TV Quick Awards Ant & Dec 1998

TV presenters Ant McPartlin (L) and Declan Donnelly at the TV Hits Awards at the Grosvenor Hosuse Hotel in London. 7/11/00: The duo who are quitting the BBC for ITV after talks for a new series of their show Friends Like These broke down. * The Geordie duo already front the hugely successful Saturday morning SM:TV Live on ITV. 21/11/00: The duo are to quit their Saturday morning children's slot. The duo have told ITV bosses they want to leave SM:tv and CD:UK in May 2001. New projects are being prepared for the pair who sprang to fame in the BBC children's series Byker Grove.