# Tonite with HSY

Tonite with HSY (Urdu: آج رات حسن شہریار یاسین کے ساتھ) is a Pakistani prime time talk show hosted by Hassan Sheheryar Yasin (HSY) on Hum Sitaray. The show premiered on 13 September 2014. It is presented by Djuice and produced by Hum Television Network. Tonite with HSY represents the debut of its star, prominent fashion designer HSY, as a television host. Prior to the show, HSY had only made brief television appearances other than as a designer on fashion shows. The show's associate producers are Nida Lakhani and Sara Bhatti, of Hum TV, and its executive producers are Hum TV CEO Sultana Siddiqui and Hum Sitaray vice president Khalid Soorty. Tonite with HSY is recorded at Hum TV Studio in I.I Chundrigar Road, Karachi.
Tonite with HSY opens with a monologue by HSY. It then transitions into guest introductions, concluding with guest interviews and fun interactive segments. The debut episode attracted positive reviews from television critics and was viewed by millions of people in Pakistan.
From Season 1-3, Hum Sitaray aired one episode a week, on Saturdays at 9:10 p.m Pakistan Standard Time (PST). Season 4 aired on Hum TV every Sunday at 10.20pm PST. Season 5 premiered on Hum TV on 15 July 2018, and was broadcast at 9.10pm every Sunday. The finale was scheduled to air on 7 October 2018, concluding the 13 episodes of Season 5. Tonite with HSY is aired in Europe at 9:00 pm on Hum Europe.

