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Find out who's taking part in the celebrity edition of The Circle

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The celebrities will be taking part in the week-long challenge to raise funds for Stand Up To Cancer.

In a game where anyone can be anyone, the celebrities taking part are drag queen Baga Chipz, reality star Charlotte Crosby, actress Denise Van Outen, singer Duncan James, rapper Lady Leshurr and YouTuber Saffron Barker.

There will also be celebrities playing the game as a double act, including Loose Women presenters Kaye Adams and Nadia Sawalha, radio DJs Rickie Haywood-Williams and Melvin Odoom and reality stars Sam Thompson and Pete Wicks. 

Channel 4 celebrates Christmas at Highclere and Warwick Castle

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The two-part series will follow the castles as they get ready for their biggest time of year, Christmas.

Highclere is famous for featuring as the family house in Downton Abbey and is home to the Earl and Countess of Carnarvon. 

Viewers will discover what life is really like at the castle and go behind the scenes with the small team who keep everything running as they prepare for the festive period.

Warwick Castle dates all the way back to 1068 and was built on the order of William the Conqueror. 

Channel 4 announces the celebrity line-up for One Night In…Hamleys

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The three comedians will be locked in the world-famous toy shop on London’s Regent Street overnight, with no security guards to hinder their fun. 

The trio will have all night to do what they imagined and dreamed of doing in a toy shop when they were kids, with the only rules being no sleeping, that’s cheating, leave everything where you found it, and if they break something, they have to pay for it. 

Channel 4 commissions Jo Brand’s How to Stay Sane in a Mad World

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Jo Brand’s How to Stay Sane in a Mad World (w/t) will see the comedian take an alphabetical journey through all the best, Covid-safe ways to stay sane over the coming winter months.

While the banana bread and sourdoughs of last March may not be sparking the same levels of inspiration, Brand is on hand to offer creative ways to cure the impending boredom.

From horticulture to hibernation, QR Codes to UV rays, the programme will give you a host of ideas to pass the time.

Kathy Burke to tackle money in Kathy Burke: All Money

As a society we are obsessed with the pursuit of wealth but our relationship to it remains complex. People can demonise those who don’t have it and sneer at those who have recently acquired it.

Across the two episodes, Burke will meet people from all walks of life to investigate the reasons for this difference in treatment, and attempt to predict how attitudes may change after the current crisis.

Channel 4 announces new scripted comedy Big Boys

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Created and narrated by Jack Rooke, the series will follow Jack (Llewellyn), a shy but sweet closeted boy in his first year of university. Jack forms an unlikely friendship with the laddish and boisterous Danny, played by Jon Pointing (Plebs).

Having spent the past year at home, grieving the loss of his father with his mum, Jack is thrown headfirst into university life, starting with the ecstasy and agony of Freshers' week. While he seems the polar opposite of his friend Danny, the pair form a close bond over the chaos of first year.

Stephen Graham and Jodie Comer to star in new Channel 4 drama Help

From RTS Award-winning writer Jack Thorne (His Dark Materials), Help tells the moving story of a young worker in a fictional Liverpool care home, Sarah (Comer), and her patient Tony (Graham), whose lives are torn apart by the coronavirus pandemic.

Graham said: “Jack is one of the greatest and most truthful writers of our generation and in Help he has crafted a profoundly important piece of social realism.

Married At First Sight UK is returning with a brand new makeover

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The new UK series will introduce a new group of singletons looking for love and their happy-ever-after but with a complete stranger. 

Similar to the Australian version, the couples will not be bound by legal marriages but instead will make lifelong commitments to one another in a wedding-like ceremony, in front of their friends and family, complete with dancing, speeches and cake. 

The real test will come after the celebrations are over and the couples must navigate their new relationship, going on a luxury honeymoon and then moving in with each other.

Channel 4 announces second series of This Way Up

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The series, produced by Merman, will see Bea and Sharon Horgan (Catastrophe) reunite as the Irish sisters Aine and Shona.

Picking up from the events of the series finale, This Way Up will continue to explore the tense will-they-won’t-they dynamic between Aine and Richard, played by Tobias Menzies (The Crown). Since Aine tutors Richard’s son Etienne, the employer-employee relationship between the pair will either halt their burgeoning romance or make it all the more passionate.