Saturday Night Takeaway 2018

Now the papers are claiming Ant will still appear now on the show on the pre-record stuff Everyone know that was to happen.. papers need better reporters.

EXCLUSIVE: ANT TO RETURN TO THIS WEEKEND'S SATURDAY NIGHT TAKEAWAY!

(in a pre-recorded segment)

Talk of the devil: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/5906135/ant-mcpartlin-saturday-night-takeaway-whodunnit-pre-recorded/

They're still going to sponsor the last two episodes, it's the special ads that were shown as part of the ad breaks that have been canned.

And, presumably, the actual regular ad campaign they'd been a part of for some time.

Although the way it was worded suggested the deal had come to an end anyway.

Virgin Atlantic has released a trailer for their last show sponsorship, which interestingly has a brief clip of the passengers watching Takeaway on the plane...with Dec presenting solo!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKAIm_GxedU

To be fair that clip has Dec stood in front of the plane on the stage which has happened every week for the Happiest minute of the week segment, Ant has been in the audience.

Cusack is right. Dec always introduces the Happiest Minute on his own, so it's nothing more than clever (or coincidental) editing. Once again, DM making something out of absolutely nothing.

In fact, adding to my point about the tabloids, a glorious red top that shall remain nameless to prevent any ad revenue-making clicks currently has a link on their website citing how "furious Dec Donnelly calls Ant McPartlin a 'scumbag", only to reveal it's a playful insult as part of the mini-series Saturday Knight Takeaway. I do hope one day this behaviour somehow backfires on them.

God, the tabloid press’ websites are even worse than their newspaper form. You didn’t think it possible but it’s true! The Mirror constantly runs headlines like ‘Programme Name has been CANCELLED’ to make you think it has permanently ended when it was just off air because of the holidays or something.

I really think that there should be far more regulation for newspapers and online newspapers because of headlines such as "furious Dec Donnelly calls Ant McPartlin a 'scumbag", "‘Programme Name has been CANCELLED" or "PERSON storms off the set of This Morning" are all highly misleading." I understand newspapers need to be creative with their headlines in order to sell papers but at the same time I don't think it should be written in the way that gives people the wrong impression.

For example "PERSON storms off the set of This Morning" is designed to give the impression that the person was angry when it was clearly (when you watch the clip) done in a jokey way - in my mind while technically true it is clearly misleading as it gives people the wrong impression.

I think there was a headline in the Sun a couple of days ago about Ant's crash along the lines of "Ant crashes for the THIRD time in a week". Only one of those was referring to the drink drive incident and the other two to crashes in a segment of a show (I think). This clearly paints Ant in a negative light and again is highly misleading.

I really don't see why newspapers should be allowed to do this so blatantly while television is so heavily regulated (often too much I think).