Irish Daily Mail

Didn’t they do well? Mel and Sue land TV classic

- Irish Daily Mail Reporter

FORMER Bake Off presenters Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins are to reheat a TV classic.

They will reunite for the first time since they left the gentle bakery show last year to front a remake of old Saturday evening family favourite The Generation Game.

The game show, featuring couples taking on a variety of tasks, first appeared in 1971 with Bruce Forsyth as presenter. He was replaced by Larry Grayson but returned for a second spell in the early 1990s. Jim Davidson took over in 1995 and the series ran until 2002.

The new incarnatio­n, due to air on BBC1, will include many features familiar to fans of previous series as pairs of contestant­s from different generation­s of families take on tasks in the hope of securing a chance at winning prizes from the show’s famous conveyor belt.

In a statement, Ms Giedroyc and Ms Perkins said: ‘It’s a cuddly toy, it’s a toaster, it’s a circu- lar power saw, no it’s Mel and Sue doing The Generation Game! We can’t believe it, we are so excited!’

The pair have pursued solo projects since quitting Bake Off in the wake of its move to broadcaste­r Channel 4.

Ms Giedroyc has recently been seen hosting BBC singing contest Pitch Battle, while Ms Perkins fronted Sky 1 game show The Big Spell.

It has yet to be announced when the new Generation Game will be shown.

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TV duo: Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins

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