Chris Tarrant returns to kids' TV

Chris Tarrant returns to kids' TV (Image credit: EMPICS)

Former Tiswas host Chris Tarrant is making a return to children's entertainment with a new TV show. The eight-part series called Tarrant Lets The Kids Loose will probably feature less gunk and goo than Tiswas did 30 years ago. The new show, commissioned by Watch, will give three to six-year-olds a go at fulfilling their ambitions in the adult world, whether it is running a photographic studio, a radio station or an ice-cream van. The Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? host said of the new series: "They say never work with kids or animals. "But you know what? They're wrong! Kids are funny, magical and always surprising. "What parent hasn't told an anecdote about the funny things their children say? "This show totally captures the spirit and the inherent comedy of children - it's the kind of family entertainment I love." Tarrant Lets The Kids Loose begins filming this month and will hit screens in October.

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Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix.

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.