The Fast Show: Just A Load Of Blooming Catchphrases will feature clips, interviews and rarely seen footage. Plus many of the show's best-loved characters in all-new scripted segments revealing what they are up to now.

Paul Whitehouse will return to star as Grandad in the West End hit Only Fools and Horses The Musical for four months from 6 January next year. This news comes as the show’s run at the Theatre Royal Haymarket is extended for a further two months until the end of April following continued demand for tickets. The show - which opened in February this year to an array of fantastic reviews - has sold over 300,000 tickets so far. 

Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse have written a book inspired by their BBC2 series Mortimer & Whitehouse Gone Fishing.

The book, which has the same title as the BBC2 series, was published by Blink Publishing on May 30. In it the two comedy greats "talk life, friendship and the joys of fishing." The comedians are also currently working on a second series which will be broadcast in summer 2019.

Let's be honest about this. If Gone Fishing did not feature comedy titans Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse it would probably not be going out on BBC2 on a Wednesday evening. In fact if it was made at all without them it would be lucky to get an airing on  – insert obscure digital channel name here – in the afternoon. The languid pace, the beautiful scenery, two elderly men discussing their heart operations. This is afternoon telly catnip. Not so much The Fast Show as The Extremely Slow Show.