ITV's new £1m Gameshow

ITV have found something new for Ant & Dec to do, well actually seems it was their idea in the first place and as well as presenting it, they'll be producing it also.

ANT and Dec are to host a new TV gameshow offering a guaranteed £1 million prize. The Con Test is a quiz with a difference - the contestants do not have to know any of the answers.

Instead it is a game of bluff in which all they have to do is convince their opponents they have answered right. There will be six shows with a £50,000 prize and the winners will go into a grand final with a £1 million jackpot.

Presenting duo Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly devised the format themselves. Dec said: "We came up with the idea about two years ago and tried it out on our friends - we played it out in a room upstairs at our local pub. "It's an exciting game. You don't need great general knowledge, but you need the intelligence to convince the other contestants you know the answers." Ant added: "I don't play poker but I've always liked the idea of bluffing your opponents. This game is all about cunning and being able to hold your nerve."

The programme will air later in the year and could run on seven consecutive nights.

Paul Jackson, director of entertainment and comedy for ITV, said: "This is addictive, scream at the telly programming. "We're delighted to be working with Ant and Dec on this promising new format - but I'm sure the boys won't mind me saying that the real stars of this show are the contestants who have got to be consummate performers if they want to win the million."

This is the only thing I've seen in their summer line up which really sounds quite interesting.

What has happend to Saturday Night Takeaway though - I think ITV could do with it back to battle Doctor Who!

Whilst as a huge gameshow fan - I appaud any new shows which appear to have money thrown at it (as this one does) - the format does sound like a reworking of the one that 'The Enemy Within' used.

If ITV are happy to let Ant and Dec produce their own show, then why didn't they allow Paul O'Grady produce his? :

Ant and Dec work best when they have their own material to ad-lib along to. This should work well. However, knowing ITV, they're probably going to scrap 'Takeaway' in favour of this - depending on the ratings.

Ant and Dec have been busy this Winter doing that film haven't they, so they've missed their slot really. It'll probably be back in the Autumn

People did say last time that it was starting to go off a bit so a long break is maybe what that show needs so it can come back back on form

I thought Takeaway wasn't coming back. I remember reading something where Ant and Dec had said they felt the show had ran it's course and that they were going to put it to bed, and come up with some new ideas for Saturday Night. I remember on the Christmas Takeaway they showed Little Ant and Dec's best bits, which would indicate that they wouldn't be returning...

Ive not heard anything about Takeaway being axed. I assumed it would be back in the Spring. ITV1 will need something to fill the gaps left by Stars in their eyes and Dancing on Ice.

Well Ant and Dec have featured quite heavily in ITV's Spring Schedule confirmations, I would have assumed that it would have been mentioned at least. I don't think it's coming back in the Spring. I'm almost positive about that one.

A few weeks ago I posted an article which said they'd recorded a pilot for a big new game-show which - if given the green light - would replace Takeaway. Someone was quoted as saying "Although the boys love the show to bit's, they know it can't go on forever and are keen to try out other things". I'm assuming this show is that pilot. I've read contradicting reports though. Some say this new show will air in the Summer - Some say "later in the year". If it is the later it may turn out we've seen the last of SNT - for now anyway. I very much doubt they've given it up for good.

Indeed it is. The pilot was titled "Poker Face" but presumably they changed it so that people don't think it's another poker show.

Ant & Dec overkill....

The quiz sounds like a good idea but why shove it on every day? ITV do like to ram things do our throats.