Have I Got News For You

[choux]

I haven't watched this for a long time but viewed last week's on iPlayer. Surprised to see Clive Myrie had chaired 2 episodes a series of late. Even more surprised to see a total disregard of impartiality from Clive who is a journalist of some repute as well as a BBC news presenter of their main news reports. Furthermore, surprised with many examples of bad language - it may be after the watershed but the iPlayer is available 24/7.

The BBC deemed it necessary to pull Mr Myrie from Friday's main evening bulletin. Has HIGNIFY had its day? Sometimes it appears as Groundhog Day as AB's News.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12222835/Clive-Myrie-pulled-News-Ten-fears-impartiality-row-Boris-Johnson-HIGNFY-jibes.html

[douglas9401]

Just checked, it's a comedy show, about the news.

Mr Myrie is allowed to wear more than one hat, just like Mr Johnson.
No hi-viz required though.

[barry1010]

It was nothing to do with anything that was said, nor the swearing. It was simply the juxtaposition of Clive as host of a satirical show immediately before the news.
Love HIGNFY and thought last week's episode was one of the better ones.

[douglas9401]

Oh, and the BBC need to grow a pair, as it were.

[barry1010]

HIGNFY is a BBC programme

[douglas9401]

The last line of the article suggests, nay confirms, that most of the text is imagination or fabrication on behalf of the 'newspaper'.

Nothing obvious on the famously open and masochistic BBC site referring to the situation.

[choux]

It is a load of predictable and repetitive rubbish and varies from AB News with a non-existent swear filter. Just because HIGNFY is long running it should not be above review. Comedy is subjective and I will remain at odds with the responses above :D

[naomi24]

It stopped being funny a long time ago. Shame really. It used to be entertaining.

[Peter Pedant]

The BBC deemed it necessary to pull Mr Myrie from Friday's main evening bulletin.

few newspaper articles on it - one was too near the other and they thought it looked bad....Beeb being a bit precious....
Newsreaders are just that - they read the news
Alistair burnett of yesteryear ( 40) was allowed some editorial input as he had been an editor somewhere

[Mozz71]

I'm sure Clive Myrie's impartiality is beyond reproach. It's not as if he ad-libbed any comments. Everything the guest presenters say is completely scripted.

[choux]

Mozz, it has been known that the the programme is not as spontaneous as the broadcasts may wish it to appear and that the presenters' contributions are scripted. My contention is more about the gleeful way in which Myrie delivered his lines and happily used bad language.

[Mozz71]

Choux, as you said, it's after the watershed and the iPlayer has a content warning on it. It's an entertainment show with adult content. If Mr Myrie delivered his lines lacklustrely, he wouldn't get another gig on the show.