Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway

rdf:langString Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway

rdf:langString United Kingdom

rdf:langString English

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rdf:langString List of Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway episodes

rdf:langString Jonathan Clays

rdf:langString Lorraine Ashdown

rdf:langString Various celebrity guest stars

rdf:langString "I Just Can't Wait Till Saturday" by Will Slater & Rumble Music

rdf:langString Stuart Hall

rdf:langString David Goldstrom

rdf:langString Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (referred to simply as Saturday Night Takeaway or SNT) is a British television variety show, created and presented by Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly (colloquially known as Ant & Dec), and broadcast on ITV1 since its premiere on 8 June 2002, enduring a four-year hiatus between 2009 and 2013, while its presenters worked on other projects. 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, as well as a special mini-series of episodes involving an adventure of Ant & Dec, that were later broadcast as a special episode during the Christmas TV season. An official Saturday Night Takeaway iOS app for iPod, iPhone and iPad was released on 15 February 2013. From the thirteenth series until the fifteenth, the series finale was broadcast outside the UK, having led to a 'Place on the Plane' segment. This did return in the sixteenth series, but the trip was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. From the seventeenth series onwards, this segment was replaced by 'Takeaway Getaway' where winners are given the opportunity to take an all-inclusive holiday courtesy of TUI. The show celebrated its 100th episode on 3 March 2018. The programme returned on 19 February 2022 for its eighteenth series. Dec confirmed in the finale of the eighteenth series that Saturday Night Takeaway will return in 2023 for its nineteenth series. 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. The sixteenth series is the only series in the programme's history to feature pre-recorded episodes, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 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.