A legendary show is returning with its original host seven years on from being axed and recording kicks off next week. 

Hit BBC comedy series Room 101 last aired on TV back in 2018 and saw guests talk about their pet peeves.

The popular programme began as a BBC Radio 5 show back in 1992 and was hosted by Nick Hancock. 

It then moved to TV screens in 1994 and in 1999 Paul Merton stepped in to front the show until 2007. 

Room 101 then returned with in 2012 with Frank Skinner until it was axed in 2018 after 24 years. 

Since then, the programme has made a comeback and returned in May 2023 with Paul hosting and taking the show off screens and back to it’s radio roots.

Hit BBC comedy series Room 101 last aired on TV back in 2018 and saw guests talk about their pet peeves

The popular programme began as a BBC Radio 5 show back in 1992 and was hosted by Nick Hancock, pictured left

The first series of the show aired on BBC Radio 4 and a second went live in 2024.

Now, recordings for series three of Room 101 will take place on March 24 and April 7. 

A producer told The Sun: ‘Room 101 returns to Radio 4 in its original one-to-one incarnation, with host Paul Merton interviewing a variety of guests from the world of comedy and entertainment to find out what they would banish to Room 101.’

Two series of the radio show are available to listen to on BBC Sounds. 

Room 101 got its name from the torture room full of one’s worst fears in George Orwell’s 1984, and the TV equivalent saw celebs cast their biggest pet peeves into the vault for all eternity.

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It comes after last year, Frank Skinner revealed why the BBC chose to axe his hit panel show Room 101 after 18 series and 24 years in 2018.

The 67-year-old comedian, whose real name is Christopher Collins, said he ‘made the mistake’ of asking the BBC’s chief content officer, Charlotte Moore, a fateful question in the lead up to the show being decommissioned.

Speaking to the Radio Times, Frank said: ‘I made the mistake of asking Charlotte Moore at a meeting what she’d personally put into Room 101, given the choice, and shortly after that we were decommissioned.’

The Three Lions writer and performer emphatically told the Daily Star following the 2018 axing: ‘Who the f*** cares?

‘Room 101 is ᴅᴇᴀᴅ. But I’m all right fiscally. I’ve done seven series. I don’t feel that I have been washed up on the shores of stand-up.’

And Frank still made quite the impression on the entertainment industry, being awarded an MBE for services to entertainment in the 2023 New Year’s honours.

That followed the death of his former Absolute Radio co-host Gareth Richards, who died aged just 41 following a car crash.

Room 101 then returned with in 2012 with Frank Skinner, pictured, until it was axed in 2018 after 24 years

Since then, the programme has made a comeback and returned in 2023 with Paul Merton, pictured, hosting and taking the show off screens and back to it’s radio roots

Witty as ever on receiving his gong, Frank joked that there may have been an ‘administrative error’.

‘I deal mainly in laughs and applause and they disappear into the air quite quickly,’ he said.

‘So getting a proper medal that you can hold on to and polish regularly feels it has given my career a sense of permanence that I like.’ 

Room 101 has had two series back on the airwaves so far – where it spent four series from 1992 before being moved on-screen. 

Merton was joined by the likes of Claudia Winkleman, Julian Clary and Steph McGovern in the six-part renaissance.