Benedict Cumberbatch turned down a role in Ab Fab movie

The Sherlock star was too busy to join Patsy and Eddie's big screen caper, reveals Joanna Lumley, but his mum Wanda Ventham cameos instead.

Caitlin and Caroline Moran's sitcom about their unconventional childhood in Wolverhampton returns tonight.

Life in the Midlands might already be a tussle with brutality but what happens when your internet is cut off and you find yourself stuck in Wolverhampton unable to do Google Image searches for Benedict Cumberbatch both with and without his hats? Or, if your sexual tastes run that way, for "Andrew Marr on his moped"?

Their mother, Della, cancels the family's internet as it's too expensive so the frantic siblings are forced to use the grimy PCs at the local library where a romantic escapade awaits the irritating, hysterical Germaine.

Meanwhile, Della, still in her jumpsuit and glaring at the world like a mean cowboy surveying the dusty, deadbeat town he's just moseyed on into, goes on an expedition to the "poor woman's IKEA" ie, a local skip where the family might forage through the junk for something useful.

7 times Benedict Cumberbatch was the best guest

7 times Benedict Cumberbatch proved he's the best Graham Norton guest.

Sara Pascoe: Zoolander 2 is a step backwards for us all

Benedict Cumberbatch's portrayal of a trans model hurts anyone who has been boxed in by statements such as 'men don't cry' or 'women are nurturing'. Gender is a prison we all live in.

Fringe Q&As: Elvis McGonagall

Elvis McGonagall discusses Benedict Cumberbatch, Spiderman onesies and why Scots don't like jokes.

The Celebrity Voicemail Show could be headed for TV

Radio 4's The Celebrity Voicemail Show imagines calls left for stars including Benedict Cumberbatch, JK Rowling, Paul Hollywood and Barack Obama - and creator Kayvan Novak wants to take it to the small screen.

Remember when Benedict Cumberbatch was in Nathan Barley

The actor - looking very young indeed - played a character called Robin, business manager to eccentric musician Doug Rocket (David Hoyle) - who 'sits in his office all day looking at charts'.

Stephen Fry: overlooking Benedict Cumberbatch & QI USA

The host of this Sunday's Bafta Film Awards tells RadioTimes.com who he'd like to take his place if the BBC Two quiz show ever got a US makeover...

Mat Baynton: Wrong Mans had its own "Sherlock problem"

It may not have a falling Benedict Cumberbatch, but The Wrong Mans series 2 had its own cliffhanger problems to solve, explains its co-creator.

Radio Times review

Impressionist Lewis Macleod, the latest recruit to Dead Ringers, now gets his own show. Duncan Wisbey and Julian Dutton have contrived some fairly wacky situations to exploit their mate's best voices.

Morgan Freeman plays Fletcher in Porridge; Gregg Wallace sings a filthy love song to Mary Berry (Kate O'Sullivan); and a running gag has Benedict Cumberbatch turning up inopportunely to spout purple prose in the manner of Sherlock Holmes.

The show claims that Macleod has been hired to impersonate movie stars who refuse to re-record their inaudible lines. We want more details.