With the last song lyric, Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway future is guaranteed

Ant and Dec charmed viewers with a line they started singing in current series of Saturday Night Takeaway’s last End of the Show

With one of their final statements of the new season, Ant and Dec affirmed Saturday Night Takeaway’s future.

For the last several months, the Geordie hosts have drawn in millions of viewers every weekend, with Takeaway experiencing a comeback after two years of downtime owing to the coronavirus outbreak. When being forced to broadcast the ITV show without a live audience for one week, Ant and Dec were forced to host the remaining two episodes of the season individually from their living homes in 2020, after the UK was placed under its first nationwide lockdown.

While there were still certain limitations in place at the start of last year, Saturday Night Takeaway did return, but Ant and Dec were without a studio audience once again, with managers bringing in a massive video screen displaying viewers from home. This year, with Covid regulations no longer in effect, the show has been given free reign to shine.

Every week, the studio has been full, with regular contributors Andi Peters, Fleur East, and Jordan North travelling around the nation to present on location pieces, and celebrity visitors like Michael Buble and Sam Fender visited the studio.

Ant and Dec finished the seven-episode season on Saturday night, and the End of the Show Show, which had been kept under wraps, ended up being a tribute to this year’s run, to Can Can music. A number of spectators who had been tweeting their comments on the broadcast made an appearance, as did the couple who got married live on the show.

Ant and Dec sang a phrase that had ears perk up in living rooms throughout the UK as the song approached its peak and they got right into the spirit of things with some high kicks: “We’ll miss you, even shed a tear.” Time to go, see you all next year.”

Along with being overjoyed that the programme will be returning, several viewers made a strong appeal to Ant and Dec on what should be included. After becoming television gold in its first year, many fans are clamouring for more of the Ring My Bell game, with some even suggesting that it be turned into its own programme.