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Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
GenreEntertainment
Presented byAnt & Dec
StarringKirsty Gallacher (2005–09)
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series9
No. of episodes63 (inc. 1 Christmas special)
Production
Production locationThe London Studios
Running time75mins (inc. adverts)
Production companiesLWT (2002)
Granada Productions (2003-5)
ITV Studios (2006-9)
Gallowgate (2007-9)
Original release
NetworkITV, STV, UTV
ReleaseJune 8, 2002-March 21, 2009, 2013 –
Present
Related
Slap Bang with Ant & Dec
Ant & Dec's Push the Button
Red or Black?

Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway is a variety show that aired in the United Kingdom on Saturday evenings on ITV, presented and executively produced by Ant & Dec. It is broadcast live from The London Studios on the South Bank. The format was 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 Jim'll Fix It and Opportunity Knocks).

On 10 September 2005, ITV had a programme listing the best 50 shows in ITV's 50 years being on air. Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway came second, being beaten by Coronation Street. Launched in 2002, the show was unbeaten for four series in its timeslot until scheduled against Doctor Who on BBC One in March 2005. The show entered hiatus in 2010 after its ninth series to allow Ant & Dec to launch family game show Ant & Dec's Push the Button and Red or Black?. However, in November 2011, it was announced that Saturday Night Takeaway would return in early 2013.[1][2] After winning the Award for Best Presenters at the 18th National Television Awards on 23 January 2013, Ant & Dec announced that the show will return on 23 February 2013.[3]

Pre-titles clip

Before the titles a comedy clip is shown.

  • Series 1 & 2: Backstage
  • Series 3 & 4: Dressing room (show 1 opening for series 3 was set in the pub and show 1 opening for series 4 was a dream sequence)
  • Series 5 & 6: Outside dressing rooms
  • Series 7 & 8: "London Studios Canteen" (show 1 opening for series 8 was set in the control room and show 6 opening also included a pub)
  • Series 9: Backstage/control room

The beginning games

All series. At the start of the show, Ant and Dec always perform a short comedy sketch, usually based on something that has happened in the news recently. E.g.; when a celebrity complained after a reporter tried to photograph them on their holidays, Ant pretended to get angry with the camera crew and demanded that they stop filming. The cameras were briefly switched off while Dec tried to calm Ant down and when they came back on, Ant and Dec had switched jackets.

After the sketch, they announce what's coming up on the show and then Ant goes up into the audience and starts talking to some of them. He usually picks on two or three people and says something embarrassing about them and then picks on a third or fourth person and announces that they will be playing a game live in the studio. A lot of research goes into these games and they involve the person's family and friends.

Games Include:

  • Mr and Mesmerised
  • Court in the Act
  • Where's your Shed At?
  • STOP! That's Mine
  • Stars in their Lives
  • Shame That Tune
  • This Is Your Diary
  • Prankety Prank
  • Wedding Daze
  • How the Other Half Lives
  • Trouble & Strife
  • Imitation Street
  • I'm a Believer
  • The 'person's name' show
  • Ant & Dec Book club
  • Dude, where's my car?
  • Fame for a Laugh
  • Fame doesn't change him/her
  • Pa Humbug (only for the Christmas special)

Win the Ads

All series. The climax of the show, inviting a lucky member of the audience to "Don't just watch the adverts, win 'em". An ITV show is selected at random and 20 prizes are taken from the adverts shown within it. The contestant has 60 seconds (90 in the first series, recently sometimes 45 if the show was running short on time) to answer as many questions correctly.

After that, they have to decide to take the prizes and run or gamble it all on one final question. Get it right, and they win the lot. Get it wrong though and they lose everything and leave with just a roll of toilet paper.

In series 1, three contestants were chosen and whittled down to one in a short quiz. This was discontinued from series 2 and one was just selected at random.

In series 5, a new feature was added, which was to show them one of the prizes they picked to help the contestants whether to gamble or not, although this is sometimes omitted due to time restraints.

Grab the Ads

All series. A similar advert contest for viewers at home. This has followed two formats.

Format 1 was calling one member of the public and asking them to pick a number between 1 to 9. Whatever prize is behind that number is theirs. This was only used in Series 1.

