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 27th December on BBC1 at 10pm with Series 68, Highlights Special
- Catch-up on Series 68, Episode 10
Streaming rank this week: 113
Press clippings Page 11
The last show in a riotous run finds Richard Ayoade in charge as regular team leaders Ian Hislop and Paul Merton and their guests, Pointless presenter and producer Richard Osman and the comedian Kiri Pritchard-McLean, lampoon the week's events and muse on the spectacle of the Tory leadership race.
Mike Bradley, The Guardian, 31st May 2019Change UK asks BBC to explain pulling HIGNFY
New party writes to BBC director general to demand urgent review of coverage of Change UK.
Mattha Busby, The Guardian, 11th May 2019Have I Got News For You episode pulled
Tonight's episode of Have I Got News For You has been pulled from broadcast due to election impartiality rules.
British Comedy Guide, 10th May 2019Johnny Mercer's faces Ian Hislop ire on HIGNFY
The MPs appearance on the BBC comedy show comes just days after a BBC news report into his high-paying second job.
Simon Rushton, i Newspaper, 26th April 2019Series we've lost count (it's 57, if you must ask) of the panel show begins with David Dimbleby in the host's chair. Joining Merton and Hislop, meanwhile, are the doc-maker, Stacey Dooley and the German comic Henning Wehn, who is sure to land some digs at his adopted country's omni-Brexit-shambles.
Gwilym Mumford, The Guardian, 5th April 2019One Brexit positive? It may make HIGNFY watchable again
The panel show hasn't been funny since at least 2012. But the sheer stupidity and self-destructiveness of our politics may just help it rediscover its bite.
Stuart Heritage, The Guardian, 5th April 2019Comedy.co.uk Awards 2018 shortlist
The shortlisted TV and radio shows for the Comedy.co.uk Awards 2018 have been announced. 60 programmes are now in the running for the Comedy Of The Year title.
British Comedy Guide, 21st January 2019Gary Lineker splits opinion as HIGNFY host
A debate over free speech and BBC impartiality has raged all week.
Simon Rushton, i Newspaper, 15th December 2018National treasure and succinct David Cameron biographer Danny Dyer lands in the host's chair for that increasingly rare thing: a must-see episode of the game old panel show. Ian Hislop and Paul Merton will patronise him at their peril. In the other guest slots are comic Sara Pascoe and Judy Murray.
Jack Seale, The Guardian, 7th December 2018Danny Dyer hosts Have I Got News for You, review
"I forgot how highbrow this f***ing show is." So said guest host Danny Dyer on Have I Got News For You (BBC One). The EastEnders star's industrial language and nimble natural wit made for an uproarious installment of the hoary old satirical quiz.
Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 7th December 2018