The father-son duo are the hosts of Shaun Micallef's Parents' Evening, which premiered on September 28.
"When he was a kid, we used to recreate scenes from movies we'd watched and enjoyed," Micallef said.
"This is kind of a version of the same thing. It's a bit like getting some boxes together and making a Batmobile ... he's just a bit older now."
Micallef said the offer to do the show "came out of the blue", but he couldn't do it unless his son was interested.
"I said, 'Look ... I'm keen to do as many different things that I haven't done (before) as possible, with whatever time I've got left'," the television host said.
"'I haven't done a show with a member of my family, so that might be interesting.'"
If his son - who Micallef joked was a "nepo baby" - didn't think it was a good idea, the comedian said he wouldn't have encouraged him to do it.
"I think that would be terrible. 'Gabe, can you do this so that I can have a job?'" he said.
However, the main draw to the program for Micallef was being able to "build something with my son".
The show's premise is simple: parents predict how many questions their adult children will answer correctly, with the winning teams taking home bragging rights and money for charity.
So far, the series has featured the likes of journalist Ray Martin and his daughter Jenna; comedian Joel Creasey and his mum Jenny; and newsreader Jessica Rowe with her daughter Allegra Overton.
Micallef said the show also fulfilled the promise he made to himself after Mad As Hell finished that he would be "in the service of other people's stories".
"We're getting that with the teams. We see Jessica Rowe in a different way. We see how she is so incredibly supportive of her daughter, Allegra," he said.
"When Jenna Martin was answering the questions right in the first episode, we see that Ray can't help but look proud."
Famous or not, the program proves that you can never fake it with family, as Micallef said it enables viewers to "have a peek into the person when their guard is down".
"Having a parent or a child sitting next to you, who's yours, helps because you can't fake it. You can be quite real," he said.
Shaun Micallef's Parents' Evening airs on Mondays at 7:30pm on Network Ten and streams on Ten Play.
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