Bake Off stars Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins are the latest hosts to be revealed for ITV’s new The Nightly Show
The pair join a handful of telly giants to host the ambitious new series
THEY quit the Great British Bake Off when it left the BBC for Channel 4, and now Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins have landed their first post-soggy bottom gig on ITV.
The duo will be among the first presenters to host a new late-night entertainment chat-show, The Nightly Show, which is set to start next month, the Mirror has revealed.
The series is set to run weeknights for eight weeks and will be shunting the News at 10, to 10.30pm, and promises to have big-name stars presenting.
Other telly favourites booked to be fronting it include David Walliams – who’s kicking off the first week, comedian John Bishop, sweary chef Gordon Ramsey, and TV presenter-turned-fitness-queen Davina McCall.
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ITV bosses say the half-hour show will be a “Saturday Night Takeaway meets James Cordon’s Late, Late Show”, and producers are currently dreaming up regular games and stunts in an aim to go viral and attract younger audiences in a similar vein to Brit comic James’s Carpool Karaoke.
ITV’s comedy entertainment boss Peter Davey says: “We’re really excited to be launching this bold new show.”
If trial run of 40 episodes is a success bosses are already hoping to stretch out the run, although will make sure that the News at 10 will not suffer as a result.