At short notice, Merton hosted the first episode after Deayton's departure, [12] with a series of guest hosts appearing for the remainder of the series, including Anne Robinson, Boris Johnson, and Jeremy Clarkson. [13] Despite an initial search for a permanent successor to Deayton, having a different guest host each week proved successful, with average audience figures increasing from 6 million to 7 million, [14] leading to it becoming a permanent feature in the programme's format in June 2003. [15] Media Monkey (28 November 2007). "Widdecombe disgusted by Carr's 'filth' ". The Guardian . Retrieved 2 February 2018. Round 4 focuses on a headline from newspapers and a guest publication, in which a choice selection of words is blanked out, and the panellists must suggest what these could be. Often or not, the panellists never give the right answer, and the round is mainly focused on what comedic line could be spun from the headline, based on what words are left visible. For example, a comedian could fill in the blank for the following – "Church may be forced to sell _____" – with something that would be considered highly unlikely and bizarre to read about.

Have I Got News For You Heidi Allen episode pulled due to Euro elections". BBC News. 11 May 2019 . Retrieved 11 May 2019. Jan Jaap van der Wal en Peter Pannekoek naast Harm Edens in Dit was het nieuws". AVROTROS. 14 November 2017. Archived from the original on 18 September 2017 . Retrieved 14 January 2018. The Finnish version called Uutisvuoto ("newsleak") was broadcast for 20 years, 1998–2018 on Yle TV1, and was one of the most popular TV shows, and also the continuously longest running TV entertainment show, in Finland. [39] [ circular reference] In 2019, the show continued on MTV3 with its original host Peter Nyman. [40] Parker, Robin (22 April 2009). "Have I Got News for You internet spin-off to bridge TV run". BroadcastNow . Retrieved 28 April 2010.In April, a Spanish woman broke the world record for living alone in a cave after spending five hundred days seventy metres below the earth's surface. Have I Got Unbroadcastable News for You (1995) consisted of a special straight-to-video episode of the series featuring guests Eddie Izzard, Richard Wilson, and a surprise appearance from Germaine Greer. a b "A lot more news for you: News 2007: Chortle: The UK Comedy Guide". Chortle. 11 April 2007 . Retrieved 19 February 2017.

Have I Got News for You started broadcasting a video podcast, The Inevitable Internet Spin-off, on 13 April 2007. [18] It was initially planned to run for six series, from series 33 to 38, taking it to the end of 2009. Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me... «Night Listeners". Nightlisteners.com. 13 May 2009. Archived from the original on 1 December 2009 . Retrieved 28 April 2010. Deayton read languages at New College, Oxford, where he was recruited into the Oxford Revue, performing with them at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. This led to the creation of the parody band The Hee Bee Gee Bees in 1980, with the songs written by Richard Curtis and Philip Pope. Their best-selling single "Meaningless Songs" (plus the B-side "Posing in the Moonlight") was a parody of the falsetto style of countless disco hits by the Bee Gees. The programme aired on BBC Two for its first ten years, before moving to BBC One in 2000 for later series. In 2003, extended episodes, with additional content, titled Have I Got a Little Bit More News for You, later simply Have I Got a Bit More News for You began broadcasting the following Saturdays on BBC Two, later moved to Mondays on BBC One and returned to BBC Two in 2021. Subsequent repeats are named Have I Got Old News for You or Have I Got a Bit More Old News for You. The programme gained recognition for its performance on British television and comedy, receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2011 British Comedy Awards [5] and the 2016 BAFTA Television Award for Comedy and Comedy Entertainment Programme.

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Top 10 Have I Got News For You guest hosts: Damian Lewis to Boris Johnson". Metro. DMG Media. 9 November 2012 . Retrieved 2 March 2017. Classic Battles & Bust-Ups (1996) featured three full-length episodes featuring the Tub of Lard, Paula Yates and Germaine Greer, among others. Have I Got News for You, Volume 1 (1993) was a compilation that contained clips from the first five series plus the complete 1992 election night special. It was also released on Video CD. In May 2019, the BBC had to postpone an episode as it featured Heidi Allen, then leader of the political party Change UK, who was standing in that month's European elections; it was broadcast the following month. [31] After the rounds are completed, the host then gives out the scores, denoting which team is the winner. If time permits, the episode may feature a bonus round called the "Caption Competition", in which panellists are given a single or two pictures to make amusing captions to. The episode always concludes with the host making an additional set of satirical, fictional comedic news stories, accompanied by a picture to provide the joke; in rare cases, a video clip is used.

In May, Plymouth City Council cut down a large number of trees to stop people having public sex in the area. Each episode consists of a general format that is largely unchanged since the programme first premiered. All begin with an introduction by the host, who gives out a set of satirical, fictional comedic news stories that are often accompanied with a video clip from news programmes or general public recordings to provide the joke, followed by introductions of the episode's guest panellists. After this, the episode focuses on four rounds that generally follow the same arrangement: fascinating facts about Have I Got News for You". Radio Times. 6 October 2017 . Retrieved 7 November 2021.

In August, Edinburgh Zoo admitted that a koala bear escaped in 2015 and was on the loose for seven months before being captured on a farm sixteen miles away. Alexander Armstrong Went Wild at Roman Polanski's Party - Have I Got News for You - BBC Comedy Extra on YouTube In August, a branch of DFS in Wolverhampton issued a lifetime ban to a man who had been sleeping in the store every night for seven months.