Never Mind The Buzzcocks returning after five years away 🙌

It's official! Never Mind The Buzzcocks is returning to our screens later this year after five years away.

Noel Fielding will be stepping back into his team captain role for the new series, whilst newcomer Daisy May Cooper from popular comedy This Country will be going head-to-head with the Great British Bake Off presenter.

Greg Davies is back on presenting duties permanently, after the Inbetweeners and Taskmaster star previously guest hosted an episode during the 25th series back in 2011.

Greg follows in the footsteps of Mark Lamarr, Simon Amstell and Rhod Gilbert in hosting the show.

He said: “I have always loved Never Mind the Buzzcocks and am thrilled to be the new host on Sky. We have brilliant comedic talent on the team and plenty of exciting musical guests will be joining us. All that being said, I’m so sure that no one reads these press quotes in their entirety that I’m going to finish by listing types of bread: rye, sourdough, sliced white. Oh, and cob.”

The eight-episode series of the reprised show will be available to watch on Sky and NOW after being axed by the BBC in May 2015.

Talkback Productions, who were behind the original show, are creating the revived show, which will feature a tweaked format.

Never Mind The Buzzcocks ran for 28 series and 281 episodes from 1996 to 2015.

Phil Jupitus was a team captain for all 28 series with Sean Hughes, Bill Bailey and Noel Fielding captaining the other team. Mark Lamarr was the longest running host of Never Mind The Buzzcocks hosting the first 17 series.

Arguably the most memorable moment in Never Mind The Buzzcocks’ history came in 2007 when Preston from The Ordinary Boys stormed off the show in response to Simon Amstell mocking the singer’s then wife Chantelle Houghton’s autobiography.

Preston walks off Never Mind the Buzzcocks:

Preston later regretted storming off, telling the BBC: ‘I’m struggling to think why I would have acted so weird… (Simon is) funny, charming and likeable, which made it walking off all the more embarrassing.

"I wanted the floor to swallow up and eat me, so I did the next best thing and ran away, which is terrible, because I’m really not the sort of person to walk away from confrontation, I’m normally the sort of person to talk it out."

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