50-595: Victoria Antoinette Derbyshire (born 2 October 1968) is a British journalist, newsreader and broadcaster. Her eponymous current affairs and debate programme was broadcast on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel from 2015 until March 2020. She has also presented Newsnight and BBC Panorama . She was one of eight women to appear in ITV's The Real Full Monty: Ladies Night – an entertainment documentary to raise awareness of breast cancer. She previously presented
100-465: A mastectomy , but would continue to present her programme as often as possible during treatment. She recorded video diaries about her cancer treatment, from her mastectomy through chemotherapy and radiotherapy which went viral and were viewed millions of times. In 2018 she took part in an ITV programme, The Real Full Monty: Ladies' Night , in which she and seven other women affected by breast cancer encouraged women to check their bodies for signs of
150-611: A 'zero rating." The programme was cancelled in January 2020 as part of the cost-cutting in BBC News. On Twitter , Amol Rajan , the BBC's media editor, said the costs were deemed too high for a conventionally watched linear show, but said its "Digital impact was huge. Show was designed to reach audiences the BBC struggles to connect with, and it did - online." The last programme was broadcast on 17 March 2020, itself being moved forward as
200-445: A Bit More Old News for You . Until 2002, Have I Got News for You was hosted by Angus Deayton , who was sacked following reports in national newspapers of several scandals about his private life. Since then, the programme has been hosted by a different celebrity each week; many of them add their own comedy. The programme has gained widespread acclaim for its contribution to British television and comedy, receiving multiple awards at
250-497: A claimed four hours' work, while Nick Clegg was paid £15,000 to host an episode. Throughout its broadcast history, Have I Got News for You has drawn considerable criticism from guests, politicians and viewers about its content, sometimes ending in court. The series has seen many releases on VHS and DVD, mainly consisting of straight-to-video compilations from other seasons. They were all released by Hat Trick through Video Collection International / 2Entertain , under license from
300-400: A false rape claim. Longstaff twice referred to the alleged victim of the false rape claim as a "rapist" which was not challenged by the interviewer. The BBC later issued an apology for any distress they had caused as a result of the broadcast and made it clear that the person referred to had never been tried or convicted of rape. On June 28, 2018, the visual novel Doki Doki Literature Club!
350-473: A gap in its schedule that needed filling; Have I Got News for You was moved to BBC One and given access to a broader audience in October that year. In 2002, Deayton was caught using illegal drugs and soliciting sex with a prostitute – a fact that he was ridiculed for on the programme, after it became headlines – putting his private life under scrutiny by news media outlets. Further scandal effectively forced
400-422: A guest on Hislop's team. Merton returned for the following series as team captain, deeming that his absence had given the programme the "shot in the arm" it needed and that it had been "better ever since". By 2000, the BBC made a decision to relocate its late evening news bulletin from nine o'clock to ten o'clock, after ITV moved their long-running ten o'clock bulletin to eleven o'clock. The resulting move caused
450-593: A guest panelist, answering questions on various news stories on the week prior to an episode's broadcast. However, the programme's format focuses more on the topical discussions on the subject of the news stories related to questions, and the satirical humour derived from these by the teams. This style of presentation had a profound impact on panel shows in British TV comedy, making it one of the genre's key standard-bearers. The programme aired on BBC Two for its first ten years, before moving to BBC One in 2000. While
500-418: A panellist, while Andy Hamilton had appeared most often as a guest panellist. On rare occasions, the programme has had a participant cancel or otherwise be unable to appear. Production staff try to find a replacement, but this is often challenging at short notice. For an episode in 1993, nobody could find a suitable replacement for Roy Hattersley (then an MP, having recently stepped down as Deputy Leader of
550-524: A permanent feature in the programme's format in June 2003. Between 1990 and its spring season in 2018, the programme was recorded at The London Studios , the former home of London Weekend Television ; it briefly was recorded at BBC Television Centre for a 2001 Election special, the Friday after the elections were completed. From the 2018 autumn series, recording was conducted at Elstree Studios , although
SECTION 10
#1732797280423600-413: A picture to provide the joke; in rare cases, a video clip is used. A repeat with a running time of 40 minutes, titled Have I Got a Bit More News for You , is often aired on the weekend, and features additional content cut from the original episode, and can often include scenes and outtakes made during the show before the opening credits or after the ending credits. The format of Have I Got News for You
650-563: A result of restrictions imposed by the BBC due to the COVID-19 pandemic. An episode of the Victoria Derbyshire show broadcast on 22 May 2015, featured an interview with Lisa Longstaff from the organisation Women Against Rape . During the broadcast, Longstaff made reference to the case of Eleanor de Freitas , a woman who died of suicide while being prosecuted for allegedly perverting the course of justice by allegedly making
