Six Nations star-studded pundits line-ups revealed as ITV get twice as many games as BBC

The Six Nations kicks off this weekend - with every single minute of action available to view on free-to-air TV.

Despite the prospect of the broadcast rights being sold off to pay-per-view, ITV and BBC struck a deal to keep the tournament on terrestrial television.

For the next four years, ITV will broadcast two-thirds of the tournament's matches - holding the rights to home games for England, Ireland, France and Italy.

Meanwhile, the BBC will broadcast Wales and Scotland's home matches.

Having jointly broadcast the tournament since 2016, the BBC had previously held the rights for matches in Paris until the current deal - meaning ITV will now be showing two matches per week to the BBC's one.

As part of that deal, the BBC also have the broadcasting rights to the the standalone women's tournament.

Welsh language broadcasters S4C also have a deal for the next four years to show every Wales match.

And here are the faces you'll be seeing across those three channels in the coming weeks.

Starting with the BBC's punditry line-up, there's a fair bit of change. As reported elsewhere, there'll be no Jeremy Guscott this year - joining former presenter John Inverdale in stepping away.

Gabby Logan replaces Inverdale as host for the BBC's reduced coverage - with the channel only broadcasting one game per week in the tournament.

However, the Beeb will welcome back Rugby Special, fronted by former England winger Ugo Monye, to offer highlights from each round of the tournament at 6pm on a Sunday.

The stable of pundits and co-commentators is fairly familiar - with former Wales captain Sam Warburton remaining the channel's big draw on that front.

Former England skipper and coach Martin Johnson, John Barclay and Dylan Hartley are some of