Chicago Sports Network, the joint venture between the White Sox, Bulls and
Blackhawks and Standard Media that is replacing NBC Sports Chicago (which
goes off after the Sox end their season on Sept. 30), will be primarily
distributed through the subchannels of WJYS, a religious station licensed
I kind of got that, but on CNN there really was no mention of points in the
set up, and Hist Woods did not even make the cursory “Points!” Exclamation
for responses he found funny (maybe he did it once or twice near the end).
The Libertarian guy made the most references to it, which implied that
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Re the points. In the UK version, they don't matter as mentioned, and you
can only *glimpse *the scorebox in a handful of very wide shots. The reason
is basically because rounds get dropped because they're not funny enough.
Then there's an ongoing running gag in the UK that Paul Merton [nearly]
alw
My problem was more of a nit-picking in that although the great theme song
from the UK version is used here, it's used in this weird electronic
version (although I assume that if they used the same UK theme, they
would've had to replace the reference to the ITV "News at Ten" theme in the
beginning)
I was surprised by how much I liked the first show - so much better than
“After Midnight.” It seemed like the point of the show is for the civilian
is to be kind of a straight man, and I thought he was fine, though maybe he
or Wood should have somehow brought in a little bit of who he was in real
l
Have I Got News - Brit Version
Like all these panel shows the host is the driver and while the panelists
come and go there are a few ringers.
If you like the vibe of the host, you will like the show. The current Brit
news goes over my head on occasion,
but that's on me not them.
On Mon, Sep 16, 2
As far as I'm aware, the same company, Hat Trick, is making the US version
as has long produced the UK version. I suspect a bunch of the British team
has been in the US putting this together - at least initially.
The UK version is taped 24 hours ahead of broadcast, and usually tapes for
2-3 hours
There are clips of the British edition available on the YT through Hat Trick
Productions, the shows' (both UK and US) production company. Longer videos are
available through other YT sources, but I have no sense if they are 'official'
or not.
I have tried to get into the UK version, but much
