traditional vampire dad, Victor (King Gary's Tom Davis). In addition to Clifford and Davis, The Reluctant Vampire also reunites Rush with Ellie-May Sheridan, who he previously appeared alongside in CBBC's Dodger, and here plays a local girl whom Val befriends after learning of his humanity. Rounding out the supporting cast are a slew of big names, including Charlie Cooper (This Country), Asim Chaudhry (People Just Do Nothing), Joe Wilkinson (Celebrity Traitors) and Kiell Smith-Bynoe (Ghosts). You can also expect to see Esther Smith (Trying), Bill Bailey (Black Books) and Ray Fearon (Not Going Out), plus screen newcomer Gabriel Nagy as Val's suspicious brother. "Val can never let his secret be known to the locals," says the BBC synopsis. "Yet by night there's a coffin-load of expectations... Val must navigate both worlds without letting his cover be staked." In response to the casting announcement, Rush commented: "I couldn’t be more thrilled to be surrounded by this bunch of comedy legends. If vampires had a dream team, this would be it." The Reluctant Vampire has two big names behind the camera too, with Alan Partridge writers Neil and Rob Gibbons (of Mid Morning Matters, This Time and How Are You?, among other projects) co-creating the series. Executive producer Shane Allen added: "This is a world of vampires, invisible ghosts, werewolves and gargoyles following in the dead funny footsteps of Ghosts to deliver high-spirited hilarity for all the family. "The response to Neil and Rob's scripts has sent shivers up our spines with the cream of British comedy signing up." The Reluctant Vampire will consist of six half-hour episodes, but does not yet have a confirmed premiere date. The Reluctant Vampire is coming soon to BBC One and iPlayer. Check out more of our Comedy coverage or visit our TV Guide and Streaming Guide to find out what's on. For more TV recommendations and reviews, listen to The Radio Times Podcast. Add The Reluctant Vampire to your watchlist on the <a id="OWA8b702c45-bee9-94e4-f018-57518e78041b" title="https://www.radiotimes.com/download-the-app/?af_xp=custom&pid=website&c=editorial_content&is_retargeting=true&af_reengagement_window=30d" href="https://www.radiotimes.com/download-the-app/?af_xp=custom&pid=website&c=editorial_content&is_retargeting=true&af_reengagement_window=30d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-outlook-id="449c28d9-909e-4aab-b6b8-153454f55d5e" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0">Radio Times: What to Watch app – download now for daily TV recommendations, features and more.
Brassic future teased by star Ryan Sampson as series comes to a close
The Mr Bigstuff creator and star has played Tommo since 2019. ***Major Brassic finale spoilers ahead***
**Warning: Major Brassic finale spoilers ahead.** After seven seasons of friendship, mad heists, exploding bodies and the bonkers monologues of Farmer Jim, Sky’s hit comedy series Brassic has come to an end. The final episode leaves the fate of Vinnie (Joe Gilgun), Ash (Aaron Heffernan), Tommo (Ryan Sampson) and the rest of the Hawley band of amateur thieves up in the air. All of the main cast survive a trip to a remote pub, despite a few fraught moments and a gunshot heard before the end credits. In an exclusive interview with RadioTimes.com, Ryan Sampson told us that while the finale is definitely the end of the series, it may not be the last we see of the Brassic gang. “I would have been a fan of killing us all off, because I just think, if you're gonna do it, do it,” he said. “But I think there's a sneaky idea that Danny’s [writer Danny Brocklehurst] mentioned that he'd kind of like to write a film of it at some point. So who knows if that will happen? I don't know, but it's obviously in the back of his head.” “Would I want it to happen? I can't really add anything, because we've done a lot, you know? I don't think there's any stones that we haven't turned, so I'm kind of happy with it.” However, Sampson doesn’t rule out returning to the role of Rat & Cutter pub manager Tommo, although he wouldn’t want to leave it too long. “Maybe we’ll see Tommo again, but maybe not. I don't know. I think sometimes it's quite good to leave everything when they're quite youthful characters. I can't really see them in their fifties. Tommo with mortgages and gambling debts. Yeah, that might be a bit sad.” The 39-year-old star, who is currently writing the third season of his comedy series Mr Bigstuff, revealed that he’s really going to miss filming the Yorkshire-set series and hanging out with the cast, who have all become close friends during Brassic’s six-year run. “I sort of wish Tommo was real because I'm gonna miss this character that we've made over the years,” he said. “It's weird, and it's sad that I'm not going to see the cast as much. I will see them, but it's really weird that I won't ever see those characters again. Because we improvise a bit in character, and because we hang out for so long, I feel like I know those people [the characters] as well, and I won't ever get to see them again, obviously.” View oEmbed on the source website “Like, I'm gonna miss Carol so much for her insane outfits, her just saying the weirdest things. Bronagh Gallagher's improvisation as Carol is just mad. For one whole series, she was obsessed with mentioning in all her improvs this black fox. And I don't know, it's just funny to think that I'm never gonna see those people again.” Sampson also shared the one thing he won’t miss about filming Brassic now the series is over. “I don't know if you noticed, but Tommo always gets doused in like, oil or s**t or petrol, or whatever it is. Every single episode, there's always something. So I'm really not gonna miss that. "I'm not gonna miss filming in the most stupid locations, spending six months a year up a mountain with it pissing rain. It is always raining when we film it, and you have to just work it in, and it looks great on camera. So we're not gonna miss that.” Brassic seasons 1-7 are available to stream now on Sky. Find out more about how to sign up for Sky TV. Add Brassic to your watchlist on the <a id="OWA8b702c45-bee9-94e4-f018-57518e78041b" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://www.radiotimes.com/download-the-app/?af_xp=custom&pid=website&c=editorial_content&is_retargeting=true&af_reengagement_window=30d" href="https://www.radiotimes.com/download-the-app/?af_xp=custom&pid=website&c=editorial_content&is_retargeting=true&af_reengagement_window=30d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-outlook-id="449c28d9-909e-4aab-b6b8-153454f55d5e" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0">Radio Times: What to Watch app – download now for daily TV recommendations, features and more. Check out more of our Comedy coverage or visit our TV Guide and Streaming Guide to find out what's on. For more TV recommendations and reviews, listen to The Radio Times Podcast.
