Return of the MACK

LEE MACK on putting more people to the test in The 1% Club, plus we look back on seven of the comedian's career gems

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THE 1% CLUB NEW SAT, 8.30PM, ITV1 GAME SHOW

Lee Mack can't wait to take over Saturday nights again when his smash-hit show The 1% Club bursts back onto ITV1 for a fourth series this week.

'Let's be honest, the fact that I haven't accidentally given a £100,000 to the wrong person or read out the answer instead of the question is as much as a surprise to me as it is to anyone,' grins the award-winning comedian, 56. 'So I'm delighted that ITV is risking me steering this ship again!'

Each episode in the new 17-part run will again see 100 contestants trying to solve conundrums designed to test common sense and logic in a quest to make it through to the final round where they'll have the chance to answer a question only 1% of the country would get right.

'17 weeks of shouting at the telly because you've just found out Nan is cleverer than you. What more do you want from a Saturday night?' asks Lee, who is delighted that millions of us play along at home.

'People tell me, “The 1% Club is great family viewing, but we don't watch it together.” So they're in different houses, but texting each other!'

And The 1% Club isn't the only show of Lee's that has proved popular with viewers. So, here, we celebrate seven magnificent career highlights to date...

NOT GOING OUT 2006-present

It has already enjoyed 13 series, 100 episodes and cemented Lee as a household name, but Not Going Out – the BBC1 sitcom that he writes and stars in – 'came about by accident,' he says.