It hasn’t so much reinvented Saturday night telly as taken it to new heights of dementedness.
Who knew it would take a bloke in a chameleon outfit parading the type of man-bulge not seen on primetime TV since Gladiators to restore our faith in Saturday night entertainment?
In the first weekend it brought in 6.7 million viewers – that’s almost twice the audience of the celebrity version of The X Factor.
The mask was of course removed to reveal… the former home secretary, Alan Johnson.