Have I Got News For You: Guide to Modern Britain

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Ian Hislop: My 20 Years at the Eye". Independent. 2007. Archived from the original on 9 May 2022 . Retrieved 2 March 2017. Parker, Robin (22 April 2009). "Have I Got News for You internet spin-off to bridge TV run". BroadcastNow . Retrieved 28 April 2010. Have I Got News for You started broadcasting a video podcast, The Inevitable Internet Spin-off, on 13 April 2007. [18] It was initially planned to run for six series, from series 33 to 38, taking it to the end of 2009. At a Q&A session ahead of the final season of Succession, producers revealed that Brian Cox had originally been their third choice for the role of Logan Roy, landing it only after Robert Redford and Michael Douglas had turned them down.

Deans, Jason; Tryhorn, Chris (10 June 2003). "Forsyth boost for BBC news quiz". The Guardian . Retrieved 15 June 2014. Sotheby's withdrew an auction for a guitar that belonged to Jimi Hendrix in August after an inspection revealed a small bag of cocaine which had been sealed At short notice, Merton hosted the first episode after Deayton's departure, [12] with a series of guest hosts appearing for the remainder of the series, including Anne Robinson, Boris Johnson, and Jeremy Clarkson. [13] Despite an initial search for a permanent successor to Deayton, having a different guest host each week proved successful, with average audience figures increasing from 6 million to 7 million, [14] leading to it becoming a permanent feature in the programme's format in June 2003. [15] For Valentine's Day 2023, Build- A- Bear Workshop launched a range of adult- only bears, complete with wine bottles, stilettos and sexy lingerie.Robins, Jane (7 November 1998). "Have I got news about the editors at the BBC...". Independent. Archived from the original on 9 May 2022 . Retrieved 27 September 2018. Each episode consists of a general format that is largely unchanged since the programme first premiered. All begin with an introduction by the host, who gives out a set of satirical, fictional comedic news stories that are often accompanied with a video clip from news programmes or general public recordings to provide the joke, followed by introductions of the episode's guest panellists. After this, the episode focuses on four rounds that generally follow the same arrangement: Deayton read languages at New College, Oxford, where he was recruited into the Oxford Revue, performing with them at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. This led to the creation of the parody band The Hee Bee Gee Bees in 1980, with the songs written by Richard Curtis and Philip Pope. Their best-selling single "Meaningless Songs" (plus the B-side "Posing in the Moonlight") was a parody of the falsetto style of countless disco hits by the Bee Gees. Ray Winstone calls Scots 'tramps' on TV quiz show". The Scotsman. Johnston Press. 1 May 2013 . Retrieved 1 January 2014.

The Estonian version, called Teletaip ("TV uptake"), was first aired in 2000 on ETV; seven series were produced. Its two main hosts were the comedian Tarmo Leinatamm and former MEP Indrek Tarand. [41] What a strange year 2023 has been. Here's an extract from the Have I Got News For You: The Quiz Of 2023 book to test how much you have been paying attention. In April 2013, the programme received over 100 complaints for an episode that involved discussions on a news article on Scottish independence. The focus of the complaints was on comments deemed to promote anti-Scottish sentiment, made by Hislop and by guest host Ray Winstone, who joked that the Scottish economy relied chiefly on exporting "oil, whisky, tartan and tramps" and encouraged the audience to vote for "...them to bugger off". [29] Have I Got News for You: The Official Pirate Video (1997) was another special straight-to-video episode, featuring guests Martin Clunes and Neil Morrissey. [note 2] The Finnish version called Uutisvuoto ("newsleak") was broadcast for 20 years, 1998–2018 on Yle TV1, and was one of the most popular TV shows, and also the continuously longest running TV entertainment show, in Finland. [39] [ circular reference] In 2019, the show continued on MTV3 with its original host Peter Nyman. [40]In August, Edinburgh Zoo admitted that a koala bear escaped in 2015 and was on the loose for seven months before being captured on a farm sixteen miles away. Dutch comedian Raoul Heertje appeared on the original Have I Got News for You in May 1995. A year later he became team captain in the newly launched Dutch version of the show: Dit was het nieuws ("This was the news"). On 19 December 2009, the last episode was broadcast. [37] RTL ran new episodes between May 2011 and October 2015; in December 2017, the show returned to the public broadcaster AVROTROS. [38] In April, a Spanish woman broke the world record for living alone in a cave after spending five hundred days seventy metres below the earth's surface.

Pedersen, Pål Fredrik (25 March 2017). "Nytt på nytt kåret til tidenes underholdningsprogram". Nytt på nytt kåret til tidenes underholdningsprogram (in Norwegian). TV 2 . Retrieved 3 November 2018. Round 3 focuses on panellists given four personalities, characters and/or objects, in which they must define the link that connects three of these, and point out the item that is the odd one out in this regard. The number of "odd one outs" that are given in the round vary depending on what production staff arrange, but usually consist of a single question.On 1 October 2009, the last " webisode" episode was made available via both the BBC iPlayer and YouTube. [34] Other shows based on the Have I Got News for You format [ edit ] Episodes are usually set to around 30 minutes in length, and are edited from the footage taken from a longer recording session the day before an episode is broadcast. The time frame given is used to allow the programme to retain the topical elements that an episode will feature, while allowing for any potentially defamatory material to be cut by the BBC's team of lawyers to avoid legal issues. The focus on each episode is on four panellists – the show's two regulars, and two guests – split between two teams, answering questions related to topical items in the news that occurred within the previous week, but the format often forgoes this aspect and the scoring system in favour of the panellists' witty exchanges, jokes, and satirical discussions on the question's relevant news item. a b "A lot more news for you: News 2007: Chortle: The UK Comedy Guide". Chortle. 11 April 2007 . Retrieved 19 February 2017. Find sources: "Have I Got News for You"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( May 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)