The current format, used since series 2, has seen a different celebrity each week playing a different game which is used to generate a number between 1 to 9 and the prize behind it goes to the viewer chosen before that turn.

Games include:

  • Human Roulette
  • Human Bingo
  • Box-to-Box
  • Human Archery
  • Cupid
  • Celebrity Baby Bounce
  • Musical Toadstools
  • The King of Swingers
  • Lucky Sheep Dip
  • Clowning Around

Ant v Dec

Introduced in Series 5. Ant & Dec are given a certain task and they are given a week to learn a certain task and perform it live the next week. Kirsty Gallacher presents for this part of the show while David Goldstrom commentates on proceedings on certain weeks. The segment was regularly introduced with a dual-camera set-piece extremely reminiscent of Chris Evans's introduction to the viewers' games on Don't Forget Your Toothbrush.

Series 5

Show Date Challenge Winner Ant's Score Dec's Score
1 12 February 2005 Gladiators Ant 1 0
2 19 February 2005 The Tightrope Ant 2 0
3 26 February 2005 Dog Training Dec 2 1
4 5 March 2005 Escapology Dec 2 2
5 12 March 2005 Ring of Fire Draw 3 3
6 19 March 2005 Memory Test Ant 4 3
7 26 March 2005 Royal Wedding Song with G4 Dec 4 4
8 2 April 2005 Darts Ant 5 4
9 9 April 2005 Ventriloquism Dec 5 5
10 16 April 2005 Penalty shootout Dec 5 6
  • The best remembered challenge is the Ring of Fire, which was called off after Dec had a bad accident during his motorbike stunt jump, which resulted in a broken right thumb and a broken left elbow which meant his arm was in a sling for a few weeks afterwards, which became a source of much mirth on the show in subsequent weeks. Also, Ant's puppet of Dec in the ventriloquism challenge came with its own sling.
  • The winner of the challenge earned 1 point on the scoreboard (except for the week the accident occurred, where both Ant & Dec got a point since it was called off that week). In the end, Dec triumphed over Ant 6-5, winning the last challenge, the penalty shootout competition, to become overall winner. As a forfeit, Ant had to perform a bushtucker trial from I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! (another ITV show hosted by Ant & Dec), and sing a specially written 'loser's song', "I Am a Loser", to the tune of "We Are the Champions".

Series 6: The Rematch

Show Date Challenge Winner Ant's Score Dec's Score
1 16 September 2006 Abseiling Dec 0 1
2 23 September 2006 Sumo Wrestling Ant 1 1
3 30 September 2006 Lumberjack Dec 1 2
4 7 October 2006 Rowing Ant 2 2
5 14 October 2006 Cake Baking Dec 2 3
6 21 October 2006 Forming a Boyband Ant 3 3
6 21 October 2006 Mini Putt-off Dec 3 4
  • On the last show of this series, the contest was tied at three wins each. It came down to a mini-golf putt-off, which Dec won. After Dec putted the winning ball, Ant's forfeit was to be locked in the stocks and have paint thrown at him by all the show's celebrity guests. Dec celebrated his second win by singing the Tina Turner song "The Best", and wearing a mock king's outfit.

Series 7: This Time It's Personal

Show Date Challenge Winner Ant's Score Dec's Score
1 8 September 2007 Speed Skating Dec 0 1
2 15 September 2007 Spelling Bee Dec 0 2
3 22 September 2007 60m Sprint Hurdles Dec 0 3
4 29 September 2007 Weather Forecasting Ant 1 3
5 6 October 2007 Holding Breath Underwater Dec 1 4
6 13 October 2007 Queen Tribute Act Dec 1 5
  • Dec won the competition for the third year running, leading Ant 5-1. Ant's forfeit was to play the "Celebrity Baby Bounce" game but instead of numbers he popped balloons filled with gunge. After the song had finished the remaining balloons were revealed to count as a score - for each balloon he popped, one pair of his trainers would be saved from being let off into the sky by helium balloons.

