{"id":495140,"date":"2026-03-25T21:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T21:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/495140\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T21:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T21:03:08","slug":"rob-brydon-to-star-in-new-bbc-comedy-series-bills-included","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/495140\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Brydon to star in new BBC comedy series Bill&#8217;s Included"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The new series will follow Brydon&#8217;s character Bill Bream who is forced to rent out his spare rooms following his divorce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It follows him finding his feet as a landlord and housemate to Gen Z lodgers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brydon said: &#8220;I feel very lucky to be part of Bill&#8217;s Included. Alex Owen and Ben Ashenden have written some truly wonderful scripts and I can&#8217;t wait to help bring them to life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The show will also star Dylan Brady, Ada Player, Harry Baxendale and Yasmine Al-Khudhairi as the students who become part of the unlikely house share. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new series will follow Brydon&#8217;s character Bill Bream who is forced to rent out his spare rooms&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-495140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}