SM:TV Live to return for one off special?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4256380/Ant-Dec-reunite-Cat-Deeley-SM-TV-special.html

Ant and Dec are in talks to bring back SM:TV Live for a one off special next year, 20 years since it first started.

They hope to persuade Cat Deeley to return from the U.S. to present the show with them as well.

Hopefully ITV will get behind the idea, it'd be the highest rating they've had at 9:25 on a Saturday for years.

Developments should be interesting - I'd love to see SM:TV Live back on the screen. A one-off special would be nice to see...

Crumbs I feel SO OLD.

20 years already?! Where's my rocking chair?

I'd be surprised if it doesn't happen... though it's very early days according to Ant & Dec's interview on This Morning today. Cat Deeley hasn't even yet been approached on the idea.

However their suggestion of putting it back at 9.25am for a one-off morning... I'm not sure.

I understand Saturday Mornings are no longer a key viewing period for children nowadays... but if this will be aiming to reach a 30's demographic then surely it would do better one Saturday evening? I understand it would then have to be called SE:TV Live... but it might improve the figures.

Regardless I can't wait to see what happens.

20 years.... I remember watching the first episode

A Buzzfeed style BBC News article, 7 things that must be in the one off special

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39078492

I think I'd pass on Eat My Goal though, as that brings back memories of when the show was flagging after Ant and Dec had left and it was rolled out every week.

Chums, Wonkey Donkey, Postbag, Pokerap, Dec Says with Cat the Dog, Splatoon, Anty and Decy.

It needs to be a purely Ant, Dec, Cat affair, nobody is really interested in what came afterwards.

Interesting that A&D's natural instinct is to do it on a Saturday morning, and I agree with them. Sure it'd get more viewers in primetime (well, probably..these days one show in primetime can hit the ratings ceiling while whatever follows it drops off a cliff!), but it'd probably be stripped to bare minimum and more of a nostalgia show than anything. Would I want to see that? Not really. Would I like to see a live 3 hour one off including CD:UK? Yes please! It will definitely need to be fine tuned though - nostalgia can colour our thoughts all these years later. It was a perfect kids show which could be enjoyed by adults too at the time, but now Ant and Dec are such national treasures it'd have to not be dated and be up to the quality of their current shows. I think Chums, Wonkey Donkey and Challenge Ant could definitely work, Splatoon Anty and Decy and Splatoon maybe less so.

It definitely needs to be live and at The London Studios.

And what a first episode it was It morphed into a totally different format really, didn't it?

29th August was when it launched. So this will be 18 months or so off you'd think. If it happens.

Anyone remember the name of the programme that tried to bring SM:TV to prime time? It wasn't Takeaway. It was something else. I remember it had Adults playing Challenge Ant.

Slap Bang!

Slap Bang, lasted one series