Warner Bros Discovery-owned cable news channel CNN has hired former “Daily Show” correspondent Roy Wood, Jr. to serve as the host of the American version of the BBC’s comedy news program “Have I Got News For You.”
The show will premier on Saturday, September 14 on CNN, with the on-demand version available across cable, satellite and some streaming platforms the following day. Have I Got News For You will air Saturdays at 9 p.m. Eastern and Pacific every week thereafter.
“For far too long immigrants have been coming to America and taking black jobs, kudos to CNN and the immigrants at Hat Trick Productions for bringing a Black job to the States,” Wood Jr. said in a statement “It is an honor to be a part of such a hallowed British institution to help make sense of the American institutions of chaos, name-calling, disinformation, reality television and the eight-hour news cycle.”
Have I Got News For You takes the style of a comedy quiz show, which examines news headlines and current events through a satirical and surreal lens. The American version will be produced by Hat Trick Productions, with Jimmy Mulville, Richard Wilson and Jim Biederman serving as executive producers.
