Three Saturday night family favourites - Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel, Blankety Blank and The Weakest Link will all be returning to BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
Each series guarantees viewers lots of play along fun for the whole family to enjoy and will be bursting at the seams with a host of the nation’s favourite celebrity contestants taking part as they test themselves and provide plenty of laughs too in brand new episodes of all three shows.
Kalpna Patel-Knight, Head of Entertainment at the BBC says: “In Michael, Bradley and Romesh we have three funny titans of Saturday evening TV back on our screens with these fabulous formats from Hungry McBear, Thames and BBC Studios ensuring that both BBC One and BBC iPlayer remain as an undisputed entertainment destination for viewers all across the UK in 2023.”
Full broadcast details for all three series will be confirmed in due course.
Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel
Michael McIntyre’s smash-hit game show The Wheel (10 x 60’) will return and is guaranteed to be packed full of edge-of-the seat jeopardy, hilarious laughs, huge stars and Michael’s colossal spinning Wheel. Can the contestants, guided by a brand new batch of celebrity experts, answer their way to a fortune?
Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel is a Hungry McBear Media Production for BBC One and BBC iPlayer and was commissioned by Kalpna Patel-Knight, Head of Entertainment at the BBC. The Executive Producers for Hungry McBear Media are Dan Baldwin and Tom Blakeson and the Commissioning Editor for the BBC is Clodagh O’Donoghue.
Produced by Thames, a Fremantle label, Blankety Blank (10 x 35’), will once again be hosted by the incomparable Bradley Walsh, who will guide a panel of celebrities and contestants over multiple rounds, as they compete to win a range of…unique prizes!
Whilst viewers can prepare to meet some new celebrity faces, they can also look forward to once more hearing the signature theme tune, seeing the iconic Blankety cheque book and pen, and as always expect a lot of laughs for the whole family.
Blankety Blank is a Thames (part of Fremantle) Production for BBC One and BBC iPlayer was commissioned by Kalpna Patel-Knight, Head of Entertainment at the BBC. The Executive Producer for Thames is Christopher Barbour and the Commissioning Editor for the BBC is Clodagh O'Donoghue.
The Weakest Link
The Weakest Link, made by BBC Studios Entertainment (12 x 60’), will be back with Romesh Ranganathan at the helm in TV’s favourite back-stabbing big money game show. Another all-star line-up of celebrity contestants will attempt to win up to £50,000 for charity by answering general knowledge questions before only two remain and play head to head to determine the winner.
The Weakest Link is a BBC Studios Entertainment production for BBC One and BBC iPlayer and was commissioned by Kalpna Patel-Knight, Head of Entertainment at the BBC. The Executive Producers for BBC Studios are Pete Ogden and Gareth Edwards and the Commissioning Editor for the BBC is Neil McCallum.
