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.
- Series 60, Episode 1 repeated at 11:35pm on U&Dave
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National 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 2018Danny Dyer to host Have I Got News For You
Dyer will front the popular news quiz on December 7th.
Kimberley Bond, Radio Times, 16th November 2018HIGNFY fluffed a joke about GCHQ and Greggs
Episode of flagship BBC satirical comedy show, hosted by Victoria Coren Mitchell, didn't know its GCHQ from its MI5
Phil Norris, Gloucestershire Live, 4th November 2018Steph McGovern: 'Creepy' Trump called me beautiful
McGovern, 36, recalled the exchange while appearing as a guest host on BBC One's Have I Got News For You.
BBC, 26th October 2018It is a mystery why Alexander Armstrong has not been hired as permanent chair of the spontaneous satirical news quiz - it feels made for his wry timing. In the first of a new run, the comedian, gameshow host and would-be opera singer resumes the role of guest referee, attempting to control captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton, plus BBC Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty and comedian-actor Josh Widdicombe. Hislop is already licking his chops at the prospect of lampooning a shambolic few weeks in British politics.
Mike Bradley, The Guardian, 5th October 2018HIGNFY trusted by viewers more than real news: Hislop
Ian Hislop and Paul Merton said the long-running satirical series now plays a vital role in challenging "fake news."
Adam Sherwin, i Newspaper, 21st September 2018Is it time to put HIGNFY out of its misery?
Ian Hislop's recent comments about female hosts being too 'modest' to present the show were indicative of the show's tired and flabby complacency.
Fiona Sturges, The Guardian, 14th April 2018Have I got news for women? Not really.
No wonder female MPs steer clear of a TV show that celebrates smirking buffoonery.
Catherine Bennett, The Guardian, 8th April 2018The 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 2018