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Richard Hammond is launching his own production company, through which he will front a new children's science gameshow for BBC One.
Richard Hammond's Lab Rats will see the Top Gear host rule over a "surreal and fictional... top secret underground laboratory".
Two teams of children will compete in carrying out experiments and other tasks in each week's half-hour episode.
The show will start early next year in the Friday night BBC One CBBC block and on the CBBC channel.
Hammond's new indie, Hamster’s Wheel Productions, is a production partner with September Films.
Peter Wyles, executive producer for September, said: "Richard is the perfect person to host this series – he lives and breathes the world of popular science. As parents ourselves, we are both incredibly keen to make science entertaining and engaging for a new generation."
