The BBC is developing a sports based spin-off of long running panel show Have I Got News For You, currently called Have I Got Sports For You
Have I Got News For You stands as one of the longest running panel shows on television. Starting in 1990, team captains Paul Merton and Private Eye editor Ian Hislop are still with the show 34 years later. Classic moments include the show where Roy Hattersley was replaced at the last minute with a tub of lard, the show which immediately followed a scandal involving original host Angus Deayton, prompting Hislop to bring in a copy of News Of The World only for Merton to upstage him by getting the front cover printed up as a t-shirt. Then, the legendary 2008 edition hosted by Brian Blessed.
The BBC is currently in the process of developing a spin-off entitled Have I Got Sports For You. It will...
Have I Got News For You stands as one of the longest running panel shows on television. Starting in 1990, team captains Paul Merton and Private Eye editor Ian Hislop are still with the show 34 years later. Classic moments include the show where Roy Hattersley was replaced at the last minute with a tub of lard, the show which immediately followed a scandal involving original host Angus Deayton, prompting Hislop to bring in a copy of News Of The World only for Merton to upstage him by getting the front cover printed up as a t-shirt. Then, the legendary 2008 edition hosted by Brian Blessed.
The BBC is currently in the process of developing a spin-off entitled Have I Got Sports For You. It will...
- 3/1/2024
- by Jake Godfrey
- Film Stories
ITV has hit a mighty milestone - first launched on September 22, 1955, the home of The X Factor, Downton Abbey and more is 60 years old today.
In its six decades, ITV has produced some of the biggest, best and most memorable TV shows in British broadcasting history.
But while everyone else is talking up Gladiators, Coronation Street and Blind Date, we wanted to take this opportunity to celebrate a few of the channel's less celebrated gems.
1. The Krypton Factor (1977-1995)
"Television's Toughest Quiz!" boomed the announcer back when the show launched in 1977. And even almost forty years later, nothing has quite matched Granada's brutal search for a UK superperson since.
Resembling a cross between a byzantine parlour game and a Soviet-era punishment for shoplifting, each week saw four more contestants subjected to a variety of cruel and unusual tests – from terrifying memory tests to landing a Boeing 747 (albeit on a simulator).
But worst of all?...
In its six decades, ITV has produced some of the biggest, best and most memorable TV shows in British broadcasting history.
But while everyone else is talking up Gladiators, Coronation Street and Blind Date, we wanted to take this opportunity to celebrate a few of the channel's less celebrated gems.
1. The Krypton Factor (1977-1995)
"Television's Toughest Quiz!" boomed the announcer back when the show launched in 1977. And even almost forty years later, nothing has quite matched Granada's brutal search for a UK superperson since.
Resembling a cross between a byzantine parlour game and a Soviet-era punishment for shoplifting, each week saw four more contestants subjected to a variety of cruel and unusual tests – from terrifying memory tests to landing a Boeing 747 (albeit on a simulator).
But worst of all?...
- 9/22/2015
- Digital Spy
ITV has hit a mighty milestone - first launched on September 22, 1955, the home of The X Factor, Downton Abbey and more is 60 years old today.
In its six decades, ITV has produced some of the biggest, best and most memorable TV shows in British broadcasting history.
But while everyone else is talking up Gladiators, Coronation Street and Blind Date, we wanted to take this opportunity to celebrate a few of the channel's less celebrated gems.
1. The Krypton Factor (1977-1995)
"Television's Toughest Quiz!" boomed the announcer back when the show launched in 1977. And even almost forty years later, nothing has quite matched Granada's brutal search for a UK superperson since.
Resembling a cross between a byzantine parlour game and a Soviet-era punishment for shoplifting, each week saw four more contestants subjected to a variety of cruel and unusual tests – from terrifying memory tests to landing a Boeing 747 (albeit on a simulator).
But worst of all?...
In its six decades, ITV has produced some of the biggest, best and most memorable TV shows in British broadcasting history.
But while everyone else is talking up Gladiators, Coronation Street and Blind Date, we wanted to take this opportunity to celebrate a few of the channel's less celebrated gems.
1. The Krypton Factor (1977-1995)
"Television's Toughest Quiz!" boomed the announcer back when the show launched in 1977. And even almost forty years later, nothing has quite matched Granada's brutal search for a UK superperson since.