700-409: A sports chat show on Channel 4 on Saturday mornings called SportsTalk . She also co-presented the last episode of Central Weekend Live in 2001. In October 2011, Derbyshire made her debut on Have I Got News for You . In autumn 2013, under the new editorship of Ian Katz , Derbyshire began presenting Newsnight while continuing to present her daily 5 Live programme. Her final Radio 5 Live show
750-493: A standardly structured BBC World News newscast. When Derbyshire was away (on leave, on an assignment, or elsewhere), the titles described the programme as 'with' the stand-in presenter. The BBC described it as the "centrepiece of domestic daytime TV news," and the initial "digital first" TV show. Of the first ten editions of the Victoria Derbyshire programme, one show in April 2015 attracted only 39,000 viewers and gained
800-548: A television show which was like a more topical version of Hat Trick's Whose Line Is It Anyway? (developed by future Mock the Week creators Dan Patterson and Mark Leveson), but it was decided that the show would follow a template more in keeping with Radio 4's The News Quiz . Hat Trick hired a producer with a track record in radio comedy, John Lloyd , and filmed a pilot with a title which aped long-running Children's BBC programme John Craven's Newsround . After filming
850-470: A vicar's tea party." Derbyshire did not move to Salford and often presented from London. In the first three months in MediaCity she had spent only two weeks broadcasting from Salford. Derbyshire has worked on television news and political programmes including This Week , an interview series, Victoria Derbyshire Interviews.. , on the BBC News Channel , and Watchdog , as well as Panorama . She hosted
900-456: A virtual audience. After the easing of restrictions filming continued to take place at Riverside Studios. Episodes are usually set to around 30 minutes in length and are edited from the footage taken from a longer recording session the day before an episode is broadcast. The time frame given is used to allow the programme to retain the topical elements that an episode will feature, while allowing for any potentially defamatory material to be cut by
950-603: A younger sister, Alex, who is a television producer at Good Morning Britain . During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Derbyshire told the Radio Times she would break the rule of six for Christmas to be with her family of seven. She justified her public comment by stating that, "everyone else would be doing it". However she later apologised for her comments. In August 2015, Derbyshire announced on Twitter that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer and would be having
1000-432: Is derived from the comedy that can be generated by each guest that participates in the programme, whether as a panellist or as a host. Although the show features a variety of comedians, it has also included politicians, television personalities, actors and news media personalities, several of whom have appeared more than once. As of 16 October 2020, Alexander Armstrong had appeared most often, mainly as guest host and also as
1050-493: The BBC . During the late 1990s, the website haveigotnewsforyou.com, run in association with Freeserve , featured interactive versions of the show's games, including the missing words round and the caption competition, offering prizes. Have I Got News for You started broadcasting a video podcast , The Inevitable Internet Spin-off , on 13 April 2007. It was initially planned to run for six series, from series 33 to 38, taking it to
SECTION 20
#17327972804231100-546: The BBC Online teams such as BBC Trending and BBC Pop Up. Occasionally the uncut versions of interviews were aired as well, in this case they were taken in place of HARDtalk and aired by BBC World News as well. Until 2018, the show was broadcast live on BBC Two and BBC News from 9:00 am to 11:00 am every Monday to Friday, from then on its start time was shifted forward an hour to 10:00am. Its episodes were available to watch for 30 days after release on
1150-401: The BBC iPlayer catch-up service. On 22 January 2020, it was announced that the programme would be axed in later 2020 as part of BBC cuts. However, due to priority put on coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic , the BBC suspended the program earlier than initially planned with the final episode airing on 17 March 2020. Derbyshire has remained as a presenter in the same time slot, instead presenting
1200-600: The British Comedy Awards including Best New Comedy Programme in 1991, Best Entertainment Series in 1992, Best Comedy Gameshow in 1999 and the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011. It also received the 2016 BAFTA Television Award for Comedy and Comedy Entertainment Programme. Have I Got News for You was initially conceived as a pilot for the BBC called John Lloyd's Newsround . The BBC had commissioned Hat Trick Productions to make
1250-825: The Paris Concorde crash , general elections and the Olympic Games . On TV she has covered the Grenfell Tower fire and the Manchester Arena bombing . In September 2010, she interviewed her own BBC Radio 5 Live superior about why he was not moving to MediaCityUK in Salford when the station moved in autumn 2011. Describing the interview, The Guardian said: "Derbyshire's grilling of the station's controller Adrian Van Klaveren made Jeremy Paxman 's infamous interview with Mark Thompson look like
