U&Dave TV Guide — Thursday, 2 July 2026

A special edition of the topical comedy show featuring seasonal material, fond favourites and previously unseen bits, with host Dara O Briain and regular panellist Hugh Dennis

Comedians Lucy Beaumont and Desiree Burch, Strictly judge Anton Du Beke and actor Ralf Little join host Rob Brydon and regular captains David Mitchell and Lee Mack on the offbeat panel show. As usual, the participants set out to hoodwink their opponents with absurd facts and plausible fibs about themselves in a bid to secure a team victory, through rounds such as Home Truths and Quick-fire Lies

Comedians Stephen Bailey and Asim Chaudhry, reality star Gemma Collins and actress Sally Lindsay join host Rob Brydon and regular captains David Mitchell and Lee Mack on the offbeat panel show. As usual, the participants set out to hoodwink their opponents with absurd facts and plausible fibs about themselves in a bid to secure a team victory, through rounds such as Home Truths and Quick-fire Lies

Aisling Bea, Urzila Carlson and Romesh Ranganathan join Alan Davies as host Sandi Toksvig asks questions on the theme of upside-down, awarding points for the answers she finds most interesting

Jimmy Carr hosts the panel show, with Rob Beckett, Katherine Ryan, Richard Osman, Tom Allen, Sophie Hermann and Sophie Duker discussing popular talking points

Richard Ayoade takes on the worst of the British climate, braving a hurricane in a wind tunnel with the help of Tim Vine to assess the best in gust-busting gadgetry. He's also joined by Marcus Brigstocke at the Hemel Hempstead Snow Centre to pressure-test cold-weather technology - with unexpected results. Finally, he reveals his bespoke survival raft built to withstand the meteorological apocalypse he's convinced is just around the corner

Richard Ayoade turns his attention to public transport, as Russell Howard joins him on the Tube to assess the effectiveness of gadgets designed to tackle poor air quality and extreme heat. Richard also takes to the London skies in a cable car to check out mobile entertainment devices, before riding a commuter train with Adam Buxton to test portable cleaning and sanitising devices. The show culminates in the unveiling of a prototype for a driverless taxi

Officers intercept a shipment of hundreds of gun parts headed for Mexico, a nurse is caught smuggling pills in her boots, and a traveller carrying goat meat is inspected

A tip-off unearths a vast shipment of heroin and cocaine disguised as garbage bags, and officers respond to a medical emergency and deal with a drunken US Marshal

The chef arrives in the state of Rajasthan, a land of palaces and hilltop forts, where he cooks a biryani fit for a royal banquet. He then heads north to the mountainous region of Himachal Pradesh, and joins local nobility at a gathering in their home village and has an audience with the Dalai Lama

The chef visits a five-star hotel in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, employing local housewives for genuine home-cooked dishes and samples chettinad chicken, a dish inspired by spices brought back from both East and West by merchants. In Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, he meets India's first MasterChef winner, and marks the end of his culinary journey with a small gathering of friends at his bungalow to reveal the outcome of his search for the perfect curry

Jeremy Clarkson spends the day at Towcester races, testing the suspension of the Citroen C6, and there is another car football spectacular, pitting the Toyota Aygos against a team of VW Foxes built in Brazil. Plus, actor Michael Gambon returns to the test track as the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car, hoping to improve on his now-infamous first appearance

The team goes on a caravanning holiday in Dorset, and actor Brian Cox is the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car. Three saloons - the Vauxhall Vectra VXR, the Mazda 6 MPS and the Ford Mondeo ST220 - are put through their paces on the test track and the Toyota Formula One team finds out how fast it is possible to drive indoors

Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse fish for wild carp in Mid Wales, spending their first day at an ancient glacial lake where Bob tries out new gear he is keen to use and hopes will make a difference to his fishing. During this trip, Bob and Paul meet Mick May and Marina Gibson, who together have started a charity called Cancer and Pisces, which offers fishing as therapeutic respite for people with cancer

Simon reaches the United States, travelling down the Rocky Mountains from Montana to Colorado. In the wide-open prairies of Montana, the cowboy way of life is under threat from a long-term decline in the rural economy, but Simon meets a former Silicon Valley executive who has envisaged a new future for the land. In a country with the highest incarceration rate in the world, Simon's final destination on this leg is a Colorado town that depends almost entirely on 11 prisons. Simon witnesses how inmates are put to work for the state, and how virtual reality is being used to prepare prisoners for life on the outside

Si King and Dave Myers demonstrate how to create a restaurant-quality meal on the tightest of budgets. They pick up some insider tips from Michelin-starred chef David Everitt-Matthias, are inspired by the work of celebrated 19th-century cook Alexis Soyer, and put everything they've learnt into practice when they help three girls say thank you to two people who are very important to them

The chef arrives in the state of Rajasthan, a land of palaces and hilltop forts, where he cooks a biryani fit for a royal banquet. He then heads north to the mountainous region of Himachal Pradesh, and joins local nobility at a gathering in their home village and has an audience with the Dalai Lama