TWO new quiz formats have been commissioned by ITV Daytime – Ejector Seat and The 21st Question.

Presented by Andi Peters, Ejector Seat sees six players take their place in one of six imposing seats – each at the top of a track that leads back toward “the edge”.

The game is simple: if players can answer a series of fast-paced general knowledge questions, they stay sitting happily in their seat. But if they answer questions incorrectly, their seat starts to travel back along its track, towards the edge. And if they fail to stop themselves, they’re ejected out of their seats and off the show.

Competitors are ejected one by one until one contestant plays the final round with the chance to win up to £10,000.

Gethin Jones will present The 21st Question, a new quiz format centred around 21 Questions. One “power player”

chosen at the start, faces ten challengers through a series of winner-stays-on rounds designed to test strategy and the wits of all players.

Only one of the players will successfully fend off all the competition, and whoever is left standing faces a chance to win big – provided they can answer The 21st Question.

Helen Warner, director of ITV Daytime, said: “ITV Daytime is the home of some fantastic quiz formats, with the hugely successful The Chase and Tipping Point, so I am delighted to welcome these two exciting new series to the schedule for 2014.”

DUDLEY SUTTON and James Redmond will join the cast of ITV’s Emmerdale.

The secrets of the past come home to roost for Ruby Haswell (Alicya Eyo) when her former boyfriend makes an appearance in the most unlikely of circumstances.

James Redmond, who has been a regular on both Casualty and Hollyoaks, will play Seb, who re-appears in Ruby’s life as she struggles with mounting debt and unsuccessful attempts to become pregnant and have a much yearned-for baby with her partner, Ali (Kelli Hollis).

Consequently, Ruby applies for a job as a carer who looks after an elderly gentleman, William, who happens to be her former boyfriend’s father.

Veteran actor Dudley Sutton takes the role of William, who with his old fashioned attitude, initially makes things difficult for Ruby. Redmond and Sutton will be on screen from the end of February.

Sutton previous appeared in Emmerdale in 1997 – as a tramp. “It’s great to be back in Yorkshire and I have fond memories of filming the Beiderbecke trilogy in the same building as Emmerdale is now filmed,” he says.

Redmond is back acting after a break to concentrate on stand-up comedy. “It will be great to join the cast of Emmerdale and Seb will be my first time playing a Northerner,” he says.

ROB BRYDON will host a new entertainment series The Guess List for Saturday night on BBC1.

Each show features two contestants competing for a prize that has been specially selected for them. Helping the contestants find the answers are five famous faces from the worlds of sport, music, TV or film. Along the way, Brydon ensures that those famous faces take on one or two unexpected questions of their own.