Series 8: The Teams

Show Date Challenge Winner Ant's Score Dec's Score Eliminated
1 16 February 2008 Royal Navy Assault Course Dec 0 1 Wayne Sleep
2 23 February 2008 Dodgeball Ant 1 1 Sonia
3 1 March 2008 Bobsleighing w/ Ant, Bonnie & J

and Dec, Melinda & Lee

Ant 2 1 Paul Daniels
4 8 March 2008 Barber Shop Quartet Ant 3 1 Melinda Messenger
5 15 March 2008 Indoor Bowls Dec 3 2 Debbie McGee
6 22 March 2008 Tap Dancing Dec 3 3 Bonnie Langford

Series 8 saw Ant & Dec train a team of 5 different celebrities for a certain challenge. The losing team on the night would eliminate a member, chosen by the leaders, either Ant, or Dec.

Ant's team consisted of Paul Daniels' wife Debbie McGee, actress and singer Bonnie Langford, dancer Wayne Sleep, Jason "J" Brown from Five and Lee Ryan from Blue. Due to "personal reasons", Lee Ryan was unable to commit to the team, and was replaced with ex-Steps member Lee Latchford-Evans.

Dec's team members were magician Paul Daniels, 80's singer Sonia and The X Factor contestant Chico Slimani, TV presenter Melinda Messenger, and former footballer and reality TV regular Lee Sharpe. On 16 February, Sonia was unable to take part in the live challenge to due a leg injury, which lead to her elimination after Dec's team lost the challenge.

Dec won at Tap Dancing, to equal the scores at 3-3, after he was 3-1 down at one point. It went to a decider - a basketball shootout. With Lee Sharpe scoring for Dec's team, Dec won the series for the fourth time.

Series 9: The Teams 2

Show Date Challenge Winner Ant's Score Dec's Score Eliminated/Winners
1 14 February 2009 Truck Pull Ant 1 0 Sinitta
2 21 February 2009 Charity Single Dec 1 1 Lembit Opik
3 28 February 2009 Duke of Edinburgh Award Ant 2 1 Edwina Currie
4 7 March 2009 Remembering Donkeys Names Ant 3 1 Nicky Clarke
5 14 March 2009 Writing a Scene for a Soap Dec 3 2 Yvette Fielding
6 21 March 2009 Performing Songs from Musicals Dec 3 3 Liz McClarnon

The final main challenge 'Performing Songs from Musicals' was judged by a panel made up of singer Lily Allen, Dancing on Ice judge Jason Gardiner, and Dancing on Ice judge and Broadway star Ruthie Henshall. All three voted for Dec putting the scores up to 3-3.

At the end of Episode 6, the awards were given with Team Ant getting 'loser' medals and Team Dec getting 'winner' medals and the trophy. All of these were awarded by Brian Blessed who also featured in the 'Duke of Edinburgh' challenge.

This series, the team format is back, with ten new celebrities:

Team Ant:-

Team Dec:-

Series 10: TBA

Celebrity guest announcers

Introduced in Series 7. The whole of series 6 was Noddy Holder.

The celebrities have been, in chronological order:

Series 7 (2007)

Series 8 (2008)

Series 9 (2009)

Before first breaks, the guest announcers announce their own hobbies before being interrupted by Ant & Dec saying "NO, WHAT'S COMING UP ON THE SHOW!" that way they announce what is coming up on the show.

Escape from Takeaway Prison

Introduced in Series 9. Twenty celebrities are banged up the fictional Takeaway Prison and must embark on a mission to escape. Only one will do so whilst the others will be jailed for life. Philip Olivier won this on 21 March 2009. The prison mates included Bianca Gascoigne, The Cheeky Girls, Chesney Hawkes, Craig Phillips and Linda Barker.

The Mouse Trap

Introduced in Series 8. The Mouse Trap is a maze which one lucky viewer goes in and tries to retrieve as much cheese as possible before making their way out. There are ten compartments hanging from above certain areas and they must be pulled to release whatever is in it. Each cheese is worth £1000, and there are five cheeses to be collected in total. The viewer must collect as much cheese as they can and get out of the maze within the time limit of 1 minute or else they will be locked in by Tiddles the Takeaway Cat (played by TV's Mike Wilkinson) and their cheese will count for nothing.

For series 9, the rules are changed that there are now 14 compartments, 7 of which with cheeses worth various amounts of money, which if they all collected, add up to the top prize of £5,000.

