Based on the week’s news and fronted by guest hosts, this extended version of the satirical news quiz features more of the stuff that wouldn't fit into the regular programme.
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Series 33
8 episodes · 2007
Series 34
9 episodes · 2007
Series 35
8 episodes · 2008
Series 36
10 episodes · 2008
Series 37
8 episodes · 2009
Series 38
9 episodes · 2009
Series 39
9 episodes · 2010
Series 40
10 episodes · 2010
Series 41
1990
Hilarious, totally-irreverent, near-slanderous political quiz show, based mainly on news stories from the last week or so, that leaves no party, personality or action unscathed in pursuit of laughs.
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2005
Mock the Week is a British topical celebrity panel game hosted by Dara Ó Briain. The game is influenced by improvised topical stand-up comedy, with several rounds requiring players to deliver answers on unexpected subjects on the spur of the moment.
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1996
The World's Fakest News Team tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and pop culture.
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2005
The Colbert Report is an American satirical late night television program. It stars political humorist Stephen Colbert, a former correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. The Colbert Report is a spin-off from and counterpart to The Daily Show that comments on politics and the media in a similar way. The show focuses on a fictional anchorman character named Stephen Colbert, played by his real-life namesake. The character, described by Colbert as a "well-intentioned, poorly informed, high-status idiot", is a caricature of televised political pundits.
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1975
A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, and features performances by a musical guest.
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1984
Spitting Image is an award winning British satirical puppet show, created by Peter Fluck, Roger Law and Martin Lambie-Nairn. The series was produced by Spitting Image Productions for Central Independent Television over 18 series which aired on the ITV from 1984 to 1996. The series was nominated and won numerous awards during its run including 10 BAFTA Awards, including one for editing in 1989, and even won two Emmy Awards in 1985 and 1986 in the Popular Arts Category. The series featured puppet caricatures of celebrities famous during the 1980s and 1990s, including British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and fellow Tory politicians, American president Ronald Reagan, and the British Royal Family. The Series was the first to caricature the Queen mother.
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1997
Investigative reporter Chris Morris puts modern Britain under the spotlight, and smacks the issues of the day till they bleed. He tackles weighty issues including animals, drugs, sex and skewered celebrities and politicians alike - and in a later episode in 2001, paedophiles.
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1993
This Hour Has 22 Minutes is a weekly Canadian television comedy that airs on CBC Television. Launched in 1993 during Canada's 35th general election, the show focuses on Canadian politics, combining news parody, sketch comedy and satirical editorials. Originally featuring Cathy Jones, Rick Mercer, Greg Thomey and Mary Walsh, the series featured satirical sketches of the weekly news and Canadian political events. The show's format is a mock news program, intercut with comic sketches, parody commercials and humorous interviews of public figures. The on-location segments are frequently filmed with slanted camera angles.
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2004
Presenter Jimmy Carr oversees a panel of top-name celebrities in this year end quiz show where they compete to see who can answer the most questions correctly.
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2005
Set in the corridors of power and spin, the Minister for Social Affairs is continually harassed by Number 10's policy enforcer and dependent on his not-so-reliable team of civil servants.
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1980
Satirical sitcom set in the office of a UK Cabinet minister, Jim Hacker MP, who struggles with Civil Service bureaucracy and political machinations as he tries to get on with government business.
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1987
The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.
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1969
A British sketch comedy series with the shows being composed of surreality, risqué or innuendo-laden humour, sight gags and observational sketches without punchlines.
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2003
A zany comedy show with Matt Lucas and David Walliams, featuring characters from all over Little Britain.
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1986
James Hacker MP the Government's bumbling minister for Administrative Affairs is propelled along the corridors of power to the very pinnacle of politics - No. 10. Could this have possibly have been managed by his trusted Permanent Private Secretary, the formidably political Sir Humphrey Appleby who must move to the “Top Job” in Downing Street to support him, together with his much put upon PPS Bernard Wolley. What could possibly go wrong?
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2007
A comedic panel show featuring team captains Lee Mack and David Mitchell plus two guests per side, hosted by Rob Brydon (formerly Angus Deayton). Each person must reveal embarrassing facts and outrageous lies during a series of different rounds including "Home Truths", "This Is My..." and "Quickfire Lies". It is up to the opposing team to tell tall tales from fantastic facts.
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2014
The free world is in danger, and only one man can help. Jack Decker has sworn to defend America from foreign terrorists regardless of which spineless president is in charge. This is Decker: The Series.
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1994
A spoof of the British news — including ridiculous stories, patronising vox pops, offensively hard-hitting research and a sports presenter clearly struggling for metaphors. Adapted from Radio 4 series 'On the Hour'.
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1950
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
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1996
Never Mind the Buzzcocks is a comedy panel game show with a pop and rock music theme. The show is infamous for its dry, sarcastic humour and scathing, provocative attacks on the pop industry.
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9 episodes · 2011
Series 42
10 episodes · 2011
Series 43
9 episodes · 2012
Series 44
10 episodes · 2012
Series 45
9 episodes · 2013
Series 46
10 episodes · 2013
Series 47
9 episodes · 2014
Series 48
10 episodes · 2014
Series 49
9 episodes · 2015
Series 50
10 episodes · 2015
Series 51
9 episodes · 2016
Series 52
10 episodes · 2016
Series 53
9 episodes · 2017
Series 54
10 episodes · 2017
Series 55
9 episodes · 2018
Series 56
10 episodes · 2018
Series 57
9 episodes · 2019
Series 58
10 episodes · 2019
Series 59
9 episodes · 2020
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this series was the first not to be performed in front of a live studio audience and was instead recorded remotely from the homes of the assorted presenters and panellists.
Series 60
10 episodes · 2020
Even though COVID-19 remained at large, Series 60 saw the show return to the studio with both the panellists and a reduced studio audience observing social distancing rules.
Series 61
9 episodes · 2021
Series 62
10 episodes · 2021
Series 63
9 episodes · 2022
Series 64
7 episodes · 2022
Ordinarily, the second series within any given year of Have I Got A Bit More News For You has 10 episodes but the planned start of this series happened to coincide with Queen Elizabeth II's death and subsequent state funeral, thereby truncating this particular run to just seven episodes.
Series 65
10 episodes · 2023
Series 66
10 episodes · 2023
Series 67
10 episodes · 2024
Series 68
10 episodes · 2024
Series 69
10 episodes · 2025
