Always thought Ant v Dec could be spun off into it's own show, especially when they had it as a team format with other celebs.
Well, my idea was that when Takeaway was being "rested" and they did the other shows like Push The Button, it would have seemed a bit embarrassing to bring Takeaway back as it would have looked a bit like an admission of defeat. It's like Graham Norton, when he joined the Beeb he did various other shows like The Bigger Picture which didn't really work, and eventually they just dusted off the old So Graham Norton concept, but they called it The Graham Norton Show to avoid direct comparisons.
And similarly they could have recycled the Takeaway format but called it The Ant and Dec Show or something. But I like the idea of Ant vs Dec as a series, you can do all the things you do on Takeaway with the sketches and the comic crosstalk and the games and the audience participation, but you can theme it all around the idea of the pair of them competing.
One thing notable about the "part 1" girl was that it was a "hit" based largely upon negative things that somebody has done. Takeaway has normally focussed on people who need rewarding for some reason in contrast to House Party (for once!) which was constantly pulling people out of the audience to punish them for misdemeanors. I didn't think it was that bad, but they shot themselves in the foot by clearly making her suspicious before it started. And as others have said, turning up at 7pm on a Saturday night it'd be hard not to.
This reminds me a bit of when they did a TV show based on Simon Mayo's Confessions, heavens, 25 years ago now, and in the first series there were lots of complaints that they were rewarding people for doing horrible things, because like here the "best" confessor would win prizes. So they toned that down quite a bit for subsequent series. It's not the first time the opening game on Takeaway has been based on someone's embarrassing secrets, but I think it might have fallen flatter than usual here because she didn't seem to be especially remorseful, and also they usually counter that by featuring some nice things they've done as well, so they seem a bit more deserving.
