CNN Launches Extension of CNN Original “Have I Got News For You” with New Podcast “Have I Got News For Your Ears” Hosted by Team Captain Michael Ian Black
Companion Podcast is Produced by Hat Trick Productions for CNN Podcasts
NEW YORK, NY – (July 10, 2025) – CNN announced today the expansion of the CNN Original Have I Got News For You brand with the launch of a new companion podcast, Have I Got News For Your Ears, hosted by Team Captain Michael Ian Black. Produced by Hat Trick Productions for CNN Podcasts, the first episode is available now.
Have I Got News For Your Ears is a comedy podcast that serves up a smart and edgy take on the news of the week. In the premiere episode, Black is joined by Jimmy Mulville, the creator and executive producer of Have I Got News For You. Throughout the season, Black will be joined by a rotating collection of guests to test their knowledge of current events and share some behind-the-scenes secrets.
Have I Got News For Your Ears will release new episodes every Wednesday wherever you get your podcasts. Episodes will also be available to stream on the @HIGNFYUS official YouTube page.
“CNN audiences have shown a resounding interest in our topical entertainment programming on Saturday nights. This podcast is an opportunity to expand the ways in which audiences engage with the Have I Got News For You brand across platforms, with all the bite and hilarity they’ve come to expect from the show,” said Amy Entelis, executive vice president of talent, CNN Originals and creative development for CNN Worldwide.
Always relevant and of-the-moment, Have I Got News For You will return for a third season on Saturday, September 6 at 9pm ET/PT with host Roy Wood Jr. alongside team captains Amber Ruffin and Black. Joining CNN’s encore presentation of Real Time with Bill Maher, the network’s Saturday primetime lineup of topical entertainment programming has made CNN a top cable destination on Saturday nights. All episodes of Have I Got News For You are available to stream now on HBO Max.
Have I Got News For You and Have I Got News For Your Ears are both executive produced by Jim Biederman, Jimmy Mulville and Richard Wilson for Hat Trick Productions.
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CNN Podcasts is the exclusive producer of audio content and podcasts for CNN Worldwide including All There Is with Anderson Cooper, Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, The Assignment with Audie Cornish, Terms of Service with Clare Duffy, The Account from CNN, Chance Encounters, CNN 5 Things, CNN 5 Good Things, and CNN One Thing. Listen to all CNN Podcasts content at www.cnn.com/audio.
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About CNN Originals
The CNN Originals group develops, produces and acquires original, long-form unscripted programming for CNN Worldwide. Amy Entelis, executive vice president of talent, CNN Originals and creative development, oversees the award-winning CNN Originals portfolio that includes the following premium content brands: CNN Original Series, CNN Films, CNN Flashdocs, and CNN Studios. Since 2012, the team has overseen and executive produced more than 60 multi-part documentary series and 70 feature-length documentary films, earning more than 120 awards and 450 nominations for the cable network, including CNN Films’ first Academy Award® for Navalny. Acclaimed titles include the Peabody Award winning and 13-time Emmy® Award-winning Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown; five time Emmy® nominee, Apollo 11, directed by Todd Douglas Miller; Carville: Winning is Everything, Stupid directed by Matt Tyrnauer; Emmy® nominated Eva Longoria: Searching for Mexico; the Emmy® Award-nominated “Decades Series”: The Sixties, The Seventies, The Eighties, The Nineties, The 2000s, and The 2010s, executive produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman; The Last Movie Stars, directed by Ethan Hawke about the lives and careers of actors and humanitarians Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman; the Emmy® Award winning Little Richard: I Am Everything, directed by Lisa Cortés; Luther Vandross: Never Too Much, directed by Dawn Porter; The Many Lives of Martha Stewart; Primetime Emmy® and duPont-Columbia Award-winning, RBG, directed by Betsy West and Julie Cohen; See It Loud: The History of Black Television, executive produced by LeBron James and Maverick Carter; Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight in partnership with the BBC; the Producers Guild Award and three-time Emmy® Award-winning Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy; This is Life with Lisa Ling; BAFTA nominee and Directors Guild Award winner, Three Identical Strangers, directed by Tim Wardle; the five-time Emmy® Award-winning United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell; the American version of the long-running UK comedy series, Have I Got News For You, hosted by Roy Wood Jr; and the six-time Emmy® Award-winning The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper. CNN Originals can be seen on CNN, the CNN Original Hub on HBO Max and discovery+, the CNN Originals FAST channel, and for pay TV subscription via CNN.com, CNN apps and cable operator platforms.
About Hat Trick Productions
Hat Trick Productions is one of the UK’s leading independent production and distribution companies, co-founded and run by Jimmy Mulville. For over 30 years Hat Trick has been producing critically and commercially successful content for outlets in the US and UK. Hit shows include Whose Line Is It Anyway? (ABC/CW) Episodes (BBC/Showtime) and Derry Girls (Netflix/Channel 4). Have I Got News For You is the UK’s longest-running comedy show, now in its 35th year and winner of every major British television award.