Saturday night’s Season 4 premiere of Have I Got News For You will be preempted by breaking news coverage of the fatal shooting of a protester by federal agents in Minneapolis.
Tonight’s planned episode of the comedy panel series, which was taped Friday night and features guests Andy Richter and Janice Min, will instead be made available via the CNN App Saturday night. We hear the current plan is for it to air on CNN proper Sunday night.
According to preliminary reports, Federal Border Patrol agents shot and killed a 37-year-old man identified by family members as Alex Pretti, an intensive care nurse at the Veterans Administration. The Minneapolis incident is the latest in a string of controversial federal use-of-force episodes in the Twin Cities this month, coming less than three weeks after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fatally shot a 37-year-old woman.
Since its U.S. debut in September 2024, Have I Got News For You has been a standout for CNN, drawing strong ratings on Saturday nights, where it folllows an encore presentation of Real Time with Bill Maher. The show is hosted by Roy Wood Jr. alongside permanent team captains Amber Ruffin and Michael Ian Black.
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When will bill Maher, have got news shows be aired!.?
Just unnecessary they have been on for hours today with this… it was the season opener and we were looking forward to seeing it, not the repeated tragedy that has been on for hours, ridiculous.😡
Thanks for your input Susan! Really, a shooting? I’m Canadian viewer, and have been looking forward to this new season debut! Sent a message myself about the priority. Hope you get to read that. Anyway, our TV schedule shows the second viewing still to come . Looks like Sunday is the repeat day? Here’s what I found. Cheers, Steve
https://latenighter.com/news/have-i-got-news-for-you-preempted-cnn/
We agree!
A shooting in the USA? Wow! Great reason to preempt a show of humour and uplifting comradery. Especially, before actual facts come out! I’m 69 now, and this type center stage stuff, reminds me of the “Inquiring Minds” journals of the time. Always anything to be spectacular! Then move on seconds later when a squirrel bites a dog or something? Oh, then a real time news satire event that makes someone laugh during today’s downcast times? Keep listening please!
A shooting in the United States is not news.
If it’s an ICE gent murdering an innocent man, trying to help a person out in cold blood!
Many more people murdered in Chicago yesterday….do Black Lives Not Matter?
did not need to see more of this tragedy. very much did need the respite of comedy from all the awful news. preempting was a bad decision.
Do you know what time it will be on tonight?
No only would you get a situation where it would preempt for important news, like the latest shooting in Minneapolis, but, as CNN has shown, the way they’ve been presenting the news for the pat decade or two, they’ve become a fucking joke on to themselves!
Not on according to the website
Does anyone know what time on Sunday? The guide only says “CNN Newsroom” all night.
Do i have to wait until next Saturday to what “ have i got news for you “ as it was not aired last night
I thought it was going to air on Sunday after being preempted yesterday?
You all are dragging this Minnesota disaster out tooooooo long! No new info just repeating it over and over.
I am a cnn fan, but I am starting to fade away….
it wasn’t on Sunday night either.
Was not on cnn tonight either
Check HBO for the premiere episode of HIGNFY!
I wanted to watch have I got news for you this past Sunday however it was interrupted by breaking news that I had already seen and new about so I didn’t get a chance to see the new episode and to be perfectly frank I’M VERY VERY ANGRY THAT IT WAS INTERRUPTED BY NEWS I ALREADY KNEW!!!
sounds like censorship to me
So, it is now January 31 and I’ sat with CNN all Sunday which continued the breaking news of the murder of Alex Pretti. I then downloaded a CNN app – still can’t find it. How do I find the show taped on January 23, 2026?