Katherine Ryan is set to front a new TV show that will bring the popular card game Top Trumps to life. The series, titled Top Trumps: The Comedy Pack, is a comedy-first take on the classic game, which first launched in 1978.
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Commissioned for eight 60-minute episodes, the show will air on TLC early next year. Ryan will be joined by an all-star cast of comedians, led by team captains Joel Dommett and Jon Richardson. They will go head-to-head in battles featuring classic card face-offs, live studio challenges, and bluffing games.
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Katherine Ryan said: "Everyone knows Top Trumps, but no one has ever played it quite like this. We’re taking this iconic game and supersizing it into something bigger, louder and much funnier. And with Jon and Joel captaining rival teams, chaos is pretty much guaranteed."
Joel Dommett commented: "Top Trumps and me have a lot in common - it’s fun, simple and older than you think. I used to get very excited playing Top Trumps back in the day, and now I get to play it on the telly with two famously un-excitable comedians, Katherine Ryan and Jon Richardson. It’s really gonna be a blast."
Jon Richardson added: "For too long the world has been led to believe that there are no good Trumps, so I'm delighted to be on a show that celebrates the very best of them. I'm a sucker for a game with clear rules and a winner at the end, so Top Trumps has always made sense to me. Let's see whether careful planning can beat sheer enthusiasm once and for all."
The announcement follows the premiere of TLC’s comedy format Unacceptable, hosted by Ed Gamble, which launched earlier this month and will return for a second series later this year.