Previous content

Ant & Dec Undercover

Series 2-5. Ant & Dec, wearing heavy disguises, ambush fellow celebrities (Simon Cowell being a famous and popular victim). When this item first began, they also fooled members of the public. At the end of series 5, Jonathan Wilkes made an undercover against Ant & Dec because of 'The Ploppies' undercover back in series 3.

Banged Up with Beadle

Series 1. This game only lasted one series.

Beat the Boys

Series 6-8. Two celebrities try to beat Ant & Dec's time around an assault course, using different vehicles every week. The vehicles have been specially modified to ensure that teamwork is vital in the game. Stuart Hall is the commentator.

Series 6 Leaderboard

Show Date Couple Ant & Dec's Car & Time Challenger's Car & Time Winner
1 16 September 2006 Phillip Schofield & Fern Britton Stretched Limo (3:23) Caravan (3:25) Ant & Dec
3 30 September 2006 Trinny Woodall & Susannah Constantine Girly Jeep (3:16) Boy Racer (3:15) Trinny & Susannah
4 7 October 2006 Ben Shephard & Penny Smith Ice-Cream Van (4:01) Camp-A-Van (3:59) Ben & Penny
5 14 October 2006 Harry Hill & Al Murray Wedding Car (6:18) Police Car (3:28) Harry & Al
6 21 October 2006 Wendi Peters & Jennie McAlpine Hippy Car (3:21) London Taxi Cab (4:25) Ant & Dec

The obstacles used in series 6:

  • Eammon Holmes Cones:
  • Grab the Lads:
  • Celebrity Skittles:
  • The Brad Pitt Stop:
  • Shooting Stars:
  • G4 See-Saw:
  • Beckham's Golden Balls:

Most noteworthy race

  • Show 5: Ant & Dec, when it was looking like a victory for them, lost the race to Harry & Al by 2 minutes and 49 seconds. The reason being that their car broke down towards the end of the race and they had to complete the rest of the course by foot.

Series 7 Leaderboard

Show Date Couple Ant & Dec's Car & Time Challenger's Car & Time Winner
1 8 September 2007 Tina O'Brien & Ryan Thomas Starsky & Hutch Stunt Car (3:52) Cagney & Lacey Police Cruiser (3:57) Ant & Dec
2 15 September 2007 Max Beesley & Jonathan Wilkes Safari Jeep (4:02) Ambulance (4:00) Max & Jonathan
3 22 September 2007 Alan Carr & Justin-Lee Collins Old People's Car (4:26) Catering Van (4:57) Ant & Dec
4 29 September 2007 Fearne Cotton & Holly Willoughby Army Jeep (6:38) Beach Buggy (6:18) Fearne & Holly
5 6 October 2007 Eamonn Holmes & Ruth Langsford Beach Car (7:14) New York Taxi Cab (9:14) Ant & Dec

The obstacles used in series 7 are:

  • All Star Splat: Each team is given three custard pies and must hit and knock down at maximum three of the six celebrity faces.
  • Hook a Duck: The passenger must hook a duck from the pond using a long rod.
  • Drawbridge: The team must get out of the car and lower a door on a small castle whilst being attacked by numerous weapons by the other team.
  • See-saw: The team must balance over the giant seesaw.
  • Domino Rally Alley: The team must reverse and park in between the dominos, without knocking them over.
  • Car vs. Beast: A drag race with a remote controlled robot displaying a famous face or animal.
  • Tony Blackburn's Wheel of Steel: The team must continue to sing the song that stops playing in tune whilst they rotate on a giant turntable.

Failure to complete any of the obstacles correctly (bar the Drawbridge) will incur a ten second penalty.

Most noteworthy race

  • Show 4: Ant & Dec completed the track in 6:38, after falling off the turntable at Tony Blackburn's Wheel of Steel and losing 2 minutes, allowing Fearne & Holly to win by 20 seconds despite receiving ten second penalties at every obstacle with the exception of Hook a Duck and the Drawbridge (which carries no penalty).

