This Morning: Cat Deeley reveals Ant and Dec are planning to bring back 90s Saturday morning TV show

Cat Deeley may have accidentally let slip that Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly could be planning to bring back a popular kids TV show. The ITV presenter, 48, and co-host Ben Shephard were speaking to Stephen Mulhern on the This Morning sofa on Tuesday (January 28).

The Deal or no Deal host gushed over his time working on children’s TV as a video clip early on in his career played on screen. Back in the nineties Cat, Stephen, Ant and Dec worked together on the beloved Saturday morning TV show SM:TV Live. The programme ran from 1998 to 2003.

SM:TV Live was a British children's television show on ITV that featured competitions, cartoons, and live music. The show was known for its celebrity guests and sketches, including Chums and Wonky Donkey.

Speaking to her former SM:TV co-host Cat Deeley said: “Actually, Ant and Dec have been talking about maybe bringing back a Saturday morning kids' show. Be great if they did.”

Fans have been desperate for a reboot of the show ever since a one-off 20th-anniversary special aired in 2020. TV presenters Ant and Dec reunited with Cat to reminisce about their time on the show.

Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard took over the This Morning presenting role after former host Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield left the ITV daytime show in 2023.

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