<P> Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (referred to simply as Saturday Night Takeaway or SNT) is a British television variety show, presented by Ant & Dec, both of whom also act as the show's executive producers, and broadcast on ITV since its premiere on 8 June 2002 . Its format is heavily influenced by previous Saturday night light entertainment shows, most notably Noel's House Party and Don't Forget Your Toothbrush, while individual items often pay homage to Saturday night TV of the past, such as Opportunity Knocks . The show is notable for a quiz show in which a random member of the studio audience can win prizes based on television adverts, and for a competition in each series between the two presenters . An official Saturday Night Takeaway iOS app for iPod, iPhone and iPad was released on 15 February 2013 . In the 2017 season, after Anthony McPartlin was arrested for drink driving, the show was presented by Declan Donnelly, Stephen Mulhern and Scarlett Moffatt . </P> <P> Despite the programme enduring a three - year hiatus between 2010--2012, while its presenters worked on other projects, it was an immense success for the broadcaster since its launch . Over the course of its history, it earned notable awards, including Best Presenters at the 18th National Television Awards on 23 January 2013, and the BAFTA for Entertainment Programme, alongside the presenters winning the award for Entertainment Performance in 2014 and 2015 respectively . </P> <P> Since its thirteenth series in 2016, the show has aired its series finale outside of the UK - in 2017, Saturday Night Takeaway became the first UK show to be aired live from Walt Disney World, which it repeated again in 2018 for its series finale being aired live from Universal Orlando . On 3 March 2018, the show celebrated its 100th episode, while the penultimate episode of the fifteenth series on 31 March was the final one to be aired from The London Studios, before the studio's closure for redevelopment as had been announced in February 2017 . Starting from the sixteenth series, the programme will be aired from the newly redeveloped Television Centre . </P> <P> The general set up for each episode is a selection of segments consisting of specially crafted games, comedy / entertainment films, participation by either a studio audience member, or unsuspecting viewer / public member, and a show finale consisting of a performance by a musician, dance group, singer, or group performers . Episodes of Saturday Night Takeaway are broadcast live during the weekend, during a prime time slot on Saturday evenings for the entire run of a series . Each episode is introduced with a line - up of what segments will be featured during its broadcast, along with an introduction of the hosts themselves - from the seventh series onwards, this responsibility was given to a special celebrity announcer, who would not only give an introduction of themselves and the hosts, but would also state what viewers would expect in the show for that episode, along with an update on what was still to come before each commercial break in the programme . In the majority of episodes, the opening titles are preceded by a cold open scene involving the hosts performing a comedy sketch, similar to the cold openings of US light entertainment programme Saturday Night Live and usually with celebrity guests for the episode, which ended with them or the celebrities saying - "Roll the titles!" </P>

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