'Ant and Dec's Limitless Win': When is it on TV? How does it work? All you need to know

Kings of primetime entertainment Ant and Dec are launching a huge new show on ITV - Ant and Dec's Limitless Win.

It's their first new series in over a decade and comes with the excitement of boasting TV's first ever never-ending cash prize.

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Here's all you need to know about the show, including when it's on TV and how it works.

When is Ant and Dec's Limitless Win on TV?

The new series which runs for five episodes begins on ITV on Saturday, 8 January at 8.30pm.

How do you play Limitless Win?

As the title suggests, the aim of Limitless Win is to bag as much money as possible without crashing out of the competition.

Pairs of contestants have to answer a series of general knowledge questions to climb the endless cash ladder in the style of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, and just like in that quiz, if they choose to try another question but get the answer wrong, they risk losing all of their winnings.

But here, there's no upper limit to the jackpot - meaning those with a wide general knowledge and nerves of steel could potentially win the biggest prize ever in TV gameshow history.

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Ant told PA news agency: "It’s the world’s first limitless jackpot. That’s the selling point for us, and that’s what hooked us in, is the fact there’s no top prize, and if you played this game right, you could win millions upon millions of pounds."

He added: "We did worry that we were going to bankrupt ITV."

Dec told Digital Spy: "When you turn the light off at night there's that little thing that goes off in your head that goes, 'What if someone just keeps winning – what are you going to do?' I don't know what would happen.

"We'd have to cancel Tipping Point, The Chase. Take all their prize money, put it in a pot."

The pair also admitted that while trying out their new gameshow, they had got up to £1.2 million prize money - then lost the lot.

Which other gameshows have Ant and Dec hosted?

Of course, this isn't Ant and Dec's first foray into gameshow hosting.

As well as including gameshow elements in Saturday Night Takeaway and I'm A Celebrity, they have fronted a number of other competitions over the years.

Their first gameshow was Friends Like These in 1999, and in 2005 they fronted Ant & Dec's Gameshow Marathon which recreated TV quizzes of years gone by.

In 2006 they presented PokerFace, Wanna Bet? in 2008, Ant & Dec's Push the Button in 2010, and most recently Red or Black? in 2011, but so far none of their gameshows has run for more than a couple of series at most.

Ant and Dec's Limitless Win begins on ITV on Saturday, 8 January at 8.30pm.

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