Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway | |
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Genre | Light entertainment Game show Comedy |
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Presented by | Ant & Dec |
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Narrated by | Various celebrity guest stars |
Opening theme | "Saturday" by Will Slater & Rumble Music |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 20 |
No. of episodes | 135 (+ 2 specials) (list of episodes) |
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Running time | 60–95 minutes (inc. adverts) |
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Network | ITV |
Release | 8 June 2002 – present |
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In for a Penny |
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (referred to simply as Saturday Night Takeaway or SNT) is a British television variety show, presented by Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly (colloquially known as Ant & Dec), and broadcast on ITV since its premiere on 8 June 2002, enduring a four-year hiatus between 2009 and 2013, while its presenters worked on other projects. [1]
The show's format, heavily influenced by previous Saturday night light entertainment shows such as Noel's House Party , Opportunity Knocks and Don't Forget Your Toothbrush , focuses on a mixture of live and pre-recorded entertainment and quiz segments, including an audience-based quiz involving the television adverts during a week's episode of one of ITV's programmes and a competition in each series between the two presenters.
The programme proved an immense success for the broadcaster since its launch, earning several awards including Most Popular Entertainment Programme at the National Television Awards and the BAFTA for Entertainment Programme in 2013, as well as earning awards for the presenters. Its success led to several international versions being created, though most have been short-lived. The show celebrated its 100th episode on 3 March 2018. [2]
Up until 2018, episodes were broadcast live from Studio 1 at The London Studios. Following the permanent closure of the site after the fifteenth series, the programme moved to Studio TC1 at the Television Centre in West London in 2020. Saturday Night Takeaway returned for its seventeenth series on 20 February 2021 with a virtual video wall, and an ITV Hub-exclusive spin-off, Saturday Night Takeaway: Extra Helping featuring extra, unseen material from various in-show segments. [3] It was announced that the show will enter an indefinite hiatus after the twentieth series, scheduled to be broadcast in 2024, due to the extensive planning that is put into Saturday Night Takeaway and Ant and Dec's workload with other shows.
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Scarlett Moffatt | Also starring | |||||||||||||||||||
Fleur East | Also starring | |||||||||||||||||||
Andi Peters | Also starring | |||||||||||||||||||
Jordan North | Also starring | |||||||||||||||||||
Clara Amfo | Also starring |
The general set up for each episode is a selection of segments consisting of specially crafted games, comedy/entertainment films, participation by either a studio audience member, or unsuspecting viewer/public member, and a show finale consisting of a performance by a musician, dance group, singer, or group performers.
Episodes of Saturday Night Takeaway are broadcast live during the weekend, during a prime time slot on Saturday evenings for the entire run of a series. Each episode is introduced with a line-up of what segments will be featured during its broadcast, along with an introduction of the hosts themselves – from the seventh series onwards, this responsibility was given to a special celebrity announcer, who would not only give an introduction of themselves and the hosts, but would also state what viewers would expect in the show for that episode, along with an update on what was still to come before each commercial break in the programme. Prior to 2022, the opening titles were usually preceded by a cold open scene involving the hosts performing a comedy sketch, similar to the cold openings of U.S. light entertainment programme Saturday Night Live and usually with celebrity guests for the episode, which ended with them or the celebrities saying – "Roll the titles!"
Throughout the show's history, the programme has featured a variety of segments, some based on notable elements in Saturday night TV. However, Saturday Night Takeaway features a regular selection of segments that it uses frequently in the majority of its episodes. These segments include:
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The following is a list of segments used on the programme in the course of its history, that have since been retired:
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Filming for every episode is done both live, for studio segments and off-site broadcasts across the country, and pre-recorded for filmed segments. Live studio segments since the show premiered took place from Studio 1 at The London Studios, and included the backstage areas near to the studio for various sketches and banter by the presenters. Although the presenters are the primary cast members of Saturday Night Takeaway, the show also employs a variety of co-stars who would handle off-site segments. After 2018, live studio segments would cease to be conducted at London Studios following the conclusion of the fifteenth series, owing to the site's imminent closure and sale. Filming for the live studio segments were moved to Studio TC1 at the Television Centre in West London, operated and owned by BBC Studioworks, in time for the sixteenth series launch in February 2020. In March 2020, the programme suspended live studio segments, assigning these to pre-recording in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
In 2016, the production staff and the programme's creators decided to air live finales abroad in other locations, as part of a new prize-giving format involving the provision of travel holiday packages to lucky recipients within the audience and around the country. The first finale to be filmed under this new format element took place aboard the MV Britannia while it was docked in Spain during its cruise journey. The format's success led to further sites abroad being used including Walt Disney World, Florida in 2017, and Universal Orlando in 2018 and returned in 2023. However, the finale for the 2020 series was originally planned to return to Walt Disney World, but was later retained within the UK at the home of the presenters, due to the UK going into national lockdown, both as a precaution against the spread of the coronavirus and due to Disney closing the resort as a result of the pandemic.
