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 Have I Got News For You   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC it is a comedy programme rather a serious game show: the banter between guests and the sardonic remarks are more than the scores which are only ever referred to.
It announced in June 2003 that HIGNFY would to use guest hosts as the average had increased from 6 million in Deayton's series to 7 million.
When asked if it was for Rushdie to do a quizshow they first refused but when they heard it HIGNFY they changed their minds because they the show.
www.freeglossary.com /Have_I_Got_News_For_You   (1080 words)

  
 Have I Got News For You : HIGNFY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
HIGNFY, as it is commonly known, began on BBC2 on September 28, 1990, and transferred to BBC1 in October 2000.
Nearly two series after Deayton's departure it was announced in June 2003 that in future HIGNFY would use guest hosts on a permanent basis, as the average audience had increased from 6 million in Deayton's last series to 7 million.
It uses material from the wikipedia article Have I Got News For You : HIGNFY.
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 Have I Got News For You   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Have I Got News For You is a UK television panel game on the subject of news politics current affairs.
HIGNFY as it is commonly abbreviated began BBC2 on September 28 1990 and transferred to BBC1 in October 2000.
Series 27 in the spring 2004 will continue to use guest hosts Greg Dyke the first to be named although persist that Alexander Armstrong is being lined up as the permanent host.
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 Have I Got News For You? - UKGameshows
After this, sometimes there's a special round relating to something that's happened in the news or to one of the celebs that has joined them that episode.
It has been revealed quite recently that the players are shown the clips and the questions (but not the answers) before the show, which although ruins some the spontaneity doesn't really matter too much because the questions act as a catalyst for the humour.
HIGNFY came fourth in a 2005 poll by PruHealth to find the TV programme that "lifts people's spirits" the most, behind The Good Life, Only Fools And Horses and Friends.
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This new service, christened newsbot, is very similar to the service offered by Google except that it offers greater personalization.
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 BORIS ON HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU
Although he has, like all others, suffered at the hands of the HIGNFY regulars- especially Ian Hislop- Boris is a sought-after guest.
His effusion extended even to nature- Boris was forced to recant the story of a diseased tree of his that destroyed two trees when it collapsed.
Boris got it wrong (his full name is Alexander Boris Depfeffel Johnson, incidentally).
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 Have I Got News For You Regional, Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Charlotte Church.net - Have I Got News For You Feature on the episode (9 May 2003) in which Charlotte Church was the guest presenter.
BBC: Charlotte has got news for us Charlotte Church makes her debut as the youngest ever competitor on the comedy quiz show.
BBC: Elton has News for You Sir Elton John is confirmed as a panellist on an edition of the BBC One quiz.
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 Have I Got News For You   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
BBC: Charlotte has got news for us - Charlotte Church makes her debut as the youngest ever competitor on the comedy quiz show.
BBC: Elton has News for You - Sir Elton John is confirmed as a panellist on an edition of the BBC One quiz.
Charlotte Church.net - Have I Got News For You - Feature on the episode (9 May 2003) in which Charlotte Church was the guest presenter.
www.topiasearch.com /Regional/Europe/UnitedKingdom/ArtsandEntertainment/Television/Programmes/Comedy/HaveIGotNewsForYou   (397 words)

  
 Have I Got News For You   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Summary: Presented chronologically, The Very Best of Have I Got News for You is a massive three-and-a-quarter-hour compilation of many of the funniest and all the most famous moments from the first 12 years of the BBC comedy satire quiz show.
On the DVD: Have I Got News For You features a commentary with Ian Hislop and Paul Merton in which, rather than play for comedy, they talk interestingly about their memories of the various episodes.
The sound is functional stereo and the excellent picture is encoded to switch automatically from 4:3 to anamorphic 16:9 when HIGNFY moved to widescreen.
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 "Have I Got News for You" (1990)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
This is a topical news quiz which is never short of hilarious in its biting satire and ceaseless wit.
In the chair is Angus Deyton, and competing are two teams, each made up of a regular captain and a different guest each week.
Clicking the button on the left will take you through a new improved step-by-step process.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0098820   (426 words)

  
 OFF THE TELLY: Reviews/1999/Have I Got News For You
Hislop has described HIGNFY as a pleasant verbal joust, and the sense of membership to a gentlemen's club certainly pervades the programme these days.
Tonight's guests (Lord Deedes and Will Self) were cut of typical HIGNFY cloth - Deedes: slightly eccentric and never-quite-sure of what programme he's on, Self: understanding of the rules and keen to display his ability to play comedic hard ball with the big boys.
None the less, in the face of its downmarket competitors, HIGNFY has stuck rigidly to the format it has made its own, resisting the urge to undermine for the sake of a cheap gag.
www.offthetelly.co.uk /reviews/1999/hignfy.htm   (491 words)

