Have I Got News For You
- TV panel show
- BBC One / BBC Two
- 1990 - 2025
- 620 episodes (69 series)
Long-running topical panel game with a strong political slant, featuring team captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton. Also features Angus Deayton.
- Returns on Friday 4th April on BBC1 at 9pm with Series 69, Episode 1
- Series 65, Episode 8 repeated tomorrow at 9pm on U&Dave
Streaming rank this week: 1,744
Episode menu
Series 37, Episode 1
Notes
Ian and Katy are the winners.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Friday 24th April 2009
- Time
- 9pm
- Channel
- BBC One
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Ian Hislop | Team Captain |
| Paul Merton | Team Captain |
| Frank Skinner | Host / Presenter |
| Alan Duncan | Guest |
| Katy Brand | Guest |
| Pete Sinclair | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Colin Swash | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Ged Parsons | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Kevin Day | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Giles Pilbrow | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Paul Wheeler | Director |
| Jo Bunting | Producer |
| Mark Barrett | Producer |
| Richard Wilson | Executive Producer |
| Simon Brook | Editor |
| Jon Ellis | Editor |
| Jonathan Paul Green | Production Designer |
| Mikki Rain | Production Designer |
Video
Have I Got News For You, News... For You - 1
The first online version of the show, presented by Alexander Armstrong.
Featuring: Alexander Armstrong.
Press
TV's best topical panel show by a mile returns for an unlikely 37th series. In TV terms the show may be an old-timer, but its satirical teeth can still leave the kind of wound that must keep its libel lawyers busy. That's thanks to the nimble wit of team captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton, still the oddest of TV couples and still adept at ripping the events of the week to comedy shreds.
David Butcher, Radio Times, 24th April 2009They're trying to spice it up, you know. They're doing online bits, they're trying to make the rounds more interactive-y, they're getting hot young comedians as hosts like, um, Frank Skinner. But at heart it will remain the same. And that's okay, really. It sags a bit sometimes but Hislop and Merton are still capable of raising a laugh and are very rarely compromised. We still have no idea how they vote, despite this being the 32nd series, which is quite interesting.
TV Bite, 24th April 2009