IT'S STILL GOTTA RHYME!!!!!!!! - SMTV Live Reboot Title & Release Date REVEALED

 If you watched CITV and ITV1 between 1998-2006 you may remember waking up between 9:25AM-12:30PM to watch two significent programs SM:TV Live and CD:UK hosted by three gorgeous CHUMS, Ant & Dec Anthony McPartlin, Decan Donnelly and the "Burrrrrrmingham dog" known as Catherine "Cat Noddy Slade" Deely.

A lot has changed since the series ended 17 years ago on the final saturday of 2003. Fear not. Like all other franchises, we currently live in a timeline where shows are brought back for reboots aka revivals, some with a new cast and most of them with surprise return involvements from the OGs who made the brands so special in the first place SMTV Live however is no exception.

Ant, Dec and Cat are slated to reunite and revive their iconic saturday morning program in a new version of the show titled The Story of SMTV Live in which will give a documentary view of how the iconic property was born, how Ant, Dec and Cat first put their iconic postbag dances and rhyming ragequits together and the backstory of how one of the greatest franchises of children's television was born. The exclusive reboot is scheduled to air on ITV1 in the UK and Ireland for the Christmas holiday season in between late November-December 2020.

Unfortunately, the documentary revival of the series will only focus on the Ant, Dec and Cat years between 1998-2002, this means that the late 2001-2003 versions hosted by Brian Dowling, Tess Daly, Hollyoaks star James Redmond, STEPS band members Ian H. Watkins and Claire Richards, Shavaughn Rouakere, Deman Clarke and CITV veteran Stephen Mulhern will not be included.

In the past decade, Ant and Dec have been giving everything they've got to bring back their iconic children's program. The most notable ones being a previous reunion with Cat at Walt Disney World in Florida during the final episode of Saturday Night Takeaway Season 14 in April 2017, as well as a more inappropiate approach during the duo's appeaance on Celebrity Juice six years prior to that. A 20th anniversary episode in 2019 was also plannned but was ultimately scrapped due to it being just an idea.

The SMTV Live program originally ran between 29th August 1998 and 27th December 2003 lasting five years, six seasons and 279 episodes. The series won 2 BAFTAs, a British comedy award and the Peoples Choice award. The music chart program CDUK which followed each SMTV Live episode afterwards at 11:30-12:30 (shorten to 11-11:30AM due to coverage of sports or grand prix at times) would go on to continue three years after SMTV ended and wrapped up its weekly Saturday Chart Number Ones on April FOols Day 2006.

Look out for the new SMTV Live this Christmas on ITV1 UK