Mock The Week

Why I Hate... Mock the Week without Frankie

I never thought I'd be writing about how much I miss Frankie Boyle. Until a few months ago, I'd never even seen an episode of Mock the Week. Then a friend recommended it, and now I'm hooked.

Series nine of the panel show hosted by Dara Ó Briain continues to offer amusing satire on the week's events, although topicality appears to be less important than good jokes if the popularity of the recycled earlier series on digital channel Dave is anything to go by. Ó Briain will be joined as usual by stand-ups Andy Parsons, Russell Howard and bishop's son Hugh Dennis.

Mock the Week review

Three cheers! The latest series is a Frankie Boyle-free zone. At last the audience can stop cringing and start laughing again.

Mark Watson: I have mixed feelings about Mock The Week

"So, of course, I want to be in shows like Mock The Week, I think they're good, but at the same time, I often feel a bit threatened by them."

Mock the Week Episode 9.1 Review

Like him or loathe him, the departure of Frankie Boyle two series ago has left Mock the Week feeling toothless.

With the departure of the notorious and sometimes offensive Frankie Boyle just a distant memory, the satirical panel show - a sort of fusion of Have I Got News for You and Whose Line Is It Anyway? - returns for its ninth series. With much of the show based on the week's news, there's no way of knowing what topics the panellists will be poking fun at, but Dara O Briain is back in the host's chair, presiding over Hugh Dennis, Russell Howard, Andy Parsons et al like a twinkly-eyed, indulgent uncle, while the irrelevant scoring system and weird mix of sit-down/stand-up rounds is intact. The show is undoubtedly a bit softer without Boyle but, along with BBC2's QI, it always manages to deliver intelligent comedy.

Has Mock the Week lost its spark?

Just when TV didn't need to be any more blokey the panel show returns to our screens. Will you be watching? Or have you had quite enough already?

BBC Two welcomes back Mock The Week

The BBC is pleased to announce that hard-hitting panel show Mock The Week has now rejected the opportunity to form a coalition with Have I Got News For You and The One Show and chosen to go it alone in tackling the advent of a new Prime Minister, possible financial disaster and certain World Cup disappointment.

Milton Jones: 'It's pressured on Mock The Week'

Mock The Week guest panellist Milton Jones has admitted that he finds it hard to interrupt other comics on the programme.