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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
Entertainment
Kate Lally

Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway returning with a twist

Fans of Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway are set to notice a huge shakeup to the show's format this spring.

The variety show airs, as the name suggests, on Saturday evenings, with famous guests and big laughs. The programme returns to ITV on Saturday, February 25, for what producers call the "happiest ninety minutes of the week".

Stephen Mulhern, Fleur East, Jordan North and Andi Peters all return with Stephen putting the boys through a brand new set of high octane Ant vs Dec challenges.

READ MORE: Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway returning with major lineup

And for the first time ever, viewers will be taken "deep" behind the scenes to see what really goes into making Saturday Night Takeaway. Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway: Behind the Screens will be an exclusive sixty-minute programme that captures the "inner workings" of the programme.

Ant McPartlin told the ECHO: “We are really excited to lift the curtain a little on Saturday Night Takeaway. We'll have footage of all the ups and downs, the last-minute dramas that come with making a weekly live entertainment show.

"Believe me there are lots of dramas that happen behind the scenes!"

Ant and Dec on Saturday Night Takeaway (ITV)

Declan Donnelly added: “We love watching fly on the wall shows like Drive To Survive which goes behind the scenes of F1 so thought it could be really fun to allow the cameras to see how we make Saturday Night Takeaway. "

Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway: Behind the Screens will air this Spring on ITV.

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