Have I Got a Cracker For You...

CHANNEL 4 is trying out a topical panel show being dubbed Have I Got News For You for the modern age.

It has commissioned News Crack, a 30-minute “anarchic, clip-based topical comedy pilot” with a view to a series.

The show aims to “put a subversive twist on the week’s events”.

Creators Guy Davidson and Dan Clarke are writers and producers of comic news footage mash-ups and sketches whose web videos have had 250 million hits.

Guy says: “We’ve been in our basement making mashes for so long Dan has lost the ability to speak.” But their show has a way to go to challenge the BBC’s Have I Got News For You, 55 series old and approaching a 500th episode. C4’s Syeda Irtizaali says: “This felt like a very fresh, anarchic, modern take on satirising news with some brilliant new digital talent.” Karl Warner of production firm Electric Ray says: “It’ll take genuinely disturbed minds to make the world look weirder than it already is.” Wonder if Paul Merton and Ian Hislop, above left, have begun quaking in their boots yet...