Ant and Dec reveal when the SM:TV reunion is set to take place
We can't wait!
Last updated 15th May 2017
Earlier this year Ant and Dec confirmed they would be up for an SM:TV reunion with former co-presenter Cat Deeley and now they have revealed when.
The duo picked up an award for Best Entertainment Programme at the BAFTAs last night and spoke about reuniting with Cat next year to celebrate the show's 20th anniversary.
"We've had discussions about it, and it looks like it's gonna go ahead – not this September, but next September," Dec told the gathered press.
"Next August/September," Ant added. "We can't have the same studios unfortunately but we're getting the team back together and we're gonna have a bit of fun!"
The pair also said the show would definitely be on a Saturday morning, hopefully at 9.25am which they joked would be their earliest wake-up call in ages!
Ant and Dec teased a reunion back in February and then confirmed Cat was on board during their final episode of Saturday Night Takeaway last month. The pair presented the episode live from Walt Disney World in Florida and Cat appeared as Maskface in their sketch called The Missing Crown Jewels.
SM:TV originally started broadcasting on the 29th August 1998 and continued to broadcast on Saturday mornings. For the majority of its time on air it featured Ant and Dec who were fresh out of Byker Grove, along with Cat Deeley, who was a model at the time. The show quickly became ITV's most successful kids TV show since Tiswas.
Its popularity was mainly down to the celebrity guests and featured sketches including Chums, a parody of Friends and Eminemmerdale a parody of Eminem and Emmerdale.
As well as appearing on the show the celebrity guests would get involved with sketches such as Britney Spears to a romantic reading with Dec below.
Ant and Dec left the show in 2001 with an emotional episode of Chums, which saw Dec get 'married' to Cat, with Mariah Carey as a bridesmaid and Denise Van Outen appear at an awkward time.
SM:TV ended in 2003 without any of the original presenters after Cat left in 2002 to present Fame Academy.