{"id":201,"date":"2025-10-20T22:00:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T22:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/badvibes.live\/?p=201"},"modified":"2025-10-20T18:47:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:47:00","slug":"mock-the-week-confirms-comeback-for-reboot-4-years-after-devastating-axe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badvibes.live\/?p=201","title":{"rendered":"Mock the Week confirms comeback for reboot 4 years after devastating axe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It\u2019s official: a Mock the Week reboot will come to British TV in 2026, just three years after it was axed by the\u00a0BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The satirical news commentary show, which boosted the comedy and TV careers of\u00a0Hugh Dennis<\/a>, Dara \u00d3 Briain, Frankie Boyle, and\u00a0Russell Howard<\/a>\u00a0will return next year.<\/p>\n

Beginning in 2005, the\u00a0comedy<\/a>\u00a0panel series took a light-hearted look at weekly news, and was a huge success,\u00a0staying on the air until November 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now it\u2019s been confirmed that Mock the Week will return on TLC, as the channel becomes free-to-air in the UK in January 2026, bringing a load of scripted and non-scripted content with it.<\/p>\n

A statement from Warner Bros. Discovery confirmed that the show\u2019s return, produced by Angst Productions, would give the \u2018much-loved\u2019 series a \u2018new look\u2019.<\/p>\n

No cast news has been confirmed yet, but fans will be hoping to hear from Hugh, Frankie, Russell, and fellow comedian Andy Parsons once more.<\/p>\n

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TLC began as a successful channel in the\u00a0US<\/a>, launching in the UK in 2013 -bosses at Warner Bros. Discovery have decided to revamp it in the UK, axing HGTV at the same time.<\/p>\n

From 2026, TLC will also feature scripted content, such as\u00a0The Big Bang Theory<\/a>\u00a0and its long-running comedy drama spin-off series\u00a0Young Sheldon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mock the Week began with modest viewing figures, average around 1.5 million viewers per episode during its first group of episodes on BBC Two.<\/p>\n

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It was towards the end of the 2000s that number started to climb, with 3.8 million people turning in to watch episodes featuring comedians such as Ed Byrne.<\/p>\n

However, viewing figures began to fall again as the 2010s continued, with the final episode of the 2021 Mock the Week season watched by just 1.63 million.<\/p>\n

Any future casting decisions will be likely to continue on from the ethos established by producers as the show continued, with the diversity of comedians increasing as it went along.<\/p>\n

Milton Jones, a comedian who appeared on the show many times, told BAD VIBES\u00a0<\/strong>in 2022 that\u00a0Mock the Week had become \u2018much nicer\u2019<\/a>\u00a0and more balanced now that it was no longer just \u2018seven white blokes\u2019 telling jokes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  It\u2019s official: a Mock the Week reboot will come to British TV in 2026, just three years after it was axed by the\u00a0BBC. The satirical news commentary show, which boosted the comedy and TV careers of\u00a0Hugh Dennis, Dara \u00d3 Briain, Frankie Boyle, and\u00a0Russell Howard\u00a0will return next year. Beginning in 2005, the\u00a0comedy\u00a0panel series took a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t