RATINGS: ANT & DEC'S SATURDAY NIGHT TAKEAWAY BECOMES ITV'S BIGGEST ENTERTAINMENT SHOW OF THE YEAR

The multi-award-winning ultimate family entertainment show is back. Last year it was announced that the show would be taking a break after 2024, the series previously took a pause in 2009, returning four years later in 2013.

The 20th series will have loads of brand-new high octane challenges, hilarious hidden camera set-ups and new studio games and live surprises, but it will also be a momentous magical celebration of all things Takeaway from over the years.

Last night's first episode returned with a peak of 5.6m viewers and an average of 4.9m. This makes it the biggest overnight audience of the year on ITV and the biggest Entertainment show on ITV this year.

Over the past 20 series, ITV say Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway has reached 52 million viewers, which is 90% of the UK population. This follows the third series of Limitless Win achieving an average of 4.3m viewers, consolidated after 28 days across all devices including repeats. 

Later in the series there's an unmissable ‘Get Out Of Me Ear: The Revenge’; where celebrities who have been hidden camera victims of Ant & Dec over the years get their revenge by turning the tables on them and being in their ears…it will be guaranteed chaos!

A host of new celebrity faces will be taking up Guest Announcer duties again, and every show will sign off in spectacular style when some of the world’s biggest and best performers take to the Takeaway stage for a one-off performance in the End of the Show Show, as the only series on TV that lets its audience ‘Win The Ads’ continues to be the happiest ninety minutes of the week.

With a series finale to conclude the show unlike any Takeaway has ever done before, expect unmissable live entertainment from start to finish, as Saturday night’s most feel-good series returns to kick start the weekend with a bang.  

Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway continues Saturdays at 7pm on ITV1.