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I wonder if Ant & Dec might look to do a reality show? I know they do IAC but something a bit more modern and aligned with the trend towards strategy based games (The Traitors etc).

Whatever they do (and I do expect they’ll launch something new) I imagine it’ll come from their production company.

I’m not convinced they’ll go down the road of launching a new show for Saturdays at 7pm in the Takeaway slot like they did with Push the Button. I think the lesson to learn there is not to go for something that is too obviously seen as a replacement as it inevitably just attracts negative comparisons.

I do think rather than launch a new show in the slot ITV will rejig the schedule a bit. As Brekkie said, Masked Singer could easily sustain a couple more episodes and would benefit from not having to launch over Xmas/New Year which never works that well. I also think BGT could benefit from running a few weeks earlier, taking straight over from Masked Singer, maybe with the lives running from May Day rather than the Bank Holiday at the end of May. It would avoid that run of clashing with Eurovision/Champions League final etc.

It would also mean A&D could be spread better across the year rather than having almost all their shows in the first half of the year. I suspect whatever they do instead of Takeaway might be for September time rather than Feb/March.