page_title: Newsjack
section_title: Production
hierarchical_section_title: Newsjack / Production
caption_attribution_description: English: British stand-up comedian, actor, and radio presenter, Nish Kumar.
context_page_description: Newsjack is a satirical sketch show broadcast on British radio. It is currently hosted by Kiri Pritchard-McLean and previously by Miles Jupp, Justin Edwards, Romesh Ranganathan, Nish Kumar and Angela Barnes. It was first broadcast on BBC Radio 7 on 4 June 2009. The series is notable for having an "Open door" policy on writing, advertising itself as "the scrapbook sketch show written entirely by the Great British public" meaning that unsolicited writers without contract to the BBC can send in material. The show is designed to give new writers an opportunity to get material broadcast. It is hoped by the people behind the show that it may become a modern version of Week Ending, an earlier sketch show which also accepted material the same way. It is recorded in front of a live audience at the BBC Radio Theatre in Broadcasting House.
context_section_description: Newsjack, was always intended to be an "Open door" show in terms of writing. However, it first became known in early 2009 when it launched a competition to find new comedy writers for the show. The winners of this competition went on to a masterclass on comedy writing with David Mitchell on 9 March 2009. Although originally Gareth Edwards was intended to be producer for the show, the job of producer eventually went to Tilusha Ghelani and Sam Michell. The current producers are Hayley Sterling and Leila Navabi.
  The show was first broadcast as a pilot on 4 June 2009. This pilot was broadcast first so as to give a guide to new writers about the sort of material that the programme was looking for. The first deadline for new material was 15 June 2009 at noon. While the first series was originally intended to run for ten weeks, this was reduced to the pilot and six episodes, one per week. In total there have been twenty-two series of six episodes, and two compilation episodes: a review of the year episode, broadcast on New Year's Eve 2011, and shortly before series eight, a programme 'Newsjack Revisited' broadcast on Radio 4, featuring the best sketches from previous series seven.  The episodes are also available to download as a podcast.
  Transmission dates are as follows.  The programme is normally broadcast on a Thursday evening on BBC Radio 4 Extra and repeated the following Sunday.
  Pilot: 4 June 2009
  Series 1: 18 June 2009 – 23 July 2009
  Series 2: 7 January 2010 – 11 February 2010
  Series 3: 17 June 2010 – 22 July 2010
  Series 4: 10 February 2011 – 17 March 2011
  Series 5: 15 September 2011 – 20 October 2011
  The Newsjack Review of the Year (compilation from series 5): 31 December 2011
  Series 6: 23 February 2012 – 29 March 2012
  Series 7: 20 September 2012 – 25 October 2012
  Newsjack Revisited (compilation from series 7, broadcast on BBC Radio 4): 13 February 2013
  Series 8: 14 February 2013 – 21 March 2013
  Series 9: 19 September 2013 – 24 October 2013
  Series 10: 6 March 2014 – 10 April 2014
  Series 11: 25 September 2014 – 30 October 2014
  Series 12: 26 February 2015 – 2 April 2015
  Series 13: 9 September 2015 – 14 October 2015
  Series 14: 11 February 2016 – 17 March 2016
  Series 15: 8 September 2016 – 13 October 2016
  Series 16: 26 January 2017 – 2 March 2017
  Series 17: 14 September 2017 - 19 October 2017
  Series 18: 8 February 2018 - 18 March 2018
  Series 19: 13 September 2018 - 18 October 2018
  Series 20: 7 February 2019 - 14 March 2019
  Series 21: 12 September 2019 - 17 October 2019
  Series 22: 13 February 2020 - 19 March 2020
  The final episode of series 22 (broadcast on 19 March 2020) had no studio audience, as the recording was subject to restrictions caused by the Covid-19 outbreak in the UK. It starred Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Chiara Goldsmith, George Fouracres and Ed Easton. It was produced by Leila Navabi and Hayley Sterling.
caption: Nish Kumar in January 2016
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