  
 Rockin' on without Microsoft | CNET News.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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 Charlotte Church Fans.com  - Charlotte Press - Have I Got News For You   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
SCHOOLGIRL singer Charlotte Church is to take one of the biggest risks of her career, by appearing on TV's Have I Got News For You.
Charlotte Church is to appear on the BBC comedy quiz Have I Got News For You.
The 16-year-old is set to make her debut appearance on cult BBC show Have I Got News For You, and the producers think she'll be more than up to the challenge of being its youngest-ever guest.
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 Have I Got News For You   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Have I Got News for You is an hysterically popular satirical British show.
Shown weekly on BBC2 its irreverent view of current affairs often brings it into controversy, as evidenced by this rib tickling excerpt from one of their shows, on McDonald's and McLibel.
You order it and it comes walking towards you - in a few years time it will have a little voice box so it can speak to you as you're eating it - "been drinking coffee have we sir?"
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 BBC - h2g2 - Have I Got News For You-The TV Series. - A841772
Have I Got News For You is a panel game based on current affairs, has been running for ten years, and remains the most popular game of its kind on the television (The radio has its own version, called "The News Quiz", which is older by fifteen years).
The two teams are played a clip with no sound, and they have to guess what recent news story the clip represents.
Have I Got News For You is still one of the most loved quizzes on the television, but as Angus once quipped: "And to all the viewers watching us at home, Matron will be bringing you your medication shortly."
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/classic/A841772   (968 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - Angus Deayton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
TV personality Angus Deayton is to star in a new BBC comedy less than a year after he was sacked from Have I Got News For You amid disclosures about his private life.
HAVE I Got News For You star Paul Merton said losing Angus Deayton as the show's host was "not a big deal" - and admitted he never liked him anyway.
SINGING star Charlotte Church is to appear as a guest presenter on the new series of satirical quiz Have I Got News For You.
news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=620&format=atom   (486 words)

  
 Wired News: This Avatar's Got News for You
Plus, she comes at a fraction of the cost needed to keep most anchors behind the news desk.
Her name is Seonaid (pronounced "Shona"), and she's a 28-year-old cat-loving U2 fan who reads the news at the Scottish government's website, the Scottish Executive.
The site recently unveiled a revamped version of Seonaid (which stands for Scottish Executive online news and information distributor), complete with a new accent developed by Edinburgh firm Rhetorical, a stylish hairdo and a designer wardrobe.
www.wired.com /news/culture/0,1284,55446,00.html   (848 words)

  
 Nick Denton: Have I got news for you
Nick Denton: Have I got news for you
This is a transcript of 'Have I got news for you', which is the British version of Politically Incorrect, but funnier.
The host, a man called Angus Deayton for whom the word sardonic was invented, was recently caught out by the tabloids.
www.nickdenton.org /000720.html   (104 words)

  
 NEA: We've Got News for You (News Activities, That Is!)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
NEA: We've Got News for You (News Activities, That Is!)
We've Got News for You (News Activities, That Is!)
Encourage students to dig deeper into the newspapers to determine how much total space is devoted to different news stories (students could use rulers to measure "inches" of copy); to discover what topics are discussed on editorial pages; to find out how many front page news articles include photographs; and so on.
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 Tanto Metro & Devonte - Got News For You   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Tanto Metro & Devonte - Got News For You
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 Amazon.co.uk: DVD: Have I Got News For You [1990]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Presented chronologically, The Very Best of Have I Got News for You is a massive three-and-a-quarter-hour compilation of many of the funniest and all the most famous moments from the first 12 years of the BBC comedy satire quiz show.
There is also trivi text, trailers, Terry Wogan trying to confine HIGNFY to room 101, a newsnight documentary on why people appear as guests and a selection of celebrities voicing their views on HIGNFY.
The manner in which the news has repeated itself over the years is fascinating and maybe quite alarming (Iraq, anyone?) The commentary from Merton and Hislop is fantastic, they are genuinely interested in reminiscing about the old shows, are very insightful and (unintentionally?) hilarious.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006RHUB   (1413 words)

  
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Harry made the big bucks leap to Sky TV and tried to invent new characters but nothing really catches on and the absence of former collaborators Paul Whitehouse and Kathy Burke is sorely missed.
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 Has Google got news for you - vnunet.com
Google has launched its own news website, gathering top stories from over 4,000 English language sources ranging from the New York Times to the Financial Times and the BBC.
Google News is accessible through a tab on the search engine's start page and will pull regularly updated real-time news from global sites arranged under categories such as World, Business, Entertainment, Technology and Sports.
Each story's ranking is based on how recently it has been published, the number of articles in different publications that cover the topic and the popularity of the news source.
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 Articles - Have I Got News For You   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
HIGNFY began on BBC2 on September 28, 1990 and transferred to BBC1 in October 2000.
The "Spinning Headlines" round, in which the panelists must identify and comment on the stories of the week from the relevant, sufficiently pun-filled tabloid headlines.
Astute viewers will notice that Merton's other major point-winning tactic is a tendency to jump in and answer questions that were actually addressed to the other team.
www.gaple.com /articles/Have_I_Got_News_For_You   (3334 words)

  
 Komma Punt Log - briljant en bescheiden: Have I got sneers for you
De presentator van mijn favoriete BBC-programma, "Have I got news for you?", Angus Deayton (foto) - ook bekend als sidekick van Rowan Atkinson bij diens liveoptredens - schijnt zich onlangs een ware upperclass Brit betoond te hebben door zich met drugs en een prostituée te hebben vermaakt.
Maar degenen die weten hoe scherp de humor is in "Have I got news for you?" hebben al een vermoeden.
Het vermakelijke verslag van die opname is hier te lezen.
log.komma.net /archives/000077.html   (122 words)

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