Have I Got News for You: Difference between revisions

For its first 10 years, the programme was shown on [[BBC Two]]. In 2000, the BBC moved its nightly [[BBC One]] news bulletin, the ''[[BBC Nine O'Clock News]]'', from nine o'clock to ten o'clock (now known as the ''[[BBC News at Ten]]'') after [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] moved their long-running ten o'clock bulletin, [[ITV News at Ten|''News at Ten'']], to eleven o'clock. This left a gap in the schedules, and ''Have I Got News for You'' was moved as a result to 9pm on Friday nights on BBC One, where it has remained since, apart from two series in 2010 when the show was broadcast on Thursday nights.

 

 

==Participants==

Apart from Merton, there are twelve other people who have appeared as a panellist after being a guest host: [[Clive Anderson]], [[Gyles Brandreth]], [[Marcus Brigstocke]], [[Jimmy Carr]], [[Jeremy Clarkson]] (who subsequently appeared as a guest host again), [[Alan Johnson]], [[Charles Kennedy]], [[Richard Madeley]], [[Richard Osman]], [[Robert Peston]], [[John Prescott]] and [[Liza Tarbuck]]. The only guests to have also worked on the production off camera are [[Kevin Day]] and [[John O'Farrell (author)|John O'Farrell]] who have both had stints on the writing team.

 

{{Main|List of Have I Got News for You presenters}}

 

[[Alexander Armstrong]] holds the record for both most appearances as guest presenter, as well as most guest appearances in total, having appeared 30 times in the central chair. He has never appeared in any other role. [[Andy Hamilton]] holds the record for appearances as a guest panellist, with 20.

 

Many guests have appeared on the programme multiple times. The list below includes guests who have appeared as presenter or panelist, and does not include the two video-exclusive releases, ''Have I Got Unbroadcastable News for You'' and ''The Official Pirate Video'', nor the various [[Comic Relief]] specials.

 

 

{| border="0" style="width:100%;"

* [[Miles Jupp]]

* [[Charles Kennedy]]

* [[Will Self]]

* [[Mark Steel]]

'''8 appearances'''

* [[Julia Hartley-Brewer]]

* [[Jon Richardson (comedian)|Jon Richardson]]

 

* [[Armando Iannucci]]

* [[Boris Johnson]]

 

'''6 appearances'''

* [[Fred MacAulay]]

* [[Lembit Öpik]]

* [[Linda Smith (comedian)|Linda Smith]]

| style="width:25%; vertical-align:top;"|

 

* [[Sara Pascoe]]

* [[Sue Perkins]]

* [[John Sergeant (journalist)|John Sergeant]]

* [[Francis Wheen]]

| style="width:25%; vertical-align:top;"|

 

* [[Susan Calman]]

* [[Alan Coren]]

* [[Hugh Dennis]]

* [[Alan Duncan]]

[[Norman Tebbit]] wrote an article in ''[[Daily Mail|The Mail on Sunday]]'' criticising the whole programme: 'Well, of course ''Have I Got News for You'' is all edited. These people, they couldn't improvise live. You put them on a stage, they wouldn't be able to improvise.' Merton said of this: "Well, when Norman Tebbit said I couldn't improvise, I was... [''blows out cheeks and then goes silent'']."<ref>Quote taken from a show on Merton's "and this is me PAUL MERTON" tour of 1999, as featured in ''[[The South Bank Show]]'' on 26 September 1999</ref>

 

The main section of the show comprises several rounds, although, as noted above, this is liable to change. Since the show originally aired, several rounds have been dropped from the original format, but a typical show will usually consist of the following:

* Round 1 is the "Film Round". Silent video clips, usually from news reports, are played to the teams. Two points are awarded for correctly identifying the story – but as the round covers the major stories of the week, the quiz aspect is downplayed here in favour of discussion and banter. The host will still ask questions to highlight details of a story, but no further points are awarded for the answers.

Similar shows based on the ''Have I Got News for You'' format exist in other countries:

* American weekly radio show ''[[Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!]]'' was started in 1998 on public radio network [[NPR]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/513277599/wait-wait-for-feb-4-2017-with-not-my-job-guest-mavis-staples |title=NPR Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me |publisher=NPR |date=2017 |accessdate=2 March 2017}}</ref> Based in Chicago, the show follows a similar format with three panellists competing to win but no teams. They play some of the same games including fill in the missing headline, however many games are off limits due to their visual nature. Frequently the same stories are covered on both Wait Wait and Have I Got News for You. Differences include, listeners calling in to win mini games and a celebrity interview and quiz in the middle of the show. ''Wait Wait'' is more closely related to ''[[The News Quiz]]'' which is also the inspiration for ''Have I Got News for You''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nightlisteners.com/public/wait-wait-don%E2%80%99t-tell-me%E2%80%A6/ |title=Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me... « Night Listeners |publisher=Nightlisteners.com |date=13 May 2009 |accessdate=28 April 2010 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091201165659/http://www.nightlisteners.com/public/wait-wait-don%E2%80%99t-tell-me%E2%80%A6/ |archivedate=1 December 2009 |df= }}</ref>

* In Finland a show called ''[[Uutisvuoto]]'' (literally "newsleak"; the pun works as well in both languages) has been aired since 1998.

* In Australia, [[Paul McDermott (comedian)|Paul McDermott]] hosted ''[[Good News Week]]'' (''GNW''), first on [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation|ABC TV]] from 1996 to 2000 and later on [[Network Ten]] from 2008 to 2012. The Ten version also had a weekend broadcast, ''Good News Weekend'', taking its format from ''[[Never Mind the Buzzcocks]]''. In 2001, the company also developed a similar programme to ''Good News Weekend'' called ''[[The Glass House (2001 TV series)|The Glass House]]'' on ABC TV.

[[Category:English-language television programs]]

[[Category:Television series by Hat Trick Productions]]