Brassic season 7: Release date, trailer and latest news
The seventh season of the hit comedy will also be the last.
After seven brilliant seasons, Sky comedy series Brassic is coming to an end, with the season 7 finale set to air this week. It was announced earlier this year that the series, which has been co-created by Joe Gilgun and Danny Brocklehurst, will be the last, and Erin actress Michelle Keegan was quick to refute rumours at the time that the series had been axed. The actress wrote on Instagram: "And just for the record… Brassic has not been 'AXED' or 'cancelled'. "It’s come to a natural end after 6 fantastic seasons, and we’re currently in the middle of making the 7th and final season. "Sending love to all the Brassic fans out there." Nevertheless, it sounds as if the gang are going to get a fitting goodbye, judging by recent comments from cast members. Sugar star Joanna Higson recently teased what fans can expect from the finale, telling RadioTimes.com exclusively on the red carpet for the National Television Awards 2025, "I think they're gonna be furious!" Tommo star Ryan Sampson added: "It's sort of harrowing. The last episode is significantly more dark and intense than we've ever done before. So I'll be keen to see what people think of it." Wondering how many episodes of Brassic season 7 there are and when the season 7 finale is set to air? Read on to find out. Brassic season 7 release date: When is the finale set to air? The Brassic season 7 finale will air on Sky Max and NOW on Thursday 30th October. The show premiered on Thursday 25th September. On the announcement of the new season, series co-creator Danny Brocklehurst previously said: "Season 7! How did this happen?!? Brassic is a delight to make and it's a privilege to create more chaos for our loyal and loving audience." Similarly, head of comedy commissioning at Sky Studios, Alex Moody, said: "We couldn’t be happier that Vinnie and the gang will return for another raucous ride, bringing heart, laughs and Farmer Jim’s unrivalled swear count back to Sky for a seventh series." How many episodes are there in Brassic season 7? There are six episodes in total in Brassic season 7. Five episodes are currently available to watch on NOW. Who's in the Brassic season 7 cast? All the familiar faces are set to return for season 7. The Brassic cast members that have been confirmed for season 7 are as follows: Joe Gilgun as Vinnie Michelle Keegan as Erin Aaron Heffernan as Ash Ryan Sampson as Tommo Parth Thakerar as JJ Joanna Higson as Sugar Steve Evets as Farmer Jim Bhavna Limbachia as Meena Other cast members that we'd expect to see in season 7 include: Tom Hanson as Cardi Jude Riordan as Tyler Dominic West as Dr Chris Coxley Ramon Tikaram as Terence McCann Bronagh Gallagher as Carol Samantha Power as Donna Lee Mack as Eddie Dan Skinner as Phil Carl Rice as Ronnie Neil Ashton as Davey Muzz Khan as Adyan Johann Heske as Hans Mark O’Halloran as Francis Annette Badland as Rhoda Rachid Sabitri as Manolito Camille Cottin as Fiona Frank Steven Hartley as Russell Hardwick What is Brassic season 7 about? The official synopsis for the last ever episodes teases "lederhosen-fuelled escapades, school reunions gone wildly off the rails, and gangsters more unhinged than ever". "But amid the madness, old wounds resurface, friendships are tested, and the gang must face what their future and their past really mean." It also teases that it "will see the gang get an unmissable send-off, as Vinnie and the crew face their biggest challenge yet — clashing with old enemies, confronting long-lost family, and diving headfirst into chaos. "It’s a fitting farewell that wraps up their legendary seven-series run in unforgettable Brassic style." The season 6 finale saw JJ (Parth Thakerar) and Sugar (Joanna Higson) tie the knot but they were rocked by some tragic news, as the gang prepared to plan another event that none of them thought they would be doing. It's safe to say that the finale was a shocker, as previously teased by Higson. She had admitted: "It's the first year that you'll finish the series going, 'Oh my God.' Like, it's a genuine, massive question mark. "You can usually tell when a series is written and setup for the next bit. [You're like] 'Oh, they've written that, oh, that's it.' But this is really like ooh! It makes you think." Is there a trailer for Brassic season 7? Yes! You can watch the trailer for the final ever season of Brassic below. View oEmbed on the source website Brassic season 7 will premiere on Thursday 25th September on Sky Max and NOW. Stream all previous episodes on demand. Find out more about how to sign up for Sky TV. Add Brassic to your watchlist on the Radio Times: What to Watch app – download now for daily TV recommendations, features and more. Check out more of our Comedy coverage or visit our TV Guide and Streaming Guide to find out what's on. For more TV recommendations and reviews, listen to The Radio Times Podcast.