CNN’s Have I Got News For You Announces This Week’s Guests
NEW EPISODE PREMIERES SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5 AT 9PM ET/PT ON CNN
NEW YORK – (October 3, 2024) – Comedian and actor Andy Richter and political strategist and commentator Ana Navarro will join as guests on this week’s episode of CNN’s Have I Got News For You, the much-anticipated American version of the long-running BBC comedy series. Produced by Hat Trick Productions for CNN Originals, the ten-episode limited series will continue on Saturday, October 5 at 9pm ET/PT on CNN.
Always relevant and topical, Have I Got News for You, serves up a smart and edgy take on the news of the week from host Roy Wood Jr. along with two illustrious team captains in Amber Ruffin and Michael Ian Black.
Andy Richter is a comedian, actor, writer and talk show announcer best known as Conan O’Brien’s counterpart on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, and Conan. He currently hosts the podcast The Three Questions with Andy Richter and The Andy Richter Call-In Show on SiriusXM.
Ana Navarro is a Republican strategist and political contributor for CNN and a guest cohost for The View. Born in Nicaragua, Navarro grew up in Miami and rose quickly in Florida’s Republican party shaping outreach efforts to the fast-growing and influential Hispanic community. She was the National Hispanic Co-Chair for John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign and has served as Ambassador for the United Nations Human Rights Commission.
Have I Got News For You will regularly air Saturdays at 9pm ET/PT and will be available to stream on Max the following day. This week’s episode will stream live for pay TV subscribers via CNN.com, CNN connected TV and mobile apps on Saturday, October 5. It will also be available on demand beginning Sunday, October 6 to pay TV subscribers via CNN.com, CNN connected TV and mobile apps, and Cable Operator Platforms.
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About CNN Originals
The CNN Originals group develops, produces and acquires original, long-form unscripted programming for CNN Worldwide. Amy Entelis, executive vice president of talent, CNN Originals and creative development, oversees the award-winning CNN Originals portfolio that includes the following premium content brands: CNN Original Series, CNN Films, CNN Presents, and the newly formed CNN Studios, an internal production studio which creates long-form programming for CNN’s global platforms. Since 2012, the team has overseen and executive produced more than 45 multi-part documentary series and 60 feature-length documentary films, earning more than 110 awards and 445 nominations for the cable network, including CNN Films’ first Academy Award® for Navalny. Acclaimed titles include the Peabody Award winning and 13-time Emmy® Award-winning Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown; five time Emmy® nominee, Apollo 11, directed by Todd Douglas Miller; Emmy® nominated Eva Longoria: Searching for Mexico; the Emmy® Award-nominated “Decades Series”: The Sixties, The Seventies, The Eighties, The Nineties, The 2000s, and The 2010s, executive produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman; The Last Movie Stars, directed by Ethan Hawke about the lives and careers of actors and humanitarians Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman; Grammy® Award nominee Little Richard: I Am Everything, directed by Lisa Cortés; The Many Lives of Martha Stewart; This is Life with Lisa Ling; Primetime Emmy® and duPont-Columbia Award-winning, RBG, directed by Betsy West and Julie Cohen; See It Loud: The History of Black Television, executive produced by LeBron James and Maverick Carter; Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight in partnership with the BBC; the Producers Guild Award and three-time Emmy® Award-winning Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy; BAFTA nominee and Directors Guild Award winner, Three Identical Strangers, directed by Tim Wardle; and the five-time Emmy® Award-winning United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell; The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper; and Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?. CNN Originals can be seen on CNN, the CNN Original Hub on Max and discovery+, the CNN Originals FAST channel, and for pay TV subscription via CNN.com, CNN apps and cable operator platforms.
About Hat Trick Productions
Hat Trick Productions is one of the UK’s leading independent production and distribution companies, co-founded and run by Jimmy Mulville. For over 30 years Hat Trick has been producing critically and commercially successful content for outlets in the US and UK. Hit shows include Whose Line Is It Anyway? (ABC/CW) Episodes (BBC/Showtime) and Derry Girls (Netflix/Channel 4). Have I Got News For You is the UK’s longest-running comedy show, now in its 35th year and winner of every major British television award.
About Warner Bros. Discovery
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