Channel 5 is launching Celebrity Puzzling which pits famous faces against each other for a high stakes battle of logic and wordplay.
We take a look at what to expect.
He said: “It’s amazing to do a quiz that’s so simple and yet feels so fresh in every way.
The journalist and presenter is best-known for his BBC Radio 2 weekly lunchtime show.
He has previously presented Newsnight, The Politics Show and Panorama.
Team Captain Carol Vorderman (Photo: Joss Barratt/Channel 5)Who are the team captains?
Vorderman, 64, is no stranger to quiz shows having started her career on the Channel 4 game show Countdown.
Sally Lindsay, 51, rose to fame playing Shelley Unwin in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street.
Team Captain Sally Lindsay (Photo: Joss Barratt/Channel 5)
The episode opens with the “In Other Words” round, where teams must decode two-word answers using only initials and cleverly crafted synonyms.
In “Cinema Cypher”, film titles are obscured by symbols. Solving it without help gets the team full points, taking a clue means accepting a deduction.
The penultimate round is “Funundrum”, in which teams must unscramble three anagrams, each harder than the last, to earn vital bonus points.
Only one team can claim the puzzling crown.
Carol Vorderman and Ore Oduba (Photo: ITV Studios/5 Broadcasting Limited)When is the show on and who are the first guests?
There are eight episodes in total in this first series and they will be shown very week night in the same time slot.
Gareth Malone and Sally Lindsay (Photo: ITV Studios/5 Broadcasting Ltd)
Guests across the series include: Stephen Bailey, Miles Jupp, Shaun Williamson, Les Dennis, Gareth Malone, John Thomson, Dom Joly, Russell Kane, Melvin Odoom, Paul Sinha, David James, Ore Oduba, Scarlett Moffatt, Dr Ranj Singh, Sam Quek and Rav Wilding.
And choirmaster and broadcaster Gareth Malone will be on Sally Lindsay’s team.
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