1300-522: The University of Liverpool . Afterwards, she attended a postgraduate diploma course in radio and TV journalism at Preston Polytechnic (now the University of Central Lancashire ). She has said that her father Anthony physically abused her, her mother, and her younger brother and sister. Derbyshire's mother eventually walked out, leaving with the three children; Victoria was 16 and never saw her father again. She talked about these events during an edition of
1350-533: The BBC to terminate Deayton's contract with them two episodes into the programme's 24th series. At short notice, Merton hosted the first episode after Deayton's departure, with a series of guest hosts appearing for the remainder of the series, including Anne Robinson , Boris Johnson , and Jeremy Clarkson . Despite an initial search for a permanent successor to Deayton, having a different guest host each week proved successful, with average audience figures increasing from 6 million to 7 million, leading to it becoming
1400-460: The BBC's Panorama Derbyshire presented on domestic abuse in lockdown in August 2020. When she was 17, she had a summer job at a furniture factory which she described as the worst job in her life. Derbyshire worked as a reporter for BBC Coventry & Warwickshire and later worked for BBC GMR Radio . From the latter, she joined BBC Radio 5 Live in 1998, at first deputizing for Jane Garvey on
1450-408: The BBC's team of lawyers to avoid legal issues. The focus on each episode is on four panellists – the show's two regulars, and two guests – split between two teams, answering questions related to topical items in the news that occurred within the previous week, but the format often forgoes this aspect and the scoring system in favour of the panellists' witty exchanges, jokes, and satirical discussions on
1500-511: The Labour Party) after he pulled out at the last minute; he had cancelled on two prior occasions. He was replaced by a tub of lard ; the programme's host compared Hattersley to the tub of lard, claiming that "they possessed the same qualities and were liable to give similar performances". Accounts vary as to how much panellists are paid to appear on the show. Jacob Rees-Mogg’s Parliamentary register of interests showed him earning £1,500 for
1550-591: The Year at the PinkNews Awards in 2015 and 2016. In 2017, the programme won a BAFTA for its coverage of former footballers who had been sexually abused. Have I Got News for You Have I Got News for You ( HIGNFY ) is a British television panel show , produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC , which premiered on 28 September 1990. The programme focuses on two teams, one usually captained by Ian Hislop and one by Paul Merton , each plus
Victoria Derbyshire - Misplaced Pages Continue
1600-536: The Year. Derbyshire met Mark Sandell at Radio 5 Live and had an affair with him while he was married to fellow 5 Live presenter Fi Glover . After being together for 17 years, Derbyshire and Sandell married in 2018, after Derbyshire was treated for breast cancer; the couple have two children and live in Staines-upon-Thames , Surrey . Her younger brother, Nick Derbyshire , was a county cricketer for Essex and Lancashire between 1994 and 1996. She also has
1650-428: The breakfast show, and later as the regular co-presenter with Julian Worricker when Garvey moved on. The programme won Gold Sony Awards in 1998 and 2002. In January 2003, Worricker left the breakfast show, and Derbyshire was partnered by Nicky Campbell . After being on maternity leave, she took over the morning news programme in August 2004. She covered some of the biggest global stories since joining 5 Live: 9/11 ,
1700-567: The disease. Victoria Derbyshire (TV programme) Victoria Derbyshire is a British weekday current affairs programme, which was simulcast from April 2015 to March 2020 on BBC Two and BBC News Channel , hosted by Victoria Derbyshire . Its remit includes original stories, exclusive interviews and audience debates. It also acts as a showcase for BBC journalism using reports and interviews by BBC Nations and Regions, BBC World Service , language services and other programmes such as Newsnight , World News Today and Global , plus
1750-417: The end of 2009. From the beginning of Series 37, a new internet feature, Have I Got News for You, News... for You , was introduced. A short programme featuring typical opening and closing sequences (without the presence of a live audience) as well as other short sketches, it has so far been presented by Alexander Armstrong , and run fortnightly, bridging the gap between series 37 and 38. On 1 October 2009,
1800-485: The episode focuses on four rounds that generally follow the same arrangement: After the rounds are completed, the host then gives out the scores, denoting which team is the winner. If time permits, the episode may feature a bonus round called the "Caption Competition", in which panellists are given a single or two pictures to make amusing captions to. The episode always concludes with the host making an additional set of satirical, fictional comedic news stories, accompanied by
1850-404: The first lockdown due to having to isolate with abusive partners. In November 2020, it was announced that Derbyshire would be taking part in the twentieth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here . She was the fourth celebrity to be eliminated alongside Beverley Callard on 30 November. In 2019, she was one of six candidates shortlisted and then auditioned to replace David Dimbleby as
