Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
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Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway is a television programme shown in the UK on Saturday evenings. It is presented by Ant and Dec.
Each show ends with the main event in which a contestant from the audience attempts to win every item advertised during a randomly-chosen programme from the preceding week.
The rest of the show includes items such as:
- 'Jim Didn't Fix It' in which audience members who had written to Jim'll Fix It in their youth, but never been lucky enough to fulfil their dreams, and having those dreams realised at last
- An item where Ant and Dec are presented with a challenge known as What's Next?, of which they have no prior knowledge, which is often embarrassing, but usually funny
- 'Undercover', where Ant and Dec, wearing heavy disguises, ambush fellow celebrities (Simon Cowell being a famous, and popular, victim)
- "Little Ant" and "Little Dec": a pair of small child "lookalikes" to whom Ant and Dec delegate various interviews on the flimsy pretext of "we couldn't be bothered" and the pint-sized interviewers ask all sorts of blunt questions (some of which they obviously fail to understand totally) and bamboozle some surprisingly straight answers out of their victims. Such victims include Kevin Costner and Sarah Michelle Gellar.
- 'Ant v Dec', in which they are given a week to learn a certain task and perform it live the next week. Challenges have included tightrope walking, escapology and ventriloquism. The best remembered challenge is the motorbike stunt jump, which was called off after Dec had a bad accident during his jump, which resulted in a broken right thumb and his left arm in a sling for a few weeks afterwards. He has now fully recovered from his injuries.