First look images have been released for the third series of much-loved Welsh comedy Mammoth with Elizabeth Berrington (Tip Toe, Good Omens), Freddie Meredith (Saturday Night Live UK, Such Brave Girls, Youth) and Mark Benton (Smoggie Queens, Patience) joining as guest artists.
Episodes 1 & 1 of the heats for the BBC New Comedy Awards will air on 31st October at 22:30pm on BBC Three and will also be on BBC iPlayer.
Below are interviews with this year's head judge Amy Gledhill and judges Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Dan Tiernan.
Amy Gledhill
1. You’ve gone from performing with The Delightful Sausage to winning the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show. What were the moments that made you realise comedy could become a career?
Monday 2nd November’s grand final sees the culmination of the year-long search for new comedy talent at the Frog and Bucket Comedy Club in Manchester. Previously known as the World Series, it’s now simply the Beat the Frog - Grand Final but the remit is the same.
Gary Joel is the West End New (old) Act of the Year for 2026.
Elf Lyons' show Elf Lyons is The Woman on the Edge has been rated as the best reviewed show of this year's Edinburgh Fringe. It had more reviews than any other show (37), and was the best-reviewed show with an average of 4.63 stars out of five.
The Tony® and Olivier® Award-winning musical Operation Mincemeat is officially heading to Australia as the next leg of its World Tour, set to premiere at Comedy Theatre in Melbourne in September 2027, with further cities to be announced.
John Kearns. the winner of Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show and Best Newcomer and Taskmaster breakout star has added more dates to his latest stand-up tour Tilting at Windmills. The stand-up will now perform 80+ shows across the UK and Ireland, including his biggest performance to date and London’s iconic Palladium Theatre on Saturday 13th March 2027, following multiple sold-out shows on this tour already at the 1000 capacity venue Soho Theatre Walthamstow and Wilton’s Music Hall.
New images have been released for upcoming comedy, Stepping Up, written and created by Josh Pugh (Sneakerhead, How Are You? It's Alan (Partridge)). Pugh also stars in the series.
The new series of The Celebrity Traitors begins on Thursday 1 October at 8pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer. The series will air two nights a week on Thursday and Friday.
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Tom Allen announces his brand-new UK tour, Totally, which hits the road in 2027 running through to 2028.
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