STOP LYING TO US!!! - Ant & Dec Cancel Saturday Night Takeaway AGAIN FOR THE THIRD TIME After 22 Years

 The ITV kings give us and the ITV kings take it away.

48-year old Ant & Dec have upsetted and lied to their fans once again last THursday, May 18th when they revealed that the ITV1 Saturday night variety show staple Saturday Night Takeaway would be going on hiatus break again for the third time after 22 years and reaching the 20th landmark season in 2024 (continuing to be big fat liars as 2024 would be the 19th season and Season 4 is actually Season 3 episodes 7-12 in disguise as they did two batches of episodes in 2004 during the same year)

Ant & Decs Saturday Night Takeaway first launched on June 8, 2002 and has been the crown jewel of ITV's Saturday programming content slate ever since. The first show in history where viewers could win the channel's commercial breaks with its infectious slogan of "Don't just watch the adverts! WIN THEM!".

Among the Geordie duo's most iconic sketches featured on the show including, but not limited to, the quiz Grab/Win the Ads, Little Ant & Dec which featured primary school children dressed like the hosts, Undercover and I'm A Celebrity, GET OUT OF MY EAR where they would prank the world's biggest and best celebrities just for the hell of it, the End of the Show Show which Ant & Dec would join in the performance anyway despite the artists demanding them not to, and of course the unforgetable Olympics-esque tournament of Ant VS Dec, hosted first by Kirsty Gallagher, then by THe Pussycats Dolls girl group member Ashley Roberts and most recently, ITV legend Stephen Mulhern, who also hosts the Britain's Got Talent behind the scenes extras on ITV2.

In the show's last seven years, two new traditions were introduced in which each season would include a mystery crime-thriller sketch divided into five or six parts and the season finale being filmed international. Althought Ant & Dec still owe us that Disneyt World season finale #2 that was rejected three years ago.

This isn't the first time that the show was cancelled, put on hiatus or the Geordie hosts being big fat liars to their fans and faking the show's death. The show first went on hiatus after the eighth season in 2009-2013 and was also cancelled in the 2019 slate due to McPartlin recovering from a speeding ticket car crash accident that caused him to take the year off and have Dec host by himself.

Of course, despite the show going on hiatus for stupid reasons again for the third time around, this doesn't mean that the duo is gone from screens forever. Ant & Dec still have a pretty good future ahead of them, with the UK leg of Simon Cowell's Got Talent airing in April after the current season of SNT ends, I'm A Celebrity, GET ME OUT OF HERE!!!!, a Aussie-filmed game show which puts the biggest celebrities in the grave schemes of danger and their most recent hilarious gameshow scan Limitless Win where the typical game show money prize jackpot has no maximum values.

Ant & Dec first hit the airwaves in 1989 with their rubbish PJ & Duncan music career in the short-lived classic UK soap opera drama Byker Grove. They also had a short role of co-hosting the short-lived CITV Saturday morning variety show Gimme 5 with Jenny Powell. But it wasn't until 1998's SM:TV Live and CD:UK that put the Geordie lads firmly on the national stage and put these boys on the map.

SNT used to air before the original UK version of Who Wants to Be A Millionaire? hosted by Chris Tarrant and Jeremy Clarkson, but now airs before the Stars in Their Eyes reboot spinoff Starstruck hosted by Simon Cowell's The X Factor 2009 S8 runnerup Olly Murs.

The final season of A&D's SNT (for now) is set to air between Feruary-April 2024 and already fans are threating them to film at Walt Disney World again as they originally promised back in 2020 and threatening them that if they fail to go to Disney World for Disney's 100th Anniversary celebration, then they unfortunately will never be watching these guys ever again.