‘The Chase’ has been renewed for another two years.
It was previously revealed that the popular ITV quiz show is getting two spin-offs, ‘Beat the Chasers’ and ‘Are You Smarter Than A Chaser?’, plus a brand new Chaser this year, and now host Bradley Walsh has revealed the channel has asked for 500 more episodes of the main show over the next 24 months.
The ‘Doctor Who’ star admitted that he believes viewers love the show so much because of his hilarious reactions to the questions, which can sometimes be risqué.
Speaking to The Sun newspaper’s Bizarre TV column, he said: "I have stopped [filming] for a good four, five minutes where I can’t get it together.
"We’ve just signed a two-year agreement to do another 500 episodes but the concept was pure luck.
"There was a saucy question and I found it funny and one of the guys said, ‘Look Brad you’ve got to stop laughing’ and the other guy said, ‘Why don’t you leave it in?’ — and they started adding in questions that made me laugh."
Bradley recently revealed they have a new mastermind arriving on the show this year.
He said: "It’s accessible, people love it, it’s 10 years old now.
"What can you say? We’ve got a brand new chaser coming in for another new series now. It’s all good."
And a spokesperson for the popular teatime programme said: "A new Chaser will be revealed in due course."
All of the current chasers – Anne Hegerty (The Governess), Mark Labbett (The Beast), Shaun Wallace (The Dark Destroyer) , Paul Sinha (The Sinnerman) and Jenny Ryan (The Vixen) – will remain.
The show, which airs weekdays at 5pm, sees four strangers work together as a team to answer general knowledge questions on this quiz show in a bid to win as much cash as possible and not get caught out by their opponent, one of the Chasers.
The spin-off ‘Beat the Chasers’ will see a contestant face all five champions appear at the same time.
Whilst ‘Are You Smarter Than A Chaser?’ will see the Chasers compete with brainboxes around the world, as well as AI robots.
ITV orders 500 more episodes of The Chase