Series 8 Leaderboard (Extreme)

Show Date Couple Ant & Dec's Car & Time Challenger's Car & Time Winner
2 23 February 2008 David Dickinson & Lorne Lesley Disco 1 (4:16) Post Van (7:45) Ant & Dec
4 8 March 2008 Duncan James & Tara Palmer-Tomkinson Punked Mini (8:14) Pest remover van (6:30) Duncan & Tara
5 15 March 2008 Andrew Castle & Kate Garraway Goth Hearse (5.18) American Hotrod (6.14) Ant & Dec

Steps member Ian Watkins and actor Chris Parker feature in one of the obstacles.

The obstacles used in series 8 are:

  • Eammon Holmes Cones: The driver would be blindfolded and their partner had to direct them through the cones without knocking any over.
  • Drawbridge: The team must get out and lower a door on a castle. Whenever they turned the handles, items would be released from two boxes above.
  • Drive Thru: The one not driver receives a tray full of drinks without lids. The driver has to go over five speed-bumps and a seesaw while trying not to spill too much liquid. At the end they have to fill up the funnel with the remaining liquid. If they have enough to meet the line, they do not receive a ten second penalty.

Home Run

Series 1-3. Each week Ant & Dec would be annoyed that some people on Saturday Nights would turn off the TV, put their coats on and...GO OUT! Every week they, through some sort of technology work, would surprise members of the public in a location in the UK (e.g. a cinema or a bingo hall) and reward someone £5,000 if they ran back home. The person who gets to their door to find the five grand would then be forced to read an oath, on their television screen, promising they will never go out on Saturday Nights again. At one time, the home run involved Ant's sister, Sarah McPartlin.

Jiggy Bank

Series 6-7. A member of the public is surprised live on television, they then have to ride a moving robotic pig like a rodeo. The harder they ride the more cash they will get. The maximum win is £5,000. The remaining money that is not won is added as a bonus prize in Grab the Ads. As a joke, the announcer in the commentary box (or in series 6, a child voice mailing in from a mobile phone) will say "Oink Oink, You Lucky Pig!" when the prize with the money remaining is revealed.

Jim Didn't Fix It for Me

Series 1-3. A spoof of Jim'll Fix It, in which audience members who had written to Jimmy Savile in their youth, but never been lucky enough to fulfil their dreams, and having those dreams realised at last, 20+ years later.

Little Ant & Dec

Series 2-6. A pair of child "look-alikes", Little Ant (James Pallister) and Little Dec (Dylan McKenna-Redshaw), to whom Ant & 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 and bamboozle some surprisingly straight answers out of their victims. Victoria Beckham was asked what conceived meant and she told them it meant where her son got in her tummy. Such victims include Kevin Costner and Sarah Michelle Gellar. In one instance where they interviewed Ant and Dec themselves they used two even younger Ant & Dec look-alikes, "Little Little Ant & Dec" to introduce the segment because Little Ant and Dec 'couldn't be bothered', they even interviewed Ant & Dec's girlfriends (Lisa Armstrong (now wife of Ant's) & Dec's former girlfriend Clare Buckfield). Following the axing of this segment, the pair hosted Jiggy Bank for Series 6.

Make Ant Laugh

Series 1. Ant is a bit of a miserable git so they've scoured the country to find some funny acts who must try to make Ant laugh within sixty seconds to win a trophy.

Opportunity Knocks: Again

Series 2-4. Based on the Saturday night television programme Opportunity Knocks", enables members of the audience who previously starred on the expired programme, to act their performances again.

A memorable Opportunity Knocks: Again was on 14 October 2004, when sisters, Diane and Mandy Fanthorpe got more applause than Busted on a sawing trick.

Saturday Cash Takeaway

Series 3. Nine popular takeaways are taken at random and one is selected by a member of the studio audience. The takeaway, which is being delivered to someone at home, has £1,000 stuffed in it.

The person who receives the takeaway then answers a question from their front door and if they get it right, they win the money, along with their food.

Saturday Night Pub Olympics

Series 4. One pub is chosen each week to compete in the "Saturday Night Pub Olympics", they are split into two teams and have to face each other in three different events to decide the winning team. Dickie Davies was on hand to commentate on proceedings.

What's Next?

Series 2-4. An item where Ant & Dec are presented with a challenge, of which they have no prior knowledge, and which is often embarrassing. This feature was later modified for the boys to go head to head, known as 'Ant vs. Dec.' One infamous moment came when the curtain hiding the feature failed to raise, forcing an abrupt commercial break, leaving Ant and Dec to prepare for their challenge on air after it was revealed to them.

