More details have been revealed about Dave's new panel show Hypothetical, fronted by James Acaster and Josh Widdicombe.

The series will start on Dave on February 6 at 10pm. Episode one will feature guests Liza Tarbuck, Rob Beckett, Tom Allen and Jessica Knappett.

In the show two teams of comedians will be tested on their ability to deal with a series of ridiculous scenarios such as "how someone would cope living in a motorway services for a year or how to take a selfie with Nicolas Cage within 48 hours or you die."

Widdicombe will pose the questions while Acaster will enforce the rules and score the guests’ attempts at dealing with them. 

Widdicombe says: “I have spent the last decade of my life annoying other comics with these questions in cars and dressing rooms so I am delighted Dave have allowed me to claim that I was in fact researching a show and not just wasting everyone’s time. More to the point I cannot wait to work alongside the man who makes me laugh more than anyone else in comedy. I just hope this goes better than our [one star] 2009 Edinburgh show.”

Although it has not been officially unveiled Chortle has announced the line-up for the series as follows:

Episode one: Rob Beckett, Jessica Knappett, Liza Tarbuck and Tom Allen

Episode two:  Romesh Ranganathan, Rachel Parris, Jon Richardson, Rose Matafeo

Episode three: Sara Pascoe, Lou Sanders, Nish Kumar, Ed Gamble

Episode four: Romesh Ranganathan, Rosie Jones, Kerry Godliman and Matt Forde

Episode five: Dara O Briain, Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Suzi Ruffell, Nish Kumar

Episode six: Roisin Conaty, Phil Wang, Victoria Coren-Mitchell and Darren Harriott

Episode seven:  Katherine Ryan, John Robins, Ivo Graham, Cariad Lloyd

Episode eight: David O'Doherty, Guz Khan, Sara Pascoe, Cariad Lloyd