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The 2023 Race Across The World teams - ranked!

The five teams will have to traverse Canada from the very edge of the Pacific Ocean in Vancouver to North America's most easterly city, St John's Newfoundland, all at ground level. And as always, the contestants will have to leave the modern world and all its comforts behind. There will be no air travel, no phones, no internet and no credit cards; just the cash equivalent of the same journey by plane.

New series of Mrs Brown’s Boys commissioned for BBC One

Mrs Brown at table with Winnie McGoogan and Cathy

The sitcom, fronted by Brendan O’Carroll (All Round to Mrs Brown’s), saw runaway success due to its unusual fourth wall-breaking comedy style.

Although the series itself ran for only 3 series between 2011 and 2013, Agatha Brown and her collection of family and friends have made their return every year for Christmas specials, which the BBC has commissioned up to 2026.

BBC drama to tell story of 2017 Grenfell Tower fire

The BBC has commissioned Grenfell, a drama centred on the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire tragedy which killed 72 people, displaced many more, and dismantled a west London community.

The story will be told through the eyes of the people involved, recounting the stories of the victims, their families and friends, and the firefighters tasked with handling the worst residential fire in Britain since the Second World War.

Mayflies: how the BBC adapted Andrew O'Hagan's life-affirming ode to friendship and love

Tony Curran and Martin Compston looking out to sea in BBC series Mayflies

Few novels have excited as much love and devotion as Andrew O’Hagan’s Mayflies, a funny, tender but heart-rending tale of male friendship. Now, only two years after its publication, an adaptation is coming to the BBC, an astonishingly quick turnaround for television drama.

BBC One announces Celebrity MasterChef line up

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John Torode MBE and Greg Wallace MBE are back to put 20 celebrities through their paces over six weeks to see who has what it takes to be crowned Celebrity MasterChef champion. 

Celebrities from the comedy world, sporting scene, music industry and screen and stage will be taking part. 

Last year’s winner was Team GB Paralympian Kadeena Cox, and this year’s famous faces will take part in the classic challenges, Under the Cloche, The Street Food Challenge and Dinner Party Dish. 

James Graham’s Sherwood to return for a second series

The first series, which concluded yesterday, launched to over six million viewers.

It followed two shocking murder investigations which shatter the community of Sherwood, a Nottinghamshire village still divided by a Miners’ Strike that took place three decades before.

It is writer Graham’s most personal work, having been inspired by real events that occurred in his own home Nottinghamshire mining village.

Lost Boys and Fairies commissioned by BBC One

Daf James (Credit: Rebecca Need-Menear/BBC)

The four-part drama, written by Daf James, focuses on a queer, Welsh adoption story. 

Gabriel is a singer and all round artistic extraordinaire in Cardiff’s queer club space called Neverland, who decides to adopt his first child with his partner Andy.

However, Gabriel has old wounds that need to be healed, leading him to go on a journey of self-discovery and repair the fractured relationship with his dad before he can be the parent he needs to be to 7-year-old Jake. 

Gentleman Jack: Prime-time lesbian hero

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When you write a show, you hope you’ll get good viewing figures, you hope people will like it. But the global response that we’ve had, this huge emotional response – you don’t expect that when you write telly.”

This was the visibly moved writer of Gentleman Jack, Sally Wainwright, interviewed for a sensitive and poignant new observational documentary, Gentleman Jack Changed My Life, made by Leeds-based Screenhouse Productions.

Production begins on series 12 and Christmas special of Death In Paradise

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The BBC One crime drama set on the fictional island of Saint Marie will deal with the fallout of the shock twist dropped on Commissioner Selwyn Patterson (Don Warrington) at the end of series 11.

In the feature length Christmas special, the gang will need to work together to handle a complex case.

Series 12 may see the addition of a mystery daughter for Commissioner Patterson, as well as the usual capers and whodunnits.

Amanda Holden and Alan Carr team up for The Italian Job

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Best friends Amanda Holden and Alan Carr are coming together to renovate an old and crumbling property in Italy to see if they can make a masterpiece. 

The eight-part series will see the duo join the ‘One Euro’ home buyers who are travelling to the sunny climes of Sicily to own a slice of heaven at a discounted price. 

The pair both love travel and interior design and will spend the summer settling into the Sicilian way of life, renovating a dilapidated house into a luxury holiday home.