## Season Overview
### Season 1-5

| Season | Episode | Guests | Original Broadcasting Network | Timeslot |
| Season 1 (Premiere) | Episode 1 | Fawad Khan & Mahira Khan | Hum Sitaray | Saturday 9.10pm |
| Season 1 | Episode 2 | Ayesha Khan & Hamza Ali Abbasi | Hum Sitaray | Saturday 9.10pm |
| Season 1 | Episode 3 | Ayesha Omar & Maria Wasti | Hum Sitaray | Saturday 9.10pm |
| Season 1 | Episode 4 | Bilal Lashari & Reema Khan | Hum Sitaray | Saturday 9.10pm |
| Season 1 | Episode 5 | Umer Sharif & Mehreen Syed | Hum Sitaray | Saturday 9.10pm |
| Season 1 | Episode 6 | Ali Azmat & Bushra Ansari | Hum Sitaray | Saturday 9.10pm |
| Season 1 | Episode 7 | Saba Qamar & Adnan Siddiqui | Hum Sitaray | Saturday 9.10pm |
| Season 1 | Episode 8 | Saba Hameed & Meesha Shafi | Hum Sitaray | Saturday 9.10pm |
| Season 1 | Episode 9 | Mehwish Hayat & Ahsan Khan | Hum Sitaray | Saturday 9.10pm |
| Season 1 | Episode 10 | Deepak Perwani & Vaneeza Ahmad | Hum Sitaray | Saturday 9.10pm |
| Season 1 | Episode 11 | Zeba Bakhtiyar & Humayun Saeed | Hum Sitaray | Saturday 9.10pm |
| Season 1 | Episode 12 | Iman Ali & Shahzad Raza | Hum Sitaray | Saturday 9.10pm |
| Season 1 (Finale) | Episode 13 | Javed Sheikh & Resham | Hum Sitaray | Saturday 9.10pm |
| Season 2 (Premiere) | Episode 1 | Imran Abbas & Sanam Jung | Hum Sitaray | Saturday 9.10pm |
| Season 2 | Episode 2 | Ayeza Khan & Danish Taimoor | Hum Sitaray | Saturday 9.10pm |
| Seaaon 2 | Episode 3 | Juggan Kazim & Moammar Rana | Hum Sitaray | Saturday 9.10pm |
| Season 2 | Episode 4 | Sanam Saeed & Junaid Khan | Hum Sitaray | Saturday 9.10pm |
| Season 2 | Episode 5 | Farhan Saeed & Urwa Hocane | Hum Sitaray | Saturday 9.10pm |
| Season 2 | Episode 6 | Sarwat Gillani & Fahad Mustafa | Hum Sitaray | Saturday 9.10pm |
| Season 2 | Episode 7 | Vasay Chaudhary & Hadiqa Kiyani | Hum Sitaray | Saturday 9.10pm |
| Season 2 | Episode 8 | Aamina Sheikh & Mohib Mirza | Hum Sitaray | Saturday 9.10pm |
| Season 2 | Episode 9 | Zainab Qayyum & Noor Hassan | Hum Sitaray | Saturday 9.10pm |
| Season 2 | Episode 10 | Cybil Chaudhary & Asrar Shah | Hum Sitaray | Saturday 9.10pm |
| Season 2 | Episode 11 | Ahmed Ali Butt & Fatima Khan | Hum Sitaray | Saturday 9.10pm |
| Season 2 (Finale) | Episode 12 | Mawra Hocane & Azfar Rehman | Hum Sitaray | Saturday 9.10pm |
| Season 3 (Premiere) | Episode 1 | Ahmed Shehzad & Shoaib Malik | Hum Sitaray | Saturday 9pm |
| Season 3 | Episode 2 | Maya Ali & Osman Khalid Butt | Hum Sitaray | Saturday 9pm |
| Season 3 | Episode 3 | Sonya Jehan & Asim Raza | Hum Sitaray | Saturday 9pm |
| Seaaon 3 | Episode 4 | Hareem Farooq & Gohar Rasheed | Hum Sitaray | Saturday 9pm |
| Season 3 | Episode 5 | Tapu Javeri & Nadia Hussain | Hum Sitaray | Saturday 9pm |
| Season 3 | Episode 6 | Mohsin Abbas Haider & Yasir Hussain | Hum Sitaray | Saturday 9pm |
| Season 3 | Episode 7 | Sanam Baloch & Abdullah Farhatullah | Hum Sitaray | Saturday 9pm |
| Season 3 | Episode 8 | Zahid Ahmed & Amna Ilyas | Hum Sitaray | Saturday 9pm |
| Season 3 | Episode 9 | Uzair Jaswal & Umair Jaswal | Hum Sitaray | Saturday 9pm |
| Season 3 | Episode 10 | Nabila Maqsood & Asad-Ul-Haq | Hum Sitaray | Saturday 9pm |
| Season 3 | Episode 11 | Ali Zeeshan & Anoushey Ashraf | Hum Sitaray | Saturday 9pm |
| Season 3 (Finale) | Episode 12 | Alyy Khan & Sana Bucha | Hum Sitaray | Saturday 9pm |
| Season 4 (Premiere) | Episode 1 | Ainy Jaffri & Osman Khalid Butt | Hum TV | Sunday 10.20pm |
| Season 4 | Episode 2 | Ayesha Khan & Azfar Rehman | Hum TV | Sunday 10.20pm |
| Season 4 | Episode 3 | Alishba Yousuf & Syra Yousuf | Hum TV | Sunday 10.20pm |
| Season 4 | Episode 4 | Feroze Khan & Humaima Malik | Hum TV | Sunday 10.20pm |
| Season 4 | Episode 5 | Mira Sethi & Adnan Malik | Hum TV | Sunday 10.20pm |
| Season 4 | Episode 6 | Sanam Saeed & Aamina Sheikh | Hum TV | Sunday 10.20pm |
| Season 4 | Episode 7 | Urwa Hocane, Mawra Hocane & Farhan Saeed | Hum TV | Sunday 10.20pm |
| Season 4 | Episode 8 | Zhalay Sarhadi & Ahmed Ali Akbar | Hum TV | Sunday 10.20pm |
| Season 4 | Episode 9 | Mikaal Zulfiqar & Ushna Shah | Hum TV | Sunday 10.20pm |
| Season 4 | Episode 10 | Sonya Hussain & Yasir Hussain | Hum TV | Sunday 10.20pm |
| Season 4 | Episode 11 | Aiman Khan & Muneeb Butt | Hum TV | Sunday 10.20pm |
| Season 4 | Episode 12 | Mahira Khan & Hamza Ali Abbasi | Hum TV | Sunday 10.20pm |
| Season 4 (Finale) | Episode 13 | Bilal Ashraf & Gohar Rasheed | Hum TV | Sunday 10.20pm |
| Season 5 (Premiere) | Episode 1 | Wasim Akram & Shoaib Akhtar | Hum TV | Sunday 9.10pm |
| Season 5 | Episode 2 | Veena Malik & Meera | Hum TV | Sunday 9.10pm |
| Season 5 | Episode 3 | Sohai Ali Abro & Adnan Sarwar | Hum TV | Sunday 9.10pm |
| Season 5 | Episode 4 | Ali Safina, Ali Gul Pir,Dino & Khalid Malik | Hum TV | Sunday 9.10pm |
| Season 5 | Episode 5 | Ali Kazmi & Juggan Kazim | Hum TV | Sunday 9.10pm |
| Season 5 | Episode 6 | Mehwish Hayat & Nabeel Qureshi | Hum TV | Sunday 9.10pm |
| Season 5 | Episode 7 | Aijaz Aslam & Adnan Siddiqui | Hum TV | Sunday 9.10pm |
| Season 5 | Episode 8 | Zainab Qayum & Vaneeza Ahmad | Hum TV | Sunday 9.10pm |
| Season 5 | Episode 9 | Sadaf Kanwal & Amna Ilyas | Hum TV | Sunday 9.10pm |
| Season 5 | Episode 10 | Ayesha Omar & Azfar Rehman | Hum TV | Sunday 9.10pm |
| Season 5 | Episode 11 | Iqra Aziz & Minal Khan | Hum TV | Sunday 9.10pm |
| Season 5 | Episode 12 | Momina Mustehsan & Asim Azher | Hum TV | Sunday 9.10pm |
| Season 5 (Finale) | Episode 13 | Hareem Farooq & Ali Rehman Khan | Hum TV | Sunday 9.10pm |