Transmissions

Original series

Series Start date End date Episodes
1
8 June 2002
13 July 2002
6
2
11 January 2003
22 March 2003
11
3
13 March 2004
17 April 2004
6
4
2 October 2004
6 November 2004
6
5
12 February 2005
16 April 2005
10
6
16 September 2006
21 October 2006
6
7
8 September 2007
13 October 2007
6
8
16 February 2008
22 March 2008
6
9
14 February 2009
21 March 2009
6
10
23 February 2013
TBC in 2013
TBA

Special

Date Entitle
24 December 2005
Xmas Special

Ratings

Episode viewing figures from the Broadcasters' Audience Research Board[4]

Series 1

Episode Date Total viewers
(millions)		 ITV weekly ranking
1 8 June 2002 5.51 18
2 15 June 2002 4.97 23
3 22 June 2002 4.84 26
4 29 June 2002 4.62 21
5 6 July 2002 4.96 20
6 13 July 2002 3.64 30

Series 2

Episode Date Total viewers
(millions)		 ITV weekly ranking
1 11 January 2003 7.51 17
2 18 January 2003 7.45 18
3 25 January 2003 7.69 16
4 1 February 2003 7.48 17
5 8 February 2003 7.73 15
6 15 February 2003 7.69 14
7 22 February 2003 8.21 13
8 1 March 2003 8.75 14
9 8 March 2003 9.01 15
10 15 March 2003 7.56 14
11 22 March 2003 7.89 15

Series 3

Episode Date Total viewers
(millions)		 ITV weekly ranking
1 13 March 2004 9.09 13
2 20 March 2004 7.08 18
3 27 March 2004 7.97 15
4 3 April 2004 7.80 14
5 10 April 2004 7.37 17
6 17 April 2004 7.86 15

Series 4

Episode Date Total viewers
(millions)		 ITV weekly ranking
1 2 October 2004 8.23 13
2 9 October 2004 8.01 16
3 16 October 2004 8.17 13
4 23 October 2004 8.60 13
5 30 October 2004 7.55 16
6 6 November 2004 7.27 16

Series 5

Episode Date Total viewers
(millions)		 ITV weekly ranking
1 12 February 2005 8.46 11
2 19 February 2005 7.83 14
3 26 February 2005 7.53 14
4 5 March 2005 7.46 17
5 12 March 2005 8.67 10
6 19 March 2005 8.49 14
7 26 March 2005 7.47 14
8 2 April 2005 6.23 18
9 9 April 2005 7.26 14
10 16 April 2005 7.37 14
Xmas special 24 December 2005 6.22 16

Series 6

Episode Date Total viewers
(millions)		 ITV weekly ranking
1 16 September 2006 7.58 7
2 23 September 2006 5.21 21
3 30 September 2006 7.37 11
4 7 October 2006 7.33 12
5 14 October 2006 7.64 11
6 21 October 2006 8.21 9

Series 7

Episode Date Total viewers
(millions)		 ITV weekly ranking
1 8 September 2007 6.59 10
2 15 September 2007 6.76 8
3 22 September 2007 7.16 8
4 29 September 2007 6.56 13
5 6 October 2007 4.84 18
6 13 October 2007 5.6 16

Series 8

Episode Date Total viewers
(millions)		 ITV weekly ranking
1 16 February 2008 6.41 15
2 23 February 2008 7.29 15
3 1 March 2008 7.29 15
4 8 March 2008 7.48 14
5 15 March 2008 7.76 10
6 22 March 2008 7.38 10

Series 9

Episode Date Total viewers
(millions)		 ITV weekly ranking
1 14 February 2009 7.74 12
2 21 February 2009 6.81 15
3 28 February 2009 6.23 16
4 7 March 2009 6.90 15
5 14 March 2009 5.59 16
6 21 March 2009 6.40 22

References

  1. ^ http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a349903/ant--dec-to-bring-back-saturday-night-takeaway-under-itv-deal.html
  2. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVrTBPDtBwM
  3. ^ http://www.audiencetickets.net/Takeaway.html
  4. ^ "BARB". BARB. 22 March 2009. Retrieved 13 January 2012.

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