HIGNFY had an odd intro with the announcer saying "10 years, has it really been 10 years" almost as as lead-in to a pre-title sequence they sometimes do but there was nothing and no acknowledgment I noticed during the show. I'm sure some knew the reference...just seemed a little odd, late edit to the show maybe?
I was at the recording, the ten-year anniversary of guest hosts wasn't mentioned at any point, so it wasn't a late edit (well, it
was
a late edit because HIGNFY always is, but you get what I mean...)
The Radio Times made quite a big deal of the ten year anniversary of guests hosts on their Friday listings and implied it would be marked in the show, I guess perhaps the announcer had read that? It would seem an odd thing for HIGNFY to mark. It isn't the first time RT-writings have crept into continuity - I remember they mentioned one episode of EastEnders was the 5,000th but in fact it was nowhere near. They published an apology the week after but it was mentioned on the ident into the show.
Slightly surprised they didn't get Angus Deayton back to guest host the 10th anniversary of his departure - he's done other BBC stuff since so (assuming he'd have been up for doing it) it should have been possible.
Slightly surprised they didn't get Angus Deayton back to guest host the 10th anniversary of his departure - he's done other BBC stuff since so (assuming he'd have been up for doing it) it should have been possible.
Depends if the other two would've been up for it & not thrown their dummies out of the pram?
Slightly surprised they didn't get Angus Deayton back to guest host the 10th anniversary of his departure - he's done other BBC stuff since so (assuming he'd have been up for doing it) it should have been possible.
Depends if the other two would've been up for it & not thrown their dummies out of the pram?
I'm sure they'd have been fine with it. After all, one of the reasons Angus was sacked was because those two had just been given a lifetime's worth of joke material at Angus's expense.
If he did guest present, it wouldn't work. The programme would just become 30 minutes of jokes about Deyton wangling his way back to the programme, rather than any topical / satirical jokes relevant to the current news. Just like it was on his last show.
I'm sure they'd have been fine with it. After all, one of the reasons Angus was sacked was because those two had just been given a lifetime's worth of joke material at Angus's expense.
Wasn't the rumour at the time that Paul and Ian had never gotten along well with Angus and were more than happy to see the back of him? As I recall the on-screen material at Angus's expense was pretty vitriolic.
I heard the same rumours, but I cant see them letting that get in the way of giving Deyton another public flogging. Hence why I think they'd be up for it, but the producers probably not.