Alan Carr to present new show I Don't Like Mondays
- Alan Carr is to present I Don't Like Mondays, a new entertainment show on Channel 4
- The hour-long episodes, which are likely to air on Sunday nights, see contestants trying to win a year's salary
- It is one of several shows Channel 4 is lining up for Carr, describing him as one of their "most important pieces of talent"
Alan Carr is to present I Don't Like Mondays, a new entertainment show on Channel 4.
The channel explains: "Imagine winning a year's salary on TV, resigning from your job on air and spending the next 12 months doing whatever you wanted. I Don't Like Mondays will see Alan Carr give one lucky member of the audience the chance not to have to go to work for a whole year via a series of big scale studio games and challenges.
"The studio audience, made up of people from across the UK with a range of different salaries, will arrive armed with resignation letters and at the end of the show, one of them will resign there and then, walking away with a year's salary."
The show has been created by producer Chris Fouracre and will be produced by Alaska TV and Magnum Media. He says: "We've all had that dread of the alarm clock going off on Monday morning, signalling the start of another working week. Hopefully I Don't Like Mondays will be a televisual antidote to that universal feeling and Alan is the perfect man to deliver it."
Broadcast reports that Channel 4 has ordered six hour-long episodes of the format, which is described as a game show similar to the 1990s hit Don't Forget Your Toothbrush.
The show was commissioned by Channel 4's entertainment executive Ed Havard, who told Broadcast the show has "crazy energy". The trade magazine suggests the programme is likely to air on Sunday nights.
The application form to appear as a contestant on the programme is available via SRO Audiences
This show is one of a number of hosting jobs being lined up for Carr now that his Chatty Man format has finished. As reported earlier in June, the comedian will also front a pilot episode of a new version of The Price Is Right for Channel 4, and it was also revealed today he is also being teamed up with Harry Hill for new show The Remote Controller.
Describing Carr as one of Channel 4's "most important pieces of talent", Havard says: "I've been explicit about the fact that I want to develop more ideas for him across a range of areas."
I Don't Like Mondays will be broadcast on Channel 4 later in the year.