Jack Whitehall making Sky travelogue with Jamie Redknapp
- Production is underway on Got Got Need featuring Jamie Redknapp and Harry Redknapp
- Three episodes of the football-based show are being filmed ahead of the World Cup in Qatar
- Got Got Need is being made by Jack Whitehall's Jackpot Productions
Jack Whitehall is making a comedy travelogue for Sky with ex-footballer Jamie Redknapp and his father, former manager and player Harry Redknapp, British Comedy Guide can exclusively reveal.
Ahead of the World Cup in Qatar in November, three hour-long episodes of Got Got Need have been ordered, made by Jackpot Productions, Whitehall's company. The comic makes a cameo appearance in the series and is executive producing.
The series' title is a nod to football sticker collecting, suggesting the Redknapps will be seeking out players to interview as they travel internationally.
Former Liverpool, Spurs and England midfielder Redknapp remains a team captain on A League Of Their Own on Sky Max, while Whitehall, who joined Series 5 of the panel show in 2012 and left five years later after Series 12, has nevertheless returned for some of the show's Road Trip episodes, most recently last year's trip from Loch Ness to London.
Whitehall previously made five series of Travels With My Father for Netflix, in which he and former showbusiness agent Michael, toured Asia, Europe, North America and Australasia, with a final series around the UK last year.
They are reuniting with Whitehall's mother next month for a series of live dates around England in Jack Whitehall with Hilary & Michael: How To Survive Family Holidays.
Alongside a flourishing career playing posh Englishmen in Hollywood, which this year will see him star opposite Shailene Woodley (Big Little Lies) in the sci-fi comedy Robots, written by Borat scribe Anthony Hines, and the rom-com Silent Retreat from The Lego Movie 2's Matthew Fogel, with Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Haysbert (24) and Lorraine Toussaint (Orange Is The New Black), Whitehall is dipping his toe into a career as an agony uncle.
The comic released a YouTube video yesterday in which he addressed his fans' problems: