Have I Got News For You meets Would I Lie To You | C4 pilots fake news panel show

Have I Got News For You meets Would I Lie To You

C4 pilots fake news panel show

The makers of Have I Got News For You are producing a new comedy panel show, about fake news.

Hat Trick Productions are piloting The Fake News Show about ‘outlandish headlines, wild lies, dodgy Photoshops and all-too-believable viral clips that have pushed post-truth to the front pages’.

Two teams of comedians and celebrities will be testing out the format in a one-off to be recorded for Channel 4 in London next month.

The blurb for the programmes suggests they will have to separate truth from fiction, such as whether a rocket launched into space by the Nazis in 1944 is about to hit the UK? (false) or whether a monkey in France was really tasered after a chocolate-fuelled bender (true).

In 2010, Hat Trick made the Bubble, fronted by David Mitchell, in which three comedians were tasked to differentiate real news stories from fake ones, after four days of isolation from the media in a remote country house, but it only ran for six episodes on BBC Two.

The Fake News Show will be taped at the London Studios on February 4. Click here for audience tickets.

Published: 17 Jan 2017

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