Katherine Ryan to host new TLC show Top Trumps: The Comedy Pack

With team captains, Joel Dommett and Jon Richardson!

TLC has announced that Katherine Ryan will host a comedy first-take on card game Top Trumps: The Comedy Pack in early 2027, with team captains Joel Dommett and Jon Richardson.

Top Trumps: The Comedy Pack, currently the show's working title, sees one of the nation's favourite card games explode onto the studio floor for an eight-part series, hosted by Katherine Ryan.

An all-star cast of comedians, led by team captains Joel Dommett and Jon Richardson, will go head-to-head in this first comedy take on the much-loved game, battling through a mix of classic card face-offs, live studio challenges and bluffing games.

Speaking ahead of the new seires, Katherine Ryan said "Everyone knows Top Trumps, but no one has ever played it quite like this. We’re taking this iconic game and supersizing it into something bigger, louder and much funnier. And with Jon and Joel captaining rival teams, chaos is pretty much guaranteed."

To which Joel Dommett added "Top Trumps and me have a lot in common - it’s fun, simple and older than you think. I used to get very excited playing Top Trumps back in the day, and now I get to play it on the telly with two famously un-excitable comedians Kathrine Ryan and Jon Richardson. It’s really gonna be a blast."

And Jon Richardson said "For too long the world has been led to believe that there are no good Trumps, so I'm delighted to be on a show that celebrates the very best of them. I'm a sucker for a game with clear rules and a winner at the end so Top Trumps has always made sense to me. Let's see whether careful planning can beat sheer enthusiasm once and for all."

Top Trumps: The Comedy Pack is made by TalkbackThames with Naked.

Top Trumps: The Comedy Pack will air early 2027 on TLC