Holmes on 2, Games on 4 and no Merchant on ads any more: the last 24 hours in comedy

• Jon Holmes is sitting in for Graham Norton all the live long summer on Radio 2. He’ll also be co-presenting it with sitcom legends including Nerys Hughes, Su (and not as the BBC would have it, Sue) Pollard, Linda Robson and Penelope Keith, in what should be some remarkably surreal radio. BBC 

• There are six Olympic-themed Now Shows during the Games, meaning Radio 4 won’t be a safe refuge from the Olympics after all. BBC Tickets

• Stephen Merchant has quit being the voice of Barclays because of American commitments. Lucky Michael Spicer’s little beauty snuck out first, eh? Evening Standard

• There’ll be a Del Boy and Alan Partridge room at the new BBC Broadcasting House. There’ll also be Captain Mainwaring, Edina and Patsy, Basil Fawlty, Morecambe and Wise and Bex from According to Bex (tbc) rooms. Telegraph

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