Have I Got News For You
- TV panel show
- BBC One / BBC Two
- 1990 - 2024
- 610 episodes (68 series)
Long-running topical panel game with a strong political slant, featuring team captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton. Also features Angus Deayton.
- Continues on Friday on BBC1 at 9pm with Series 68, Episode 7
- Catch-up on Series 68, Episode 6
Streaming rank this week: 208
Episode menu
- Series 55, Episode 1
Further details
Paxman is said to have really enjoyed presenting the show, despite previously telling the show's producer "I'd rather have my testicles crushed between two bricks" when they asked him on a few years ago.
The satirical quiz show has much to debate in this new series, from spy poisonings to Brexit and Cambridge Analytica data breaches. In addition, in this first episode they also covered Teesside's finest culinary delicacy, The Parmo. Steph McGovern commented: "Ah lads you've never had a chicken parmo? [...] You haven't had a good night out until you've woken up with a bit of parmo on your face!"
Notes
Ian and Steph won, 8 points to 6.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Friday 6th April 2018
- Time
- 9:30pm
- Channel
- BBC One
- Length
- 30 minutes
- Recorded
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- Thursday 5th April 2018, 18:30 at The London Studios
Cast & crew
| Ian Hislop | Team Captain |
| Paul Merton | Team Captain |
| Jeremy Paxman | Host / Presenter |
| Josh Widdicombe | Guest |
| Steph McGovern | Guest |
| Colin Swash | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Rob Colley | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Kevin Day | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Giles Pilbrow | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Shaun Pye | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Fraser Steele | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Karl Minns | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Paul Wheeler | Director |
| Jo Bunting | Series Producer |
| Ed Ryland | Producer |
| Richard Wilson | Executive Producer |
| Ruby Kuraishe | Executive Producer |
| Simon Brook | Editor |
| Jon Ellis | Editor |
| Todd Dalton | Editor |
| Rich Ellis (as Richard Ellis) | Editor |
| Nick Pratt | Editor |
| Jonathan Paul Green | Production Designer |
| Mikki Rain | Production Designer |
| Hugo Keating | Production Designer |
| Karen Jackson | Costume Designer |
| Peter Raby | Lighting Designer |
| George Webley (as Big George) | Composer |
Press
The biggest problem for the makers of a satirical news quiz in 2018 must be knowing where to start. Hislop and Merton's Friday-night fixture has felt slightly flabby in recent series but Brexit, Trump and Cambridge Analytica feel like fish in a barrel, just waiting to be shot. Jeremy Paxman hosts this opener.
Phil Harrison, The Guardian, 6th April 2018HIGNFY: women hit back against 'too modest' claims
Politicians and comics dispute Ian Hislop's comments about reasons for lack of female hosts on panel show.
Bruce Dessau, The Guardian, 6th April 2018Hislop should ask why women are too modest for HIGNFY
If HIGNFY has created an environment that women are reluctant to enter, that is not on women - that's on Hislop and friends.
Tracy King, The New Statesman, 5th April 2018