Mock The Week Returns For 14th Series

The BBC has announced that Mock The Week's 14th series will coincide with the show's 10-year anniversary. However, there are no plans to mark the occasion.

Instead, it has been decided that the most appropriate way of honouring the programme's history is to stick to its winning formula of topical discussion, stand-up and performance, hosted by Dara O'Briain and his colleagues such as Hugh Dennis, Andy Parsons, Ed Byrne, Milton Jones, Zoe Lyons and Katherine Ryan. Joining them will be comedy performers including Josh Widdicombe, Rob Beckett, Sara Pascoe, Romesh Ranganathan and James Acaster, as well as newcomers Matt Forde and Ellie Taylor.

Mock The Week was created by Dan Patterson and Mark Leveson, the creative force behind the improv-based show Whose Line Is It Anyway?, a new series of which recently premiered on the CW Network in the US.

Pinki Chambers is the Executive Editor for the BBC. It is produced for the BBC by independent production company Angst Productions.

Series 14 runs for six weeks in June and July, returning for a further six weekly episodes in September and October.

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(JP)