And now Romesh is doing Weakest Link

Anne Robinson starts her tenure as Countdown host tomorrow.

But tonight The Sun has the scoop that Romesh Ranganathan is being lined up to host a rebooted Weakest Link, intended for Saturday night and played with celebs for charity.

It’s a good booking (for years I thought it should be Robert Rinder but I can see why they’ve gone for Romesh) for this up and coming TV comic who hasn’t been associated with a new show for the best part of a week now. His pissed-off uncle persona kind of fits, and Ranganation recently won a BAFTA.

Only two things working against it: if it’s going to use the recent point-missing US one as a model, and that the Children in Need one a few years ago was a bit crap. Yes I know the appeal is mainly in the insults, but you need a decent game in order to set them up properly, hopefully the production team will have taken on board lessons.