Noah Masire

Greg Davies is packing Wicky’s mop and heading to the Italian Dolomites. BBC One and BBC iPlayer have confirmed a one-off, hour-long special of The Cleaner, titled The Cleaner In Italy (w/t), set to air over the festive period. Filming began this week.

BBC Four is staging something of a landmark this summer. A major season of British and Irish theatre productions spanning seven decades of post-war playwriting will land on BBC iPlayer in full on Sunday 26 July, with the season launching on BBC Four the same evening at 10pm with Samuel Beckett‘s groundbreaking Not I.

Dame Sarah Storey is trading the velodrome for the ballroom. BBC has confirmed that Britain’s most decorated Paralympian will join the line-up for Strictly Come Dancing 2026, becoming the seventh celebrity announced for this autumn’s series. Storey holds 30 Paralympic medals, 19 of them gold, across careers as both a swimmer and a cyclist spanning nine Games.