Have I Got News for You 11 appearances as host Alexander Armstrong 7 appearances as host Kirsty Young 6 appearances as host Jeremy Clarkson Jack Dee 4 appearances as host Boris Johnson Dara Ó Briain 3 appearances as host William Hague Des Lynam 2 appearances as host Michael Aspel Bill Bailey Marcus Brigstocke Julian Clary Martin Clunes John Sergeant Ann Widdecombe 1 appearance as host Ronni Ancona Clive Anderson Sanjeev Bhaskar Brian Blessed Jeremy Bowen Jo Brand Gyles Brandreth Fern Britton Rob Brydon Michael Buerk Jimmy Carr Adrian Chiles Charlotte Church Joan Collins Robin Cook Ronnie Corbett Hugh Dennis Omid Djalili Greg Dyke Anna Ford Bruce Forsyth John Humphrys Lorraine Kelly Charles Kennedy Neil Kinnock Chris Langham Jane Leeves Damian Lewis	Sean Lock Lee Mack Richard Madeley Andrew Marr Sir Trevor McDonald Alistair McGowan Paul Merton Nicholas Parsons Gordon Ramsay Anne Robinson Moira Stuart Liza Tarbuck Chris Tarrant Carol Vorderman

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Other television shows based on the Have I Got News for You format

Similar television shows based on the Have I Got News for You format exist in other countries:

• Dutch comedian Raoul Heertje appeared on the original Have I Got News for You in May 1995. A year later he became team captain in the newly launched Dutch version of the show: Dit was het nieuws ("This was the news"). The show gradually developed into a very successful programme. Dutch Wikipedia info
• In Finland a show called Uutisvuoto (literally "newsleak"; the pun works as well in both languages) has been aired since 1998.
• In Australia, the Doug Anthony All Stars lead singer and comedian Paul McDermott hosted Good News Week (GNW), first on ABC TV and later on Network Ten from 1996 to 2000 and 2008. GNW varied from Have I Got News for You in that there were three team members per team, instead of the usual two. The series was also notable for the number of UK-based comedians that were panellists on the show, including Ed Byrne. The Ten version also had a weekend broadcast, Good News Weekend, taking its format from Never Mind the Buzzcocks. In 2001, the company behind the recently cancelled GNW developed a similar program called The Glass House on ABC TV. This show was cancelled in October 2006. In March 2006, a music-based show of a similar format, entitled Spicks and Specks, started on ABC, hosted by Adam Hills, and the teams being captained by New Zealand comedian Alan Brough and Triple J radio DJ Myf Walhurst. The show started its third season in 2008.
• Sveriges Television of Sweden aired their version of the show called Snacka om nyheter between 1995 and 2003.
• Denmark briefly had a version of the show.
• In Norway the Norwegian Broadcasting Company broadcasts the show Nytt På Nytt (literally: "The News Anew"). It is one of the most popular TV shows in the country with 1.3 million viewers every week.^{[citation needed]}
• Loosely based on the theme of Have I Got News for You, ITV in the United Kingdom aired a show in 2004 called Bognor or Bust, also fronted by Angus Deayton, which discusses current affairs.
• In Israel, a similar show called "Mishak Makhur" ran for 54 episodes.
• In Ireland, RTÉ made one pilot episode of a licensed Have I Got News for You clone, with Dermot Morgan as the presenter sometime in the early 1990s. It was never named or made into a full series. However, a topical news and current affairs quiz appeared entitled Don't Feed the Gondolas, which was comparable to a cross between Have I Got News for You and Never Mind the Buzzcocks.
• Germany had a version called "7 Tage, 7 Köpfe" (literally "Seven Days, Seven Heads")
• Inspired by Have I Got News for You, Pakistan's News, Views & Confused went on air on one of Pakistan’s leading TV channels, AAJ TV from April 11, 2007. The show is hosted by TV personality and journalist Fasi Zaka and co-hosted by eccentric journalist and writer, Nadeem F. Paracha and fashion journalist, Mohsin Sayeed.
• Iceland had a version called Þetta Helst (Translation: "Top Stories") in the mid-nineties, which aired on RÚV (The Icelandic National Broadcasting Service).

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Episode list

• See List of Have I Got News For You episodes

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References

• Have I Got News for You: The Shameless Cash-in Book, BBC Books, 1994, ISBN 0-563-37111-0
• Have I Got 1997 for You, BBC Books, 1996, ISBN 0-563-38783-1

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External links

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:

Have I Got News For You

• Have I Got News for You at bbc.co.uk
• Have I Got News for You at Hat Trick Productions
• Have I Got News for You at UKGameshows.com
• Have I Got News for You at the British Film Institute
• Have I Got News for You at the Internet Movie Database

Articles

• "I Hope the Lawyers Are Getting All of This!" - The Have I Got News For You Story. Matthew Rudd, June 2005. Off the Telly.
• "Deayton in the lion's den". Jonathan Duffy, 24 May 2002. BBC News Online.