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"Ant and Dec&amp;#039;s Saturday Night Takeaway has been renewed by ITV.  The network confirmed that the popular series will return next year via itsTwitter account, posting: &amp;quot;ITV today announces the recommission of Ant &amp;amp; Dec&amp;#039;s Saturday Night Takeaway for 2014.&amp;quot;  The show has averaged 7.1 million viewers since its return in February, making it the most watched series since 2005. Ant McPartlin said: &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;ve been overwhelmed by the positive reaction to this series, especially after four years off air.&amp;quot; Declan Donnelly added: &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;ve absolutely loved every minute of the shows this year and can&amp;#039;t wait to get working on another series for next year.&amp;quot; ITV&amp;#039;s director of entertainment and comedy Elaine Bedell said: &amp;quot;Takeaway has burst back into the schedule this year with some brilliant, original and inventive pieces.    &amp;quot;It is a great tribute to Ant and Dec, and to the team, that it feels so fresh - and its success has shown there is still very much an enduring audience appetite for high quality, prime time entertainment on Saturday nights.&amp;quot; Ant &amp;amp; Dec are currently on course to get their first number one single after performing &amp;#039;Let&amp;#039;s Get Ready to Rhumble&amp;#039; on Saturday Night Takeaway and plan to donate the money made from it to charity. McPartlin said of the song: &amp;quot;[When we] recorded it, we never really thought much about it, it got to number nine. That&amp;#039;s the one song everybody still to this day is on about, it kinda changed everything for us. &amp;quot;I never thought we&amp;#039;d be performing it 19 years later on a Saturday night TV show.&amp;quot; Watch the performance below:       "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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