The chat present host takes the legendary gameshow for a spin in 2024.
ITV is dusting off the gameshow Wheel of Fortune for an additional spin. The enduring hangman-style present, an imported American format, first launched on the community in 1988 and ran till 2001.
Throughout fourteen seasons, the UK model burned by numerous frontmen together with Nicky Campbell, John Leslie and Bradley Walsh. Now, Graham Norton has signed as much as be grasp of the massive wheel.
Wheel of Fortune is commissioned for eight hour-long episodes, together with two celeb specials, and guarantees the contestants the possibility to win a life altering money prize.
Graham Norton stated:
“I’m past excited to be bringing such an iconic American present to a brand new British viewers. My first ever TV job was a sport present on ITV so this seems like coming full circle. You would possibly even name it a wheel!”
It will likely be attention-grabbing to see if the present retains the normal, fairly dated, format of a feminine co-host to show the letters. With fashionable expertise and Norton’s potential to banter, we’d have thought that function could be redundant now.
Wheel of Fortune is a Whisper North manufacturing for ITV1 and ITVX and can air in 2024. The Govt Producers for Whisper North are Kerri Reid and Tom McLennan.
The unique U.S. present is produced by Sony Footage Tv Studios, a Sony Footage Leisure Firm, which is distributed by Paramount International Content material Distribution together with the format rights.