Saturday Night Takeaway 2018

The tabloids are reporting that there are ‘crisis talks’ happening this afternoon about how to address the issue with Ant. I would be very surprised, amazed in fact, if it had not been discussed extensively over the last two weeks.

Curiosity may lead to more viewers for tonight’s show, but I don’t think it’ll be higher than 8m. It’ll certainly be a very strange atmosphere, but I imagine there will be more good will for Dec than anything else.

It would be a crisis if they'd only suddenly decided to discuss it a few hours before broadcast when they've had nearly 2 weeks to talk about it.

Maybe someone forgot....

You don't forget when half of your presenters are absent for a week's worth of rehearsals.

Um... I really don't think they would leave how to address the 'elephant in the room' until a few hours before transmission. It would have surely been the first thing they thought about two weeks ago when they decided to resume transmission.

If anything the only awkward or interesting part will be the start of the show. The rest won't probably seem that different just with Dec at the helm.

It seems the papers did I hope someone else caught that tongue in cheek reply

The papers only care what makes good headlines, not what the facts are.

Same titles! Well done ITV!

Just started with normal titles feature both Ant & Dec

So it was barely mentioned at all. Apart from Dec saying he's got double the amount of work tonight and Dec looking visibly quite nervous.

Plus now we got Davina McCall on the sofa doing This Time Next Year

You could hear the nerves in his voice during the first couple of minutes. Quite sad