Have I Got News For You is set to return for a record-breaking 65th series next month, it’s been revealed.
And the BBC have actually revealed that Charlie Brooker is set to take the helm as host on the opening episode of the satirical news program.
The Black Mirror developer, 52, has actually looked like a visitor on the program 9 times formerly, however the approaching program will be his 5th time as a visitor host.
Charlie will be signed up with on the BBC program by group captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton – with a variety of still-to-be-announced well-known faces comprising the remainder of the panel.
The brand-new series of the long-running program – which started in 1990 will begin on Friday 14 April at 9pm.
The program was initially hosted by Angus Deayton till 2002, prior to he was sacked in the middle of scandals in his personal life.
Since then, each program has actually been hosted by a various visitor star, each bringing their own form of humour to the panel.
Guest stars throughout the years have actually consisted of the similarity Jack Dee, Adhil Ray, Steph McGovern, Clive Myrie and Richard Ayoade.
Have I Got News For You has actually lasted longer than a number of funny panel reveals throughout the years, consisting of Mock The Week which was axed in 2015.
Elsewhere, Charlie’s partner Konnie Huq confessed in 2015 that she pressed her hubby into having marital relationship and infants in the early days of their relationship.
The kids’s television speaker and author, 47, said she provided the Black Mirror developer a demand so that neither of them lost their time with one another.
Luckily for Konnie being in advance worked. The set fulfilled and wed within 9 months and now share boys Covey, 10, and Huxley, 8, together.
They got married in Las Vegas back in July 2010.
Speaking on Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s podcast Spinning Plates today, Konnie said she constantly wished to have actually kids and feared Charlie didn’t feel the exact same, so the discussion and deal breaker instantly showed up.
‘I constantly wished to have kids… I constantly believed I’d have 3 kids and after that I had 2 and resembled, ”I’m done now,” she started.
‘But strangely, Charlie didn’t believe he ever desired kids. So when we got together, I resembled, ”if you’re not a having kids type of individual than we’re not suitable.” But it ends up he was.’
‘But he is actually good with kids which you may not believe reason for his unpleasant modify ego, however Charlie is a lamb in wolf’s clothes.’
Speaking about getting married so quick after satisfying each other, Konnie said that at the time, her ‘body clock was ticking’.
‘I remained in my mid-thirties and when you remain in your mid-thirties with your body clock ticking, you sort of think, ”I do not wish to remain in another relationship without it going anywhere,” she said.
‘So yeah, rather rapidly it was my method or the highway, which is good since then you understand if somebody is devoted possibly.’