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Encyclopedia > Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway

Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway is a See TV (disambiguation) for other uses and Television (band) for the rock band Family watching television in the 1950s. ...television programme shown in the The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a country in western Europe, and a member of the British Commonwealth and European Union. ...UK on Saturday evenings. It is presented by Anthony McPartlin (born 18 September 1975) and Declan Donnelly (born 25 September 1975), more commonly known as Ant and Dec, are popular presenters of light entertainment television programmes in the United Kingdom. ...Ant and Dec.


Each show ends with the main event in which a contestant from the audience attempts to win every item advertised during a randomly_chosen programme from the preceding week.


The rest of the show includes items such as:

  • 'Jim Didn't Fix It' in which audience members who had written to Jim'll Fix It in their youth, but never been lucky enough to fulfil their dreams, and having those dreams realised at last
  • An item where Ant and Dec are presented with a challenge known as What's Next?, of which they have no prior knowledge, which is often embarrassing, but usually funny
  • 'Undercover', where Ant and Dec, wearing heavy disguises, ambush fellow celebrities ( Simon Philip Cowell (born October 7, 1959 in Brighton, England) is a British A&R (artist and repertoire) executive for BMG Records, but is probably best known as a judge on Pop Idol and American Idol television programs. ...Simon Cowell being a famous, and popular, victim)
  • "Little Ant" and "Little Dec": a pair of small child "lookalikes" to whom Ant and Dec delegate various interviews on the flimsy pretext of "we couldn't be bothered" and the pint_sized interviewers ask all sorts of blunt questions (some of which they obviously fail to understand totally) and bamboozle some surprisingly straight answers out of their victims. Such victims include Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is an American film actor and director who has often produced his own films. ...Kevin Costner and Sarah Michelle Gellar on The Zone, on YTV Sarah Michelle Gellar (born April 14, 1977) was the leading actress in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. ...Sarah Michelle Gellar.
  • 'Ant v Dec', in which they are given a week to learn a certain task and perform it live the next week. Challenges have included Tightrope walking is a spectacle activity usually performed for the amusement of an audience. ...tightrope walking, This article is about the study of escapology. ...escapology and Ventriloquism is an act of deception in which a person (ventriloquist) manipulates his or her voice so that it appears that the voice is coming from elsewhere. ...ventriloquism. The best remembered challenge is the motorbike stunt jump, which was called off after Dec had a bad accident during his jump, which resulted in a broken right thumb and his left arm in a sling for a few weeks afterwards. He has now fully recovered from his injuries.


 
 

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