Tarrant returns to children's TV

The show is Tarrant's first for digital channel Watch

Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? host Chris Tarrant is returning to children's TV, 27 years after Tiswas, the show which launched his career.

The 62-year-old will present a new eight-part show on digital channel Watch, called Tarrant Lets The Kids Loose. It starts filming this month.

The series will give three to six-year-olds the chance to fulfil their ambitions in the adult world.

Tarrant said: "They say never work with kids or animals... But they're wrong!"

He continued: "Kids are funny, magical and always surprising.

"What parent hasn't told an anecdote about the funny things their children say?"

Live audience

The show, which will be screened in October, aims to allow young children the opportunity to try out their dream job - from working in an ice cream van to becoming a photographer.

However, the children do not know they are being filmed for a TV show - and only find out when they sit in the live studio audience with their parents.

Tarrant said: "This show totally captures the spirit and the inherent comedy of children.

"It's the kind of family entertainment I love."

Tarrant was the host of the anarchic, custard-obsessed ITV children's show Tiswas, which ran from 1974 to 1982 and featured acts like Bob Carolgees and his puppet, Spit the Dog, Lenny Henry and the Phantom Flan Flinger.

He currently presents gameshows The Colour Of Money and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?