Snookering you again: Big Break to return with Stephen Hendry on trick-shot duties

Stephen Hendry, Jim Davidson and the late John Virgo on the original show in the early 1990s. Photograph: BBC

The BBC is reracking the balls and chalking the cues again after announcing that the classic TV gameshow Big Break will return after 24 years away.

The seven-time snooker world champion Stephen Hendry is to co-host the series alongside the presenter and comic Paddy McGuinness in a reboot of a show that originally ran for 10 series from 1991 to 2002.