Warner Bros. Discovery UK & Ireland stacks the deck with over 90 hours of new comedy and motoring content, including brand-new comedy format Top Trumps: The Comedy Pack (w/t) for TLC
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Katherine Ryan to host a comedy first-take on card game Top Trumps: The Comedy Pack (w/t) for TLC in early 2027, with team captains Joel Dommett and Jon Richardson
Bumper Mock the Week order announced for 2027 as TLC greenlights series 3, 4 & 5
Across WBD's wider network portfolio, brand-new series The Race Mechanic with Sam Lovegrove, plus more from the Shed and Buried franchise, Richard Hammond's Workshop and Wheeler Dealers World Tour
22 July 2026 - London, UK - Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) UK & Ireland has today announced a commissioning slate packed full of even-more comedy entertainment for its new-look, free-to-air channel TLC.
The announcement follows the premiere of TLC's brand-new comedy format Unacceptable, hosted by Ed Gamble, which launched earlier this month and will return for series 2 later this year.
Top Trumps: The Comedy Pack (w/t) is a new, original format, which sees one of the nations favourite card games explode onto the studio floor. Produced by TalkbackThames with Naked, the 8x60 series will be hosted by Katherine Ryan and see an all-star cast of comedians, led by team captains Joel Dommett and Jon Richardson, go head-to-head in this first comedy take on the much-loved game - battling through a mix of classic card face-offs, live studio challenges and bluffing games. The series comes to TLC early next year.
Hot on the heels of the Mock the Week: Summer Specials, and ahead of series 2 which starts on 13 September, fans can look forward to plenty more Mock the Week in 2027, as TLC greenlights series 3, 4 and 5 for the channel. Produced by Angst productions, this 22x60 order will see host Dara Briain back alongside series regular Rhys James and an array of top comedy talent. The first 7x60 series will land on TLC in February, followed by a Summer and Autumn series - delivering regular doses of news-led satire, topical fun and cheeky innuendo.
Across WBD's wider network portfolio, Quest brings viewers brand-new series The Race Mechanic (w/t) for October 2026, which sees Shed and Buried alumnus Sam Lovegrove - one of the UK's most experienced vintage car engineers - take on iconic races across the country as both race mechanic and occasionally as co driver. This 8x60 series, produced by Beagle Media, follows Sam as he works with passionate owners to prepare classic cars for vintage rallies, endurance trials, hill climbs and time trials, blending expert engineering, rich automotive history and race-day jeopardy.
In a further expansion to the Shed and Buried franchise, Henry and Fuzz will be taking on even bigger projects in Shed and Buried: Big Stuff. This 6x60 series, produced by HCA Entertainment and coming to Quest in early 2027, is a celebration of the oversized, the over engineered and the overlooked vehicles that once powered industry, fed the nation, carried communities and fired imaginations, now sitting forgotten in sheds, yards and fields across the country, from agricultural giants and working vehicles to icons of speed, travel and transport. And that's not all from Henry and Fuzz: they will also be back for Shed and Buried S9 (20x30) and Shed and Buried: Classic Cars S5 and 6 (each 10x60) in 2027.
Also returning is Chimp Productions and Krempelwood-produced Richard Hammond's Workshop for its seventh series for Quest and discovery+ (8x60) in 2027, ahead of series 6 later this year.
Wheeler Dealers World Tour, produced by Objective Media Group and North One, is also back for a third series (2x5x60), coming to Discovery Channel later in the year and through 2027.
Graham Lafferty, SVP Content Strategy & Networks, UK&I, Warner Bros. Discovery said: Six months on from TLC's successful launch as a free-to-air, broad entertainment channel, it's hugely exciting to bring another brand-new original format to the schedule in Top Trumps: The Comedy Pack (w/t). We are thrilled to have the brilliantly funny Katherine Ryan at the helm, no stranger to TLC after appearances on Mock the Week and Unacceptable, along with an exceptional comedy pairing in Joel Dommett and Jon Richardson. Our take on Top Trumps is perfectly placed for TLC's growing UK comedy line-up, alongside Mock the Week - which we are delighted to secure for a further three series with Dara Briain satirically steering us through the 2027 news agenda - and a second series 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 said: 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.
Joel Dommett said: Top Trumps and me have a lot in common - it's fun, simple and older than you think. I used to get very excited playing Top Trumps back in the day, and now I get to play it on the telly with two famously un-excitable comedians Kathrine Ryan and Jon Richardson. It's really gonna be a blast.
Jon Richardson said: For too long the world has been led to believe that there are no good Trumps, so Im delighted to be on a show that celebrates the very best of them. Im a sucker for a game with clear rules and a winner at the end so Top Trumps has always made sense to me. Lets see whether careful planning can beat sheer enthusiasm once and for all.
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Warner Bros. Discovery UK & Ireland stacks the deck with over 90 hours of new comedy and motoring content, including brand-new comedy format Top Trumps: The Comedy Pack (w/t) for TLC 
