It does make you wonder if this opens up the opportunity for both Ant and Dec to actually establish themselves individually alongside a continued partnership. When you think about the most successful TV duos of the last 40 years or so most also had individual success too - indeed Morecambe and Wise are probably the exception rather than the rules.
Hmmmm, Little and Large, Cannon and Ball and Mike and Bernie Winters being another three exceptions to that.
It depends on where they come from, the above were acts formed on the old style variety circuits who then came to television as a pair. Nowadays it's more a case of two people who can write and perform in their own right deciding to collaborate.
Also I think since Eric Morecambe died there's been more pressure on double acts not to be the Ernie. Though modern double acts don't do the straight/man funny set up so that's not so much an issue.
Ant and Dec are the exception because they're not really a comedy act as such. They didn't seem to have a plan or strategy for going it alone, but then don't really need one as they're mainly presenting to camera and as we've seen they can do that alone
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