Resembling a cross between a byzantine parlour game and a Soviet-era punishment for shoplifting, each week saw four more contestants subjected to a variety of cruel and unusual tests – from terrifying memory tests to landing a Boeing 747 (albeit on a simulator).
But worst of all?...
- 9/22/2015
- Digital Spy
Room 101 has been renewed for a 14th series by BBC One.
The long-running comedy programme will keep its three-guest format, which sees celebrities putting forward their case for pet hates to be banished forever.
Frank Skinner will return as host of the show for the third time.
The eight-part series will be recorded on Tuesdays and Thursdays in October at Elstree Studios. It is then expected to air on BBC One in early 2014.
Nick Hancock and then Paul Merton previously hosted the chatshow, which originally saw the host speak to one celebrity guest each week.
It originally ran from 1994 to 2007, before returning with a new format in 2012 with Skinner as host.
Watch a clip from the show below:...
The long-running comedy programme will keep its three-guest format, which sees celebrities putting forward their case for pet hates to be banished forever.
Frank Skinner will return as host of the show for the third time.
The eight-part series will be recorded on Tuesdays and Thursdays in October at Elstree Studios. It is then expected to air on BBC One in early 2014.
Nick Hancock and then Paul Merton previously hosted the chatshow, which originally saw the host speak to one celebrity guest each week.
It originally ran from 1994 to 2007, before returning with a new format in 2012 with Skinner as host.
Watch a clip from the show below:...
- 8/22/2013
- Digital Spy
Room 101 has been renewed for a 13th series. Frank Skinner will return for a second run of the revamped version of the long-running BBC One series, according to Comedy.co.uk. The show was originally hosted by Nick Hancock and then Paul Merton from 1994 to 2007, before it returned in January 2012 with Skinner as host. However, the series saw a new format, where three guests per episode (more)...
- 7/31/2012
- by By Tom Eames
- Digital Spy
Frank Skinner's new Room 101 series will relaunch later this month, it has been confirmed. The BBC talk show, which bowed out in 2006 with Paul Merton as host, will be shown in a pre-watershed BBC One slot. Nick Hancock hosted the original BBC Two series from 1994 until 1997, before Merton took over the reins in 1999. Guests include Peep Show star Robert Webb, new Countdown host Nick Hewer, MasterChef's Gregg Wallace and comic Sarah Millican. Meanwhile, Who Wants to be a Millionaire?'s Chris Tarrant, rock legend Alice Cooper, ex-EastEnders actor Larry Lamb and politician John Prescott will also appear. Skinner said in a statement: "It's recently become clear to me that people are at their most articulate and passionate (more)...
- 1/5/2012
- by By Paul Millar
- Digital Spy
Frank Skinner has been named as the host of a revamped version of Room 101. Hat Trick Productions announced today that the popular comedy chatshow, which last aired in 2007, would shortly be returning to TV screens with the 54-year-old funnyman at the helm. Room 101, which sees celebrity guests discuss their pet hates and attempt to banish them for good, debuted on BBC Two back in 1994 and ran for a total of 11 series. Original host Nick Hancock fronted the format until 1997, before Paul Merton took over a retooled version in 1999. A return date for (more)...
- 8/20/2011
- by By Daniel Sperling
- Digital Spy
Lionel Blair and Una Stubbs will reunite in a special edition of Give Us A Clue, as part of David Walliams's 24 Hour Panel People. As part of Comic Relief, Walliams will perform in a panel show marathon, which will see a host of classic programmes resurrected and reinvigorated alongside current favourites. Blair and Stubbs will be joined by Walliams and Christopher Biggins for their segment of the event. Other highlights will see David Frost and Lloyd Grossman return to Through The Keyhole, Nick Hancock hosting sports quiz They Think It's All Over, and Clive Anderson, Tony Slattery (more)...
- 3/2/2011
- by By Naomi Rainey
- Digital Spy
Comic Nick Hancock has been given a six-month driving ban after being caught speeding in Scotland. The They Think It's All Over host was driving at 95mph in a Volkswagen Touareg on the M90 between Perth and Edinburgh in August. It was Hancock's fourth breach of the law in three years and he was disqualified under totting-up rules, reports the BBC. He was also fined £400 by Perth District (more)...
- 12/4/2008
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
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