Ant & Dec see off The Voice in Saturday night ratings war

 
p57 Television Programme: Red Or Black with Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly. AN ITV STUDIOS AND SYCO TV PRODUCTION FOR ITV1 PLEASE NOTE - THIS IMAGE IS FROM SERIES 1 RED OR BLACK Picture Shows: ANT & DEC Picture Caption: Award winning hosts Ant and Dec are back with a brand new series of Red or Black? X Factor winners Little Mix join award winning hosts Ant & Dec on the brand new series of Red or Black? the high octane, super sized game show. Tonight, 8 contestants must hold their nerve over a series of rounds and decide who will succeed in the amazing stunts and nerve wracking challenges that play out in front of them. Whatever the game the answer will always be either red or black? The contestants must survive all the way to the end if they want to earn the right to play for the big money prize. Chart toppers, Little Mix, unveil an exciting performance of their new single 'Wings'. The routine, specially created for the show, will see the contestants asked a crucial question centered around the performance, .but will it be Red or Black? Other big named stars taking part in the show include, premier league football stars Bobby Zamora (QPR) and Darren Bent (Aston Villa) who go head to head in Strike Out. The pressure is on as the pair race to knock out seven targets suspended on a swinging pendulum. Dancing with the Stars, Derek Hough and Peta Murgatroyd are joined by award winning classical guitarist Milos with an exclusively choreographed performance of the Argentine tango. The contestants will have to watch the performance carefully as they will be asked a question based on what they have seen. Get it right and they could hotfoot it into the next round, get it wrong and they will be crashing out of the competition. Source: Digital Photographer: DAVID VENNI Picture Publicist: Shane Chapman on shane.chapman@itv.com / 020 715 73043 Copyright: ITV STUDIOS / SYCO TV Photographer: David Venni Photography Ltd Copyright: ITV
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2 April 2013
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Ant & Dec are top for TV viewers in the Saturday night ratings war as well as number one in the charts, it emerged today.

The Geordie pair's Saturday Night Takeaway saw off The Voice which returned for a second series at the weekend.

Ant & Dec's show was seen by an average audience of 7.2 million, making it the highest-rating show of the night, according to ITV1.

Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly were joined by guests Lewis Hamilton, Simon Cowell and Michael Buble.

The Geordie hosts hit the number one spot yesterday with Let's Get Ready to Rhumble, a single originally released in 1994 which they performed on last week's show.

The BBC1 talent contest The Voice, which sees contestants take part in blind auditions so that coaches Jessie J, Tom Jones, Will.i.am and Danny O'Donoghue can judge them on their voice alone, had an average of 6.2 million viewers, an audience share of 26.9 per cent.,

Both shows claimed to have achieved a peak audience of 8.2 million during transmission.

A BBC spokeswoman said: "It's a great start to the new series of The Voice UK with the highest peak audience of the night, with over eight million viewers which grew throughout the show."

Contestants taking part in the first show of the new series of The Voice included former chart star Kavana, real name Anthony Kavanagh, and visually-impaired singer Andrea Begley.

Coaches only turn their chairs around to see the face behind the voice if they like what they hear, with the singers then given the choice of who they want to be their mentor if more than one has expressed interest.

A second series of Saturday Night Takeaway has been commissioned for 2014, ITV1 announced last week.

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