Craig Charles will be the face of a new afternoon gameshow called Moneybags.
Contestants will get the chance to, quite literally, win bags of cash up to £1 million pounds each week.
Despite it coming to Channel 4 from the makers of Million Pound Drop and Pointless, former Coronation Street star Craig has no qualms with mocking rival quiz shows.
"This is a Channel 4 show, and I think it is happy in its own skin," said Craig.
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"I don't know if they've kept it in, but we did take the mick out of some of the other shows. Sometimes I'd tell a contestant, 'fifty thousand pounds in that bag! You’d have to win Pointless 50 times to take that much home, you know.'
"So yes, I did have some slight digs but they’re only playful. It's only when you decide to do a quiz show, you realise how much competition there is out there. I just hope that viewers give this one a chance."
When does it start and what is it about?
Moneybags starts on Monday, November 8 at 3pm and airs every weekday at the same time.
In each episode, players hope to be selected to take their place in front of the money belt for one of the three head-to-head battles.
"In this high-stakes quiz that puts mental speed to the test, contestants face a series of questions with the answers on moneybags that pass along a conveyor belt in front of them," Channel 4 said.
"Grab a right answer and you get that bag’s value – anything from £1,000 to £100,000. But pick a wrong bag and you could lose everything. Every week a massive £1 million will pass down the conveyor belt – it’s just up to our players to grab it.
"Whoever banks the most cash in each round will compete in the ‘triple-header’ - a tense three-way battle in which whoever grabs, or steals, the most cash will play to win it all in the Moneybags final."
Craig, who also recently started a new weekday afternoon show on BBC Radio 6 Music, says he'd been offered quiz shows before, but Moneybags felt like the right fit.
"If I do a quiz show, it's got to be right," he said.
"There are so many quizzes on the television now. Some of them are brilliant, but some are really quite complicated.
"I just wanted it be the right one for me. And when this came along, it just felt like the right fit for me.
"It suited my personality and the tone of the game was really working for me. Plus, the fact that there's a lot of money up for grabs for the players really appealed to me as well.
"There’s a chance to be in the middle of somebody’s life changing moment and that's what got me really excited."
Moneybags airs weekdays at 3pm on Channel 4 from Monday 8 November and streams on All 4 .
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