1900-476: The mental health charity Samaritans , who discussed the game's claim that it is suitable for people over the age of 13. Most of this conversation was about paying attention to the mental health of children and listening to disclaimers. In 2015, Derbyshire was nominated for RTS Presenter of the Year along with Zand who was nominated in the Young Talent category which Zand won. Derbyshire won Broadcaster of
1950-532: The morning news, current affairs and interview programme on BBC Radio 5 Live between 10 am and 12 noon each weekday. She left at the same time as fellow 5 Live broadcasters Richard Bacon and Shelagh Fogarty . Derbyshire was born on 2 October 1968 in Bury , Lancashire , to Pauline and Anthony Derbyshire, but moved to Littleborough as a child. She attended Bury Grammar School for Girls , an independent school , before studying English language and literature at
2000-542: The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom in 2020 impacted production of series during that time. The spring series saw Hislop, Merton, and the celebrities for each episode filming episodes virtually from their own homes, against a superimposed CGI recreation of the studio. The 2020 autumn, 2021 spring, and 2021 autumn series were filmed at Riverside Studios in London under safety measures to prevent
2050-404: The pilot, John Lloyd decided not to proceed as chairman, and the job fell to comedian Angus Deayton , after try-outs with future News Quiz host Sandi Toksvig and a pre-fame Chris Evans in the main role. The team captains – Ian Hislop , editor of Private Eye and a staff writer for Spitting Image , and Paul Merton , comedian and Whose Line Is It Anyway? cast member – returned from
Victoria Derbyshire - Misplaced Pages Continue
2100-612: The pilot. Since its first broadcast on 28 September 1990, the BBC has commissioned two series each year, the number of episodes being divided between the Spring series, broadcast from April to June, and the Autumn series, shown from October to December. The Autumn series takes a week's break to make room for the Children in Need special. For the first ten years of its existence, the programme
2150-439: The question's relevant news item. Each episode consists of a general format that is largely unchanged since the programme first premiered. All begin with an introduction by the host, who gives out a set of satirical, fictional comedic news stories that are often accompanied with a video clip from news programmes or general public recordings to provide the joke, followed by introductions of the episode's guest panellists. After this,
2200-486: The regular host of Question Time . From September 2022, Derbyshire became joint lead presenter with Kirsty Wark of BBC 's Newsnight . In 2009, she won the Nick Clarke Award for her interview with a man accused and then cleared of date rape . She was named PinkNews Broadcaster of the Year in October 2015 and 2016. In January 2016 and January 2017, she was nominated for RTS Network Presenter of
2250-455: The spread of infection, which included socially distancing panellists and host with screens while on set. Initially audience numbers were reduced – half those attending each recording being allowed in the studio, and the other half watching the recording in the studio's cinema – but upon the British government implementing a second lockdown, all remaining episodes in the series were recorded with
2300-432: The standard episodes are broadcast on Fridays, since 2003 extended versions of each episode, initially titled Have I Got a Little Bit More News for You and later simply Have I Got a Bit More News for You , have been broadcast, originally the following Saturdays on BBC Two, later moved to Mondays on BBC One and returned to BBC Two in 2021. Repeats of older episodes are named Have I Got Old News for You or Have I Got
2350-493: Was broadcast on 5 September 2014. The Victoria Derbyshire current affairs TV programme was her idea; she suggested it to James Harding , then head of BBC News, who commissioned it three days later. It was first broadcast on 7 April 2015 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel. The programme was cancelled in January 2020; the BBC said that the cost was too high. and it did not attract young and diverse audiences. She
2400-509: Was discussed on an episode, two days after 15-year-old Ben Walmsley, a fan of the game from Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk , committed suicide. Due to the suicides of Sayori and Yuri, Derbyshire claimed that Doki Doki Literature Club! is "a risk to children" and that its graphics "are clearly aimed at young people", and then had a 30-minute conversation between two people about the game, Laura Dale from game news website Kotaku and Lorna Fraser of
2450-627: Was not informed of the decision before the story appeared in The Times . The last programme was broadcast in March 2020. Since then, Derbyshire has presented BBC News at 9 9am-11am on BBC Two, BBC News Channel and BBC World News. She appeared on screen during a Coronavirus lockdown with the telephone number of the National Domestic Abuse hotline written on her hand, to raise awareness of the plight of people that were suffering during
2500-420: Was shown on BBC Two . Hislop has been the longest-serving member of the three on the programme since its premiere. He has not missed a single episode. Merton took a break during the 11th series in 1996, saying he had become "very tired" of the show and thought it had become "stuck in a rut". In his absence, his role was assigned to a guest team captain each episode, with Merton himself returning for one episode as
#422577