## Background

Talk shows in Pakistan focus mainly on news and current affairs. There are few late-night, prime time or daytime entertainment talk shows similar to those produced elsewhere in the world.
Tonite with HSY marks the television debut of its host, Hassan Sheheryar Yasin (HSY). HSY is one of Pakistan's most prominent fashion designers, with 20 years in the fashion industry. When the show premiered on 13 September 2014, HSY said in an interview: "I have been offered shows many times before but I never had the time...I love TV and everyone knows that I love talking, so it seemed like a great time to start this up."
According to HSY, the show was conceived as an escape from the daily hustle and bustle of life, offering a completely different platform for conversation between the host and guests. In an interview HSY said:
   "There is a lot of despair in our country and TV in Pakistan is a constant reminder of all the wrong things happening in our part of the world. This new show is one way to get people to focus on the positive and take a break from all the negativity in our lives. The new show is based on an entirely new format; it’s literally like walking into my house and having a chat with me. The set is very creatively designed and looks just like my house; hence, it is an ideal place to have intimate conversations with yours truly."
The show, intended as popular entertainment, was designed to air once a week, with a running time of around one hour or 40 minutes.

## Format

Episodes of Tonite with HSY usually open with a brief introduction of the invited guests, followed by an initial conversation between the host and guests. After around fifteen minutes, the main part of the episode begins. Episodes are divided into three segments:
* "Love 'em Hate 'em": the first segment, in which guests are shown a series of pictures of celebrities, and have five seconds to say for each whether they love or hate that person
* "Ajnabi Kaun Ho Tum": the second segment, in which each guest receives an anonymous phone call from family, friends, or colleagues and must guess the caller's name
* "Tarka": the third and final round, a Question and Answer session in which guests are given questions written on a card, and must take turns firing questions at each other

## Episodes
### Debut episode

The debut episode of Tonite with HSY premiered on 13 September 2014. It featured two of Pakistan's best-known faces, Mahira Khan and Fawad Khan.
In the episode, without introducing himself, HSY conducts a spontaneous interview with the guests before launching into the show's standard three-segment format. Mahira and Fawad are asked about their life, success, and achievements after their groundbreaking serial Humsafar. HSY then launches the show's three segments, running each with Mahira first and then Fawad. Mahira wins the game, taking the prize of a PKR 50,000 voucher/gift-hamper from the Contradictions furniture store.