A HIT BBC show hosted by Alan Carr is returning - amid rumours of ITV wanting to 'poach' the comic star. Game show Picture Slam launched last year on BBC One and it will be back for an extended second series from September 28. Three teams of two are presented with a board full of images they need to correctly identify against the clock.
If they successfully clear a full board with correct answers for a ‘Picture Slam’, they’ll receive a cash bonus. However, only the last team standing takes home any of their banked cash. Should they find all required pictures, they leave with the jackpot.
It comes amid reports that ITV bosses are looking to poach Alan and co-star Amanda Holden. They believe the pals can replicate the success of Beeb travel series Amanda & Alan's Italian Job , which recently filmed its third series. Viewers have seen the popular duo help renovate properties around the Med.
A TV insider said: “You’re talking about a potential 21st-century version of Wish You Were Here...
?. “Which is ironic because Alan has joked that Amanda — who’s often pictured holidaying in a luxurious foreign resort — is a modern-day Judith Chalmers. “But in recent years many of her journeys abroad have been with Alan by her side, and their friendship has grown deeper while making the three series of the Mediterranean travel shows.
“The duo are even on holiday together now in Greece and the most recent video of them messing around in the Med has been watched eight m.