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Saturday Night Takeaway smashes ratings record after airing without audience

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Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway has scored its highest viewer ratings, after airing without a live audience for the first time in 18 years.

The March 21 episode, which took place in an empty studio due to the Covid-19 outbreak, was watched by an average of 9.5 million viewers in the UK.

Figures show that the ITV programme, which first aired in 2002, had a 45% share of the audience. The broadcaster said the show’s audience peak of 11.1 million was the highest on any channel since the fireworks on BBC One on New Year’s Eve 2019.

Saturday’s programme saw hosts Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly greeted by near silence as they arrived for the show, running down the aisle stairs and high-fiving the air above the empty seats.

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