{"id":19627,"date":"2022-08-02T15:59:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T13:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1689555"},"modified":"2022-08-02T16:28:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T14:28:11","slug":"mock-the-week-to-end-after-17-years-it-couldnt-go-on","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/mock-the-week-to-end-after-17-years-it-couldnt-go-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Mock the Week to end after 17 years: \u201cIt couldn\u2019t go on\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Lauren Morris\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Tuesday, 02 August 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>BBC Two has cancelled Mock the Week after 17 years of the comedy panel show, with host Dara \u00d3 Briain commenting that \u201cit couldn\u2019t go on\u201d any longer.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming the news to <a href=\"\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/tv\/tv-news\/breaking-mock-week-axed-bbc-27639098&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">The Mirror<\/a>, \u00d3 Briain \u2013 who has presented the show since it first aired in 2005 \u2013 said: \u201cThat\u2019s it folks, the UK has finally run out of news.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe storylines were getting crazier and crazier; global pandemics, divorce from Europe, novelty short-term Prime Ministers. It couldn\u2019t go on. We just couldn\u2019t be more silly than the news was already.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>More to follow\u2026<\/em><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lauren Morris Published: Tuesday, 02 August 2022 at 12:00 am BBC Two has cancelled Mock the Week after 17 years of the comedy panel show, with host Dara \u00d3 Briain commenting that \u201cit couldn\u2019t go on\u201d any longer. Confirming the news to The Mirror, \u00d3 Briain \u2013 who has presented the show since it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":19628,"template":"","categories":[5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/08\/mock-the-week-to-end-after-17-years-it-couldnt-go-on.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/08\/mock-the-week-to-end-after-17-years-it-couldnt-go-on-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/08\/mock-the-week-to-end-after-17-years-it-couldnt-go-on-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/08\/mock-the-week-to-end-after-17-years-it-couldnt-go-on.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/08\/mock-the-week-to-end-after-17-years-it-couldnt-go-on.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/08\/mock-the-week-to-end-after-17-years-it-couldnt-go-on.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/08\/mock-the-week-to-end-after-17-years-it-couldnt-go-on.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Lauren Morris Published: Tuesday, 02 August 2022 at 12:00 am BBC Two has cancelled Mock the Week after 17 years of the comedy panel show, with host Dara \u00d3 Briain commenting that \u201cit couldn\u2019t go on\u201d any longer. Confirming the news to The Mirror, \u00d3 Briain \u2013 who has presented the show since it&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/19627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}