Mock The Week returns for a new series on Thursday May 13 at 10pm on BBC Two.

Or as the press release put is: "According to plans to be announced shortly, the green light has already been given for series 20 to begin broadcasting from Thursday May 13th at 10pm with the public actively encouraged to indulge in responsible levels of Dara O’Briain and Hugh Dennis in their home bubbles or small groups outdoors.   

Pointing to a graph that shows a clear bottoming out in levels of amusement since Mockdown began in early February, a leading boffin was adamant that the gradual time frame was still vital: “Everybody wants to see jokes about Dara looking like the Megabus man, Rhys James being a schoolboy and Maisie Adam living in a dip as often as possible, but it would be frankly irresponsible at this stage to allow more than six half hour episodes in May and June and a further six plus an end of year special in November and December. Let’s just be glad and not greedy”  

The new series will feature Ed Byrne, Angela Barnes, Rhys James, Kerry Godliman, Milton Jones, Glenn Moore and Maisie Adam will be joined by Ahir Shah, Catherine Bohart, Laura Lexx, Darren Harriott, Ivo Graham, Eshaan Akbar, Athena Kugblenu and Felicity Ward.

There will also be debut appearances for Alasdair Beckett-King, Kae Kurd, Robin Morgan, Evelyn Mok and Chris McCausland.

Series 20 runs for thirteen episodes in 2021 with six shows airing in May and June and the rest in November and December.  

Mock the Week was created by Dan Patterson and Mark Leveson, the duo behind the iconic improv-based show Whose Line Is It Anyway? which ran for ten years on British TV before successfully transferring to the United States. Pinki Chambers is the Commissioning Editor for the BBC. It is produced for the BBC by independent production company Angst Productions.

Mock The Week, Thursdays from May 13 at 10pm on BBC Two. The guests on the first episode are Maisie Adam, Angela Barnes, Rhys James, Eshaan Akbar and Alasdair Beckett-King.