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
Streaming rank this week: 829
Press clippings Page 18
Jeremy Clarkson's HIGNFY roasting gets mixed reaction
TV panellist Richard Osman was praised for ripping into the disgraced Top Gear host but some viewers were questioning whether he went too far.
Nicola Agius, The Mirror, 2nd October 2015Have I Got News For You - Jeremy Clarkson, review
Clarkson was like a boyfriend reconnecting with an ex and beginning to regret it, says Ed Power.
Ed Power, The Telegraph, 2nd October 2015Jeremy Clarkson battered on Have I Got News For You
The former Top Gear host is the butt of every gag on this week's Have I Got News For You.
Halina Watts, The Mirror, 1st October 2015Have I Got News For You: the best presenters and guests
Have I Got News For You has just turned 25. Captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton will return to our screens this Friday for the 50th series premiere, presented by none other than Jeremy Clarkson. Over the years a succession of guests and - following Angus Deayton's controversial sacking in 2002 - presenters have graced the show. We round up the best.
Max Williams, GQ, 28th September 2015Jeremy Clarkson on HIGNFY: 1st BBC show since sacking
The ex-Top Gear host pulled out of presenting the satirical panel show after the high profile furore following his fracas with a producer.
Carl Greenwood, The Mirror, 18th September 201525 years of Have I Got News For You: A timeline
A quarter of a century ago this month, Maggie still ruled Britain, the Soviet Union still existed and a new topical panel show came to BBC Two. The host and team captains of Have I Got News For You were all in their earlier thirties and while not unknown were not exactly household names either.
Chris Hallam, Chris Hallam's World View, 17th September 2015Sandi Toksvig: BBC denied me host role because I'm a woman
Outgoing News Quiz presenter says her gender was the reason the corporation didn’t choose her for Have I Got News For You 25 years ago
John Plunkett, The Guardian, 16th June 2015Charles Kennedy saluted in Have I Got News For You
Guest host Jack Dee introduces vintage clips of the politician's best moments, including him out-quipping Jeremy Clarkson.
The Guardian, 6th June 2015It's taken until series 49 for author and film-maker Jon Ronson to make his debut as a HIGNFY panellist, a belated opportunity for the soft-spoken documentarian to witness the satirical-surreal power struggle between captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton up close. With any luck, some poor soul will have been recently crucified in the court of public opinion after a social media blunder, allowing Ronson to share some of the wisdom he acquired while researching his latest bestseller, So You've Been Publicly Shamed.
Graeme Virtue, The Guardian, 22nd May 2015How fabulous to have an episode of Have I Got News For You, filmed as election news was still coming in (Friday, BBC1). With all the demob feeling of "EastEnders go to Marbella", this had a real frisson of the improvised. There was a certain catharsis to be had hearing Ian Hislop officially voicing what everyone had been talking about all day: "Everyone said it was unpredictable. Because they'd got it wrong."
And the live quality really added something: "Can I just tell you something? It is the end of Farage." "Can we stop for a minute? Nick Clegg has resigned." Line of the night went to Romesh Ranganathan, on the failure of Mori and the like: "Farage has been banging on about not trusting the Poles for ages ..." And is there any reason why Jo Brand shouldn't be the permanent host?
Viv Groskop, The Guardian, 11th May 2015