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HIGNFY Series 48 - BBC1 Fridays 9pm
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'More News' is on Mondays at 10:35pm
The popular news quiz returns, with team captains Paul Merton and Ian Hislop, guest host Jennifer Saunders and guest panellists Armando Iannucci and Peter Bone MP
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Coming on straight after the far funnier WILTY doesn't do this show any favours.
Looks like the Shepherds Bush Paedo club managed to get most tickets for this show.
Surely the audience reaction was disapproval at the hated name of Savile being invoked for a trivial joke, not disapproval at his being mocked? Or were you yourself making a joke?
Oh boy:o
They were mocking the mention of Savile, not the joke.
The questioning of Peter Bone over the wages he allegedly refused to pay seemed to come out of nowhere. I don't think it was unfair that it was brought up but until that point, everyone seemed to be getting along and so it jarred when he was suddenly put under scrutiny.
I won't be watching next week with Sue Perkins presenting.
WILTY regularly makes me laugh whereas this raises 1 or 2 laughs at most
At £40,000 a programme to the increasingly smug Hislop and disinterested Merton,together with the majority of rubbish guests/so called comedians?? and presenters, viewers are hardly getting value for money !
I'm being critical now, because I'm confident we'll have better episodes later.
Think they should have had a 'Less News' version for this episode. They could have fitted all of the funny (well, okay, 'vaguely humorous') bits into a five minute show, and saved us all 25 mins...
And I'm sure Labour supporters will be glad virtually everything about the Conservative Conference was on the defection and the not-really-sex scandal. Was the script written last Sunday?
I loved that bit .
the greedy toff deserved to get cornered on that , not that he gave a sh1t .
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And he's paying his wife £45000...sorry, WE'RE paying his wife £45000...
Would it not make more sense for you to stop watching?
Demanding cancellation because YOU don't like it is absurdly arrogant.
WTF?
Does this mean that even the BBC agree that the episode was as crap as many posters on here think?
They don't put up on I-Player until after the Monday episode generally. This places trashing of the show is always at odds with the actual viewing figures, it's an immensely popular show. Cancellation seems as likely as me getting Angelina Jolie to leave Brad Pitt for me.
Haven't watched it myself as I like to wait for the longer version, always seems more nuanced. Oh and Dagenham and the mighty Exeter City was on RadioDevon at the same time.
Glad I was not the only one who thought this.
I used to love this show but it seems to have lost it's sparkle.
The problem with picking a permanent host is if they're rubbish, you're stuck with them for at least a series (or probably two, if the host is given a 1 year contract). By the time you make a change (and there's no guarantee it will be the right fit the 2nd time either), many may have deserted the show. Despite that, I do agree that it would be good to see Paul and Ian have someone they, as you said, can build up a rapport with.
I think the BBC would pick Kirsty Young, if they were to go down the permanent host route. She's hosted multiple times and she ticks the female quota box. I would want someone else but I believe she'd be high up in the minda of those in charge.