Ant and Dec sign up for three more years of exclusive ITV deal

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Ant and Dec have signed a new deal with ITV that will take them past their 20-year anniversary with the network

Britain's favourite TV duo Ant and Dec have confirmed they'll be back to present more I'm a Celebrity, Britain's Got Talent and Saturday Night Takeaway in a new three-year ITV deal.

It means they'll appear exclusively on the channel until at least the end of 2019.

Ant and Dec said: “We are absolutely delighted to be extending our relationship with ITV, to continue on the three shows we love as well as exploring further opportunities both in front of and behind the camera. This deal will take us past the 20-year mark with ITV and we couldn't be happier.”

I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! returned to ITV on Sunday with strong overnight TV ratings of 10.7 million and an 11.7 million peak, the show's highest audience since the 2013 final.

The Geordie duo joined ITV in 1998, presenting the Saturday morning shows SM:tv LIVE and CD:UK and they've won numerous awards including a record breaking 30 National Television Awards (including Most Popular Entertainment Presenters for 15 consecutive years), 12 BAFTA Television Awards and eight Royal Television Society Awards.

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Patrick McLennan
Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.