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'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is the collective professional name for the entertainment act comprised by '''Declan Donnelly''' and '''Anthony McPartlin'''. Throughout the [[2000s]] they had a highly-rated Saturday-night [[ITV]] show, called ''[[wikipedia:Saturday Night Takeaway|Saturday Night Takeaway]]'' which was the initial competition for the [[BBC Wales]] version of ''[[Doctor Who]]''. An early sign of the strength of the revitalised ''Doctor Who'' was the fact that it trounced Ant & Dec in the ratings, breaking the three-year hold that Ant & Dec had on Saturday night audiences.
'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is the collective professional name for the entertainment act of '''Declan Donnelly''' and '''Anthony McPartlin'''. Throughout the [[2000s]] they had a highly-rated Saturday-night [[ITV]] show, called ''[[wikipedia:Saturday Night Takeaway|Saturday Night Takeaway]]''. It the initial competition for the [[BBC Wales]] version of ''[[Doctor Who]]''. An early sign of the strength of the revitalised ''Doctor Who'' was that it trounced Ant & Dec in the ratings, breaking the three-year hold that they had on Saturday night audiences.


Years later, they were involved in the ''[[National Television Awards Sketch 2011]]''.
Years later, they were involved in the ''[[National Television Awards Sketch 2011]]''.


== NTA sketch ==
== NTA sketch ==
In the sketch, Ant & Dec knew the [[Eleventh Doctor]]. Ant and Dec had been bound in invisible space handcuffs and needed the Doctor to release them. [[Dermot O'Leary]] had to inform them that the Doctor was a little too busy to free them.
In the sketch, Ant & Dec knew the [[Eleventh Doctor]]. Ant and Dec had been bound in invisible space handcuffs and needed the Doctor to release them. [[Dermot O'Leary]] told them that the Doctor was a little too busy to free them.


Like other celebrities in the tongue-in-cheek sketch, it's difficult to say that Ant & Dec are actually a part of the [[DWU]]. However, the precise nature of their appearance — and the fact that the Doctor won't free them — can be read as a metaphor for for the fact that '''Doctor Who'' had effectively "shackled" Ant & Dec by displacing them from the top of the Saturday night ratings heap.
Like other celebrities in the tongue-in-cheek sketch, it's difficult to say that Ant & Dec are actually a part of the [[DWU]]. However, the precise nature of their appearance — and the fact that the Doctor won't free them — can be read as a metaphor for for the fact that '''Doctor Who'' had effectively "shackled" Ant & Dec by displacing them from the top of the Saturday night ratings heap.
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Revision as of 00:20, 28 November 2011

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Ant & Dec is the collective professional name for the entertainment act of Declan Donnelly and Anthony McPartlin. Throughout the 2000s they had a highly-rated Saturday-night ITV show, called Saturday Night Takeaway. It the initial competition for the BBC Wales version of Doctor Who. An early sign of the strength of the revitalised Doctor Who was that it trounced Ant & Dec in the ratings, breaking the three-year hold that they had on Saturday night audiences.

Years later, they were involved in the National Television Awards Sketch 2011.

NTA sketch

In the sketch, Ant & Dec knew the Eleventh Doctor. Ant and Dec had been bound in invisible space handcuffs and needed the Doctor to release them. Dermot O'Leary told them that the Doctor was a little too busy to free them.

Like other celebrities in the tongue-in-cheek sketch, it's difficult to say that Ant & Dec are actually a part of the DWU. However, the precise nature of their appearance — and the fact that the Doctor won't free them — can be read as a metaphor for for the fact that 'Doctor Who had effectively "shackled" Ant & Dec by displacing them from the top of the Saturday night ratings heap.

Ant & Dec