Series | Episodes | Start Date | End Date | Ave. viewers (millions) |
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1 | 6 | 8 June 2002 | 13 July 2002 | 4.76 |
2 | 11 | 11 January 2003 | 22 March 2003 | 7.91 |
3 | 6 | 13 March 2004 | 17 April 2004 | 7.86 |
4 | 6 | 2 October 2004 | 6 November 2004 | 7.97 |
5 | 10 | 12 February 2005 | 16 April 2005 | 7.68 |
Special | 24 December 2005 | 6.22 | ||
6 | 6 | 16 September 2006 | 21 October 2006 | 7.22 |
7 | 6 | 8 September 2007 | 13 October 2007 | 6.25 |
8 | 6 | 16 February 2008 | 23 March 2008 | 7.27 |
9 | 6 | 14 February 2009 | 21 March 2009 | 6.63 |
10 | 7 | 23 February 2013 | 6 April 2013 | 7.82 |
11 | 7 | 22 February 2014 | 5 April 2014 | 7.61 |
12 | 7 | 21 February 2015 | 4 April 2015 | 6.91 |
13 | 7 | 20 February 2016 | 2 April 2016 | 7.71 |
14 | 7 | 25 February 2017 | 8 April 2017 | 7.94 |
15 | 6 | 24 February 2018 | 7 April 2018 | 8.43 |
16 | 7 | 22 February 2020 | 4 April 2020 | 8.54 |
17 | 7 | 20 February 2021 | 3 April 2021 | 7.41 |
18 | 7 | 19 February 2022 | 9 April 2022 | 5.99 |
19 | 7 | 25 February 2023 | 8 April 2023 | 5.70 |
20 | 7 | 24 February 2024 | 13 April 2024 | TBA |
Starting from the thirteenth series, the programme began airing a mini-serial with each series focused on light-hearted comedy mystery dramas starring Ant & Dec, and are primarily parodies of noted fiction genres from films and television programmes. The first serial, a parody of "whodunnit" crime mystery stories titled "Who Shot Simon Cowell?", focused on the presenters investigating the mysterious sudden shooting of Cowell at his birthday party. The popularity of the format for the programme led to additional serials being created: "The Missing Crown Jewels" for the fourteenth series, and "Saturday Knight Takeaway" for the fifteenth series (which was aired again on 2 January 2021), both parodies of the spy espionage genre of films, in which the presenters operated for the fictional organisation "Honoured" to investigate important cases; "Men in Brown" for the sixteenth series, a parody of the Men in Black film series, in which the presenters join a special organisation involved in dealing with extraterrestrial species on Earth, "Double Trouble" for the seventeenth series, "Polter Guys" for the eighteenth series and "Murder At Bigwig Manor" for the nineteenth series.
After the mini-serial is aired with each series, all episodes are later condensed into a special feature-length episode under the title of Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway Presents..., and broadcast in late December of that year. [6]
On 31 October 2013, it was announced that a live tour of the show, under the title "Takeaway on Tour", would be co-produced between Ant & Dec, James Grant Live, and ITV Studios. [7] Presented by the show's hosts, with Kim Gavin as the tour's artistic director, it featured appearances by various celebrities and performers and a number of segments from the programme, including an appearance by Ashley Roberts (who also performed at the shows) as the host of the tour's version of "Ant vs. Dec".
Demand for tickets was high, and led to extra dates and venues being added on 28 November 2013, along with some shows having their dates rearranged. [8] The tour ran for only one series of shows, between 6 August – 13 September 2014 across various cities in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, which were: London, Cardiff, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Glasgow, Belfast, Sheffield, Newcastle, Nottingham, Liverpool and Dublin.
On 24 November 2003, a compilation VHS [9] and DVD [10] containing clips from the second series was released by Video Collection International and Granada Media. The DVD release also contained some bonus extras.
On 1 November 2004, another compilation VHS [11] and DVD, [12] titled "Home Delivery" was released by Granada Ventures, this time featuring clips from the third series. Bonus features on both formats include various interviews, a behind-the-scenes featurette, and a bonus clip of Jonathan Wilkes' interaction with the Ploppies.
In 2004, Susan Presecot Games released a board game based on the series. In June 2016, another board game was released by Paul Lamond Games. [13]
The success of Saturday Night Takeaway led to the creation of a number of international versions:
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