People cosplay as Stormtroopers at the China International Comics and Games Expo in Shanghai, on July 12, 2013. Photo: VCG

Star Wars fans will get a chance to enter the Jedi ranks in a new Disney+ TV game show - if they can stomach the return of the much-maligned Jar Jar Binks. 

Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge will be hosted by Ahmed Best, who played the bumbling, comedic alien sidekick regularly voted the sci-fi franchise's most hated character. 

The live-action game show will appear on Disney's new on-demand streaming platform Disney+, which launched in the US last month with a flagship new scripted Star Wars series The Mandalorian.

Contestants will take on challenges in places including a forest planet, a star cruiser and a Jedi temple, Disney said Tuesday.

The competition will test "core Jedi principles of strength, knowledge and bravery," a statement said.

However Best - a musician and former Stomp cast member - will shun his Jar Jar Binks character this time, and instead play a Jedi master who will serve as the host and mentor to contestants.