New panel show for Alexander Armstrong

Alexander Armstrong is to pilot a new comedy panel show – in which the comics have to think up the questions as well as answer them.

And – like his daytime quiz show Pointless – he will have a sidekick on hand to verify the answers; in this case Come Dine With Me’s voiceover man Dave Lamb.

In Alexander Armstrong’s Big Ask, the panel of three comedian will face categories drawn at random – ‘anything from Scooby Doo to Viagra’, say producers.

A pilot episode is being recorded tomorrow.

It comes after his double-act partner Ben Miller landed a role as a detective in a new BBC TV drama set on a Caribbean island.

He will play Detective Inspector Richard Poole – reluctantly posted to the island of Sainte Marie - in the eight-part series Death In Paradise.