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Joan Bakewell returns for a brand new season of Sky Arts’ Portrait Artist of the Year. As ever, the competition to find the nation’s new talent will be fierce and overseen by Joan and Stephen Mangan. The new series starts on Wednesday 13th October at 8pm and continues for ten weeks.

Joan Bakewell presents Landscape Artist of the Year, as the competition searching for the nation's best landscape painter returns for the sixth series. The first episode finds the batch of hopefuls painting a scene of Chartwell House in Kent. Starts Wednesday 13th January at 8pm on Sky Arts.

Joan Bakewell joins the Have I Got News For You panel on Friday 20th November at 9pm on BBC One.

Joan Bakewell returns for a second series of the lockdown inspired Portrait Artist of the Week on Sunday 18th October. Joan will introduce the programme from home and each week a famous face will sit for portrait painters across the country. The show is live on Facebook at 10am and airs on Sky Arts…

Congratulations to Joan Bakewell and the rest of the team at Portrait Artist of the Year for being nominated for Best Popular Factual Programme in the Broadcast Digital Awards 2020. The winners will be announced at the virtually hosted event on 14th October 2020.

Joan Bakewell presents Portrait Artist of the Week, a Lockdown version of Sky Arts' hugely successful series, Portrait Artist of the Year. It will be a live interactive show streamed on Sky TV's Facebook page on Sundays from 10am - 2pm, from Sunday 26th April. A highlights show will also be…