Sam Delaney's News Thing

Sam Delaney's News Thing was a weekly television programme produced by RT UK and presented by British journalist and broadcaster Sam Delaney that aired every Saturday night from November 2015 until June 2018. It comprised highly satirical comment, discussion and short sketches relating to British and international current affairs, and each episode was preceded by an onscreen warning that it is not an actual news bulletin and may contain adult language and humour.

Sam Delaney's News Thing
Sam Delaney presenting News Thing.
GenreSatire
Created byRT UK
Presented bySam Delaney
Original language(s)English
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes138
Production
Executive producer(s)Ben Rigden
Production location(s)London
Release
Original networkRT
Original release5 November 2015 –
24 June 2018
External links
Website

Each show typically consisted of: three monologues from the presenter on topical issues followed by a discussion with a panel of comedians, journalists and celebrities; an interview with a political guest; video reports from comedian Bobby Mair; and other sketches. A running feature was an extract from the diaries of Jeremy Corbyn, played by character actor Alex Lowe.[1]

Regular panelists included Angela Barnes, Susie Boniface, Holly Burn, Des Clarke, Giles Coren, Iain Lee, Luisa Zissman, David Mills and Felicity Ward.

On 3 June 2016, the show was guest hosted by John Prescott and temporarily titled John Prescott's News Thing.[2] In the summer of 2017 another episode was guest hosted by Ann Widdecombe, former Conservative politician.

After 138 episodes over the last two years, Sam Delaney's News Thing aired for the final time on 24 June 2018.

Notable guests in 2015 and 2016
gollark: So it replaces the FS stuff the unprivileged code sees with its own hooks which ensure stuff is in the potatOS folder.
gollark: But PotatOS has to present an environment close to what a normal, potatOSless computer would have, for compatibility.
gollark: Lua, being cool™, actually lets you override the global environment other functions see. Which allows sandboxing very easily (minus some DoS attacks), since you just give them an environment with no I/O functions.
gollark: All the I/O stuff in CC is provided to user code via a bunch of tables of functions like `fs` in the global scope.
gollark: Specifically², function environments mostly.

References
  1. "News Thing" YouTube channel, YouTube
  2. "News Thing" episode guide, RT UK
  3. "Brapocalypse". Sam Delaney's News Thing. 1 July 2016. Retrieved 30 August 2016 – via RT International.
  4. "Migrants". Sam Delaney's News Thing. 3 March 2016. Retrieved 30 August 2016 – via RT International.
  5. "Germaine Greer on why Britain is better in the EU". Sam Delaney's News Thing. 6 May 2016. Retrieved 30 August 2016 – via Studio Sixty Billion.
  6. https://talkradio.co.uk/news/sam-delaney-and-ken-livingstone-relive-kens-glory-days-1609264633
  7. "John Prescott to clash with Ken Livingstone on Russia Today". The Guardian. 3 June 2016. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
  8. "Happy Mondays star Shaun Ryder claims coked-up royal 'showed him her f****'". The Daily Star. 25 April 2016. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
  9. "The Queen must be destroyed". Sam Delaney's News Thing. 23 April 2016. Retrieved 30 August 2016 – via RT International.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.