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Jack Dee will host free streaming service U ( u.co.uk ) and U&Dave’s brand new comedy game show Help Me Tiny Big Brain . Each episode sees three junior geniuses (the Tiny Big Brains) paired with three different comics who try their best not to scupper the Tiny Big Brains’ chances of victory!
Olivier and Tony Award-winning production The Play That Goes Wrong celebrates 12 years at the Duchess Theatre and extends booking until January 2028, the start of Mischief’s 20 th Anniversary Year.
Award-winning musical Operation Mincemeat has extended for the 19th time at the West End’s Fortune Theatre, with performances now running until 29th May 2027, taking the production into its fifth year in the West End.
026 Edinburgh Comedy Award winner, Chris Cantrill ( SNL UK, Icklewick FM and one-half of Delightful Sausage with Amy Gledhill) is taking his triumphant show to the Soho Theatre, London for an 11-date residency this winter and then on a UK tour in 2027.
Will Mellor and Ralf Little are set to return to U ( u.co.uk ) and U&Dave for a third series of the Broadcast Digital Awards and RTS Northen Ireland Awards-nominated Will & Ralf Should Know Better (4x60'), as the lifelong friends embark on their most personal journey yet.
The Graham Norton Show is set to return to BBC One this autumn, with the first show in the new series airing on September 25 at 10.40pm.
By: Bruce Dessau
Radge Media CIC, the company which publishes The Skinny as well as Fest and GNAW magazines, has ceased operations, leaving a question mark hanging over the future of The Skinny and Fest, two well-established publications that give essential coverage to the Edinburgh Fringe every summer.
Comedian Ola Labib has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship by Rose Bruford College. She was one of those honoured during four graduation ceremonies at Holy Trinity Lamorbey in Sidcup on Thursday 10 and Friday 11 September 2026.
The winner of Best Newcomer at Edinburgh Fringe brings her show, Cockney Stacking Doll, to Hackney
Legendary magician Penn Jillette (Penn & Teller) and America’s Got Talent fan favourite Piff The Magic Dragon will tour the UK for the very first time with a new show Piff & Pop’s Magic Shoppe. These two icons of magic (both of which have long term Vegas residencies) will bring an unmissable stage spectacular for the first time around the world for this incredible and unique collaboration. The show will also feature Piff’s companion and fellow magician his chihuahua Mr Piffles.
