As Live Production: Studio Based Factual Programme

My Studio Based Factual Programme is Have I Got News For You. The show is based on the week's news, whats been happening socially and politically. As a concept this show was an inspiration to my regional idea that me and Jack pitched 'Politically Incorrect'. The series is fronted by guest hosts and features two regular team captains, Paul Merton and Ian Hislop.


Each week the show invites two guests to cast a cynical eye over the week's news, resulting in a fast flow of anarchic, spontaneous and hugely entertaining wit and humour., mocking whats going on currently. Whilst this is comedy yin a news format, it is sill factual, studio based entertainment.

Guests typically represent the world of politics, comedy, show-business and journalism, and are often themselves particularly newsworthy participants. The final touches of 'Have I Got News For You' are put together only hours before recording, allowing guests to comment on the late-breaking news stories of the day, so the show will be fresh and up to date before going on air. It is still timeless, and despite being current affairs is put on repeat for channels like Dave. Watching some of those old episodes is like a mini-history lesson, taking its audience back a few years to memorable moments in politics.

The show is no stranger to controversy and has even had guests such as Boris Johnson and John Prescott come on and boy did they raise controversy:

It has also had an uprising n controversy for the impact its had on women. Many women have come out as saying they feel that the show isn't inclusive to women and as a result less women have been broadcast on the show. But this goes a lot deeper than television, it goes into politics and the amount of women that are actually represented in Westminster. "In short: is there really no female politician, in all Westminster, even a fraction as gittish as Boris Johnson, a regular on HIGNFY since 1998? And if not, what’s wrong with them?" (Bennett, 2018). From this quote and the rest of the article I gather that many women feel they are underrepresented in the show.
References:

Bennett, C. 2018. The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/08/have-i-got-news-for-you-not-really-we-already-know-men-make-the-best-clowns

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