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I think they'd have factored that all in, and of course if they switch the live shows to weekly they're likely crewing them for six weeks rather than say two weeks at the moment (one week prep, one week live). I think Ant and Dec get paid enough to show up weekly rather than daily - and it's not like SNT where a seven week run involved months of prep. It's a pretty straight forward gig for them.

I suspect some of the crew would quite like getting the May half term week off too.


As I've said before I do think losing the week of live shows would be a huge shame but it's completely understandable why ITV see it. I've thought all along that ITV would seek to replace SNT by using Masked Singer and BGT rather than commissioning anything directly as that's pretty much how TV works nowadays. Saturday Night Takeaway will likely effectively be replaced by a three part documentary airing in the 9pm slot in the May half term now. 8 weeks of Masked Singer/Limitless Win then 14 weeks of BGT/1% Club would be a pretty solid line up from January to May.