The Million Pound Drop - Celebrity Games

Remarkable Television, an Endemol company has been commissioned to produce eight special episodes of The Million Pound Drop in celebration of a historic summer of sport.

Over four weekends a mixture of top class celebrities and noted sportsmen from the Paralympic Games, Olympic Games and other sporting fields, will be tasked with the challenge of raising as much money as they can for charity.

Presented by Davina McCall, The Million Pound Drop - Celebrity Games will see the contestants be given one million pounds in cash at the top of the show; all they have to do is keep hold of it over eight tricky questions. Played out on The Drop, the possible answers to each question are displayed on four trapdoors, where one wrong answer can see thousands of pounds drop through the floor. Across each weekend our celebrities will be working together to raise as much money as possible, and if they do particularly well they could even win bonus money to boost their prize pot.

David Flynn, creator of The Million Pound Drop Live comments: "In this summer of sport, celebrities will face the ultimate challenge as they try to break records and make lots of money against the toughest competitor of all - The Million Pound Drop"

Viewers at home can play with a virtual million pounds alongside the contestants with the hugely successful play along online game or with the newly launched The Million Pound Drop mobile app which also features a brand new Play Any Time Game as well as the Play Along Game.

The Million Pound Drop - Celebrity Games will launch later this summer on Channel 4. The series was ordered by Entertainment Commissioner Syeda Irtizaali. Paul McGettigan is Series Producer and the Executive Producers are David Flynn, Tom Blakeson and Michelle Woods.