British entertainment hit Saturday Night Takeaway will not return to screens until 2020 after host Ant McPartlin revealed that he is taking the rest of the year to deal with personal issues. McPartlin will also step aside from hosting I'm A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here this November, which means that co-host Declan…

ITV will air the final two episodes of this season of Saturday Night Takeaway with Declan Donnelly handling hosting duties on his own after his co-host Ant McPartlin was involved in a suspected DUI. The British broadcaster pulled this weekend's episode of the ITV Studios-produced show following the incident but has…

UPDATED with show being pulled: ITV has pulled its hit show Saturday Night Takeaway this coming weekend after co-host Ant McPartlin was involved in a suspected DUI yesterday. The presenter will now return to rehab, the broadcaster said. No decisions have been made about the final two episodes of the show, due to be…

Popular UK TV hosts Ant and Dec have extended their relationship with ITV under a new contract that puts them exclusively on the channel until at least the end of 2019. The three-year deal includes further cycles of reality series I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!, which returned Sunday night with an average 10.7M…

The same afternoon NBC announced it had picked up a Neil Patrick Harris-hosted adaptation of British variety series Saturday Night Takeaway, Harris described his idea of the perfect variety-show scenario with Charlie Rose. "In a perfect world, in five years I'm Ed Sullivan," he said in an interview taped yesterday for…

Neil Patrick Harris, who has made no secret of his desire to host an Ed Sullivan Show-esque variety series, finally has a taker: NBC. The network announced this afternoon it is bringing five-time Emmy Award winner Harris to the network for a new primetime variety series based on the popular UK format Ant And Dec's Satu…

American networks have been looking to bring the variety format back to primetime, most recently NBC with The Maya Rudolph Show, now they have another choice. ITV Studios America is shopping an U.S. version of the popular ITV program Saturday Night Takeaway. Originally launched in 2002, Saturday Night Takeaway, hosted…