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  The Independent

  From bearpit to a ‘baby comedian academy’: How Mock the Week launched the UK’s brightest comedy stars

  Since it smashed onto our screens in 2005, the panel show with a mildly terrifying reputation has become one of the best incubators for emerging comedy talent. As the final episode airs, Isobel Lewis speaks to host Dara Ó Briain and some of the series’ biggest stars about how ‘Mock the Week’ overcame that ‘elbows out’ atmosphere and what the BBC can offer new comedians going forward

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  Evening Standard

  Hugh Dennis ‘sad but proud’ as Mock The Week comes to an end

  The comedy panel show has been on air since 2005 but the 21st series will be its last.

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  The Telegraph

  Huge Homes with Hugh Dennis, review: an enjoyable property show but heaven forfend the energy bills!

  Channel 4’s long-running series Amazing Spaces takes us inside small builds. Now the broadcaster has gone to the other end of the property scale. Welcome to Huge Homes with Hugh Dennis (More4), nosing around some of Britain’s most sizeable private residences. I shudder to think about their fuel bills this winter. One home in this opening episode took six boilers to heat it up. Perhaps the owner will now wear six jumpers instead.

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  BANG Showbiz

  Tyger Drew-Honey wants to do another series of Outnumbered

  Tyger Drew-Honey is "keen'" to do another series of 'Outnumbered' but admits there are "no official plans" and he is unsure whether it will ever happen.

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  BANG Showbiz

  Dara O'Briain hits back at Andrew Neill after Mock the Week comment

  'Mock the Week' presenter Dara O'Briain has taken a swipe at Andrew Neill, after he said the comedy panel show "deserved to be cancelled".

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  BANG Showbiz

  Mock the Week to end after 17 years

  BBC Two comedy panel show 'Mock The Week' is to end after more than 17 years.

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  HuffPost UK

  Mock The Week Host Dara O'Briain Addresses BBC's Decision To Axe The Show After 17 Years

  "It would have been nice to have carried on."

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  PA Media: Entertainment

  Dara O’Briain: 17 years of Mock The Week was ‘not a bad innings’

  The comedian and host said it would have been ‘nice to carry on’ but acknowledged that such shows ‘had an era’.

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  Yahoo Celebrity UK

  'Mock the Week' axed by the BBC after 17 years

  The comedy panel show originally debuted on BBC Two in 2005.

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  Sky News

  Mock The Week axed after 17 years: Host Dara O'Briain says comedians 'couldn't be more silly than the news was already' as stars pay tribute

  Comedy panel show Mock The Week is set to end after more than 17 years, with host Dara O'Briain announcing: "We just couldn't be more silly than the news was already." Launched in 2005, Mock The Week had been a platform for regular panellists including Frankie Boyle, Chris Addison, Russell Howard, Ed Byrne, Zoe Lyons and Andy Parsons over the years, as well as Hugh Dennis, who starred from the beginning. Household names such as Michael McIntyre, Sarah Millican, Kevin Bridges, Jo Brand, John Bi

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