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VMPhil 10 May 2019 8:55pm

How far in advance are HIGNFY guests booked?

I expect many weeks in advance, before the series starts.

But if they’d booked Danny Baker, they would have easily dropped him and drafted in one of the regular comedians at short notice.

I'm wondering if the producers thought it likely that the European elections wouldn't go ahead and thought it safe to book an MP.

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Andrew Founding member 10 May 2019 9:01pm

Watch it all kick off on Twitter in 5, 4, 3...

The Daily Mail and Express will have a field day

JK

JKDerry 10 May 2019 9:02pm

Virgin Media are truly crap with their EPG. It has not updated with the change in schedule. I have Virgin Tivo and Freesat, and the Freesat EPG has updated the new schedule, whilst Virgin Media still has Have I Got News For You on at 9pm.

VM

VMPhil 10 May 2019 9:02pm

Andrew posted:

Watch it all kick off on Twitter in 5, 4, 3...

The Daily Mail and Express will have a field day

Panel show CANCELLED after 30 YEARS due to shocking reason - here's why

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Andrew Founding member 10 May 2019 9:07pm

I did like the continuity

“If you’re tuning in for HIGNFY, we can’t bring you that tonight, but Mrs Brown’s Boys is now in half an hour...”

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dvboy 10 May 2019 9:08pm

JKDerry posted:

Virgin Media are truly crap with their EPG. It has not updated with the change in schedule. I have Virgin Tivo and Freesat, and the Freesat EPG has updated the new schedule, whilst Virgin Media still has Have I Got News For You on at 9pm.

Virgin EPG doesn't update live.

RE

Rexogamer 10 May 2019 9:09pm

WILTY is fine; I have no interest in seeing MBB... although this does make me think that things will be a bit whacky after the news.

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Steve in Pudsey 10 May 2019 9:12pm

Sorry everyone. The BBC have pulled tonight’s edition of #HIGNFY - no, we didn’t book Danny Baker. We booked Heidi Allen, a member of a party no-one knows the name of (not even the people in it), because the Euro elections, which nobody wants, may or may not be happening.
Sorry.
— Have I Got News For You (@haveigotnews) May 10, 2019

UK

UKnews 10 May 2019 9:13pm

Andrew posted:

Watch it all kick off on Twitter in 5, 4, 3...

The Daily Mail and Express will have a field day

Replies to the announcement from HNIGFY treating it with all the understanding of the nuance and subtleties around the issue that you’d expect. Especially around who produces the show and should have been aware of the rules around elections

- which of course all now comes back as the BBC being blamed....

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Rexogamer 10 May 2019 9:16pm

They probably should've not had the MP just in case but meh

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Inspector Sands 10 May 2019 9:16pm

Andrew posted:

But if they’d booked Danny Baker, they would have easily dropped him and drafted in one of the regular comedians at short notice.

If that had been thge case I doubt he'd have wanted to appear. Guests have pulled out at the last minute a few times, famously Roy Hattlesly

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Steve in Pudsey 10 May 2019 9:17pm

Although as a reply to the announcement tweet points out, Farage was on QT last night, what's the difference?

(May 2019)