Warner Bros. Discovery UK & Ireland has commissioned slate of comedy leisure for its newly refreshed channel TLC.
This follows the premiere of TLC’s brand-new comedy format Unacceptable, hosted by Ed Gamble, which launched earlier this month and can return for collection 2 later this 12 months.
Top Trumps: The Comedy Pack (w/t) is a brand new, authentic format, produced by TalkbackThames with Naked. The 8×60 studio-based collection will probably be hosted by Katherine Ryan and see a forged of comedians, led by workforce captains Joel Dommett and Jon Richardson, go head-to-head in a mixture of basic card face-offs, stay studio challenges and bluffing video games. The collection involves TLC early subsequent 12 months.
On the heels of the Mock the Week: Summer Specials, and forward of collection 2 which begins on 13 September, TLC has greenlit collection 3, 4 and 5 for the channel. Produced by Angst productions, this 22×60 order will see host Dara Ó Briain again alongside collection common Rhys James and comedy expertise. The first 7×60 collection will land on TLC in February, adopted by a Summer and Autumn collection.
Across WBD’s wider community portfolio, Quest brings viewers new collection The Race Mechanic (w/t) for October 2026, which sees Shed and Buried alumnus Sam Lovegrove – classic automotive engineers – tackle races throughout the nation as each race mechanic and sometimes as co‑driver. This 8×60 collection, produced by Beagle Media, follows Sam as he works with passionate house owners to arrange basic vehicles for classic rallies, endurance trials, hill climbs and time trials, mixes engineering, automotive historical past and race-days.
In an extra enlargement to the Shed and Buried franchise, presenters Henry and Fuzz will probably be taking up even greater initiatives in Shed and Buried: Big Stuff. This 6×60 collection, produced by HCA Entertainment and coming to Quest in early 2027, is a celebration of the automobiles that after powered business, now sitting forgotten, from agricultural and dealing automobiles to massive automobiles engineered for pace, journey and transport.
Shed and Buried can also be returninig, with S9 (20×30) and Shed and Buried: Classic Cars S5 and 6 (every 10×60) in 2027.
Also returning is Chimp Productions and Krempelwood-produced Richard Hammond’s Workshop for its seventh collection for Quest and discovery+ (8×60) in 2027, forward of collection 6 later this 12 months.
Wheeler Dealers World Tour, produced by Objective Media Group and North One, can also be again for a 3rd collection (2x5x60), coming to Discovery Channel later within the 12 months and thru 2027.
The collection have been ordered by Graham Lafferty and commissioned by Charlotte Reid for Warner Bros. Discovery UK & Ireland.
Graham Lafferty, SVP Content Strategy & Networks, UK&I, Warner Bros. Discovery stated: “Six months on from TLC’s profitable launch as a free-to-air, broad leisure channel, it’s vastly thrilling to carry one other brand-new authentic format to the schedule in Top Trumps: The Comedy Pack (w/t). We are thrilled to have the brilliantly humorous Katherine Ryan on the helm, no stranger to TLC after appearances on Mock the Week and Unacceptable, together with an distinctive comedy pairing in Joel Dommett and Jon Richardson.
“Our tackle Top Trumps is completely positioned for TLC’s rising UK comedy line-up, alongside Mock the Week – which we’re delighted to safe for an extra three collection with Dara Ó Briain satirically steering us via the 2027 information agenda – and a second collection of Unacceptable hosted by the hilarious Ed Gamble.
“For Quest audiences, we’re also excited to offer even more turbo-charged titles, including The Race Mechanic, Richard Hammond’s Workshop and Shed and Buried, shows that spotlight the passion, craft and expertise of some of the biggest names in cars right now.”
On Top Trumps: The Comedy Pack (w/t), Katherine Ryan stated: “Everyone knows Top Trumps, but no one has ever played it quite like this. We’re taking this iconic game and supersizing it into something bigger, louder and much funnier. And with Jon and Joel captaining rival teams, chaos is pretty much guaranteed.”
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