news stories about ISIHAC guest hosts
24/02/2009 21:00 GMT
Posted by lisa Here are a few of the stories in the media today about the guest hosts for the upcoming series of "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue". Broadcasts of the next series begin on BBC Radio 4 on Monday, June 15.
BBC Radio 4 Blog: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radio4/2009/02/im_sorry_i_havent_a_clue.html
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
Mark Damazer
24 Feb 09, 06:01 PM
It was nice to think that Humphrey Lyttelton would live forever.
When - alas - he died last April I was confronted with the sort of dilemma that R4 faced when John Peel (Home Truths) and Ned Sherrin (Loose Ends) died. Should we take the programme out of the schedules forever in the belief that that presenter was so intimately bound up with the programme that it would be impossible for anyone else to present it - or should we continue in a different way?
It took me a while to work out how to proceed on Saturday mornings and there was a chance that Home Truths would work out post Peel. In many ways it did - but, after nine months, not quite enough to convince me to keep it.
Some immediately thought that we should end 'Clue' - that Humphrey's dry and self-deprecating wit was so central to the alchemy that it would not work without him. I waited before saying anything - not least because the programme team was much affected by the great man's death. But in the event the programme and the station received a fair amount of correspondence suggesting they could not do without 'Mornington Crescent', 'One Song to the Tune of Another' and other assorted brilliant tomfoolery. And the programme team decided they would like to come back - after a period of time
So - unlike 'Home Truths' I thought we should go ahead. I said a while ago (on Feedback) that 'Clue' would return but did not specify when and how. These judgements are tricky.
For Clue we wrote down the names of three people we thought we would like to chair the show - and we knew we would not immediately ask one person to do all of the first run. That would be a big burden - post Humphrey. The three names we wrote down all said yes. And here they are - Messrs Stephen Fry, Jack Dee and Rob Brydon. It's wonderful they all agreed. Of course it won't be the same as before - but these are three men of huge talent and I am confident that the show will work. So fingers crossed, and I look forward to the shows.
A reminder of the dates of the recordings and the venues, with two programmes being recorded each night:
Sunday 26th April at Her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket, London, with guest host Stephen Fry.
Tickets will be available from 1000 on Tuesday 3rd March
Sunday 17th May at the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton, with guest host Jack Dee.
Tickets will be available from 0930 on Monday 2nd March.
Thursday 4th June at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle, with guest host Rob Brydon.
Tickets will be available from 0900 on Monday 9th March
Please contact the theatres for tickets.
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Today Show interview with Rob Brydon and Barry Cryer: http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7909000/7909546.stm
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BBC News: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7909533.stm
Fry, Dee and Brydon take on Clue
Stephen Fry, Jack Dee and Rob Brydon are to share hosting duties for a new series of BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue this summer.
The series, which begins recording in April, will be aired in June and will be the show's first appearance since host Humphrey Lyttelton died in 2008.
Comedian Brydon said he was "hugely proud" to be asked to present.
Lyttelton, famed for his innuendo, died in April, aged 86. He was chairman of the series since its 1972 inception.
He died following complications from surgery to repair an aortic aneurysm.
Just before the operation, the BBC had announced it was cancelling recording of the latest series of the show.
Gavin and Stacey star Brydon, who like all the new presenters has appeared as a guest panellist on the show, said it was "not really a question of filling Humph's shoes because that couldn't be done - he was a complete one-off".
"I'm a real latecomer to it, I only came to it about three years ago but I'm so proud to be a small part of it and this is really just about continuing that lovely atmosphere.
"People don't do it for the money, they do it for the enjoyment of it and it's a unique radio show and one that I think we're all hugely proud of."
He added: "It's a unique atmosphere on that show of such warmth that I've never really found on any other show and I think it's important for people to realise that it's a group of friends playing games together."
'E-mail torrent'
Regular panellist Barry Cryer, who has also appeared on the show since the beginning, said Lyttelton's were "big shoes to fill".
"It was a strange sort of watershed when dear Humph went, there was a relatively small movement that you must never do this show again," he said.
"And then a torrent of e-mails and stuff came in saying you must go on, you must go on.
"It's no disrespect to Humph at all.
"It's just people want the show to carry on and we'll be pleased to do it, even without the great man."
Announcing the changes on the station's blog, Radio 4 controller Mark Damazer said the new presenters were "men of huge talent and I am confident that the show will work".
Veteran trumpeter Lyttelton retired from hosting Radio 2's The Best of Jazz programme a month before his death after more than 40 years presenting the show.
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The Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1155362/Stephen-Fry-Jack-Dee-Rob-Brydon-job-share-presenters-radios-Im-Sorry-I-Havent-A-Clue.html
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The Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/4805733/Im-Sorry-I-Havent-A-Clue-returns-to-Radio-4.html use the "click here for more" link below to see the text of this article | 
