Uutisvuoto

Uutisvuoto (Finnish for "newsleak" - the pun works equally in both languages) is the Finnish version of the popular British television quiz show Have I Got News For You. Broadcast on Saturday nights on Yle TV1 since 1998, the show received very high viewing figures. Uutisvuoto was aired on Yle TV1 from 1998 until May 2018, then moved to MTV3 in January 2019.

Uutisvuoto
Written byYasir Gaily
Teemu Vesterinen[1]
Presented byBaba Lybeck (2010–2018)
Peter Nyman (1998–2010; 2019–present)
StarringJari Tervo
Stan Saanila
Tommy Tabermann (1998–2007)
Original languageFinnish
No. of episodes700[2]
Production
Running time30 minutes (1998–2017)
45 minutes (2017–2018)
60 minutes with ad breaks (2019–present)
Production companyBanijay Finland
Release
Original networkYle TV1 (1998–2018)
MTV3 (2019–present)
Original release1998 (1998) –
present
External links
Website

Uutisvuoto mainly follows the same format as Have I Got News For You. The guests are usually celebrities, and frequently politicians. In two presidential elections, both of the second-round candidates appeared as guests: to-be-president Tarja Halonen and Esko Aho in 2000, and president Halonen and Sauli Niinistö in 2006. Winning the show correlated with winning the election contest itself in both instances. In 2006, the "presidential show" broke all viewing records when it was watched by 1.4 million viewers (in a country of 5.2 million).

The show was so popular in Finland that it was even parodied in the Aku Ankka (Finnish for Donald Duck) comic book as Uutiskuono (news muzzle/snout).

"Haluatteko lukea hyvän vitsin jonka kuulin äsken Yleisradion kahvilassa?" ("Do you want to read a good joke which I just heard at the Yleisradio's cafeteria?") (ISBN 951-0-29690-2) is Peter Nyman's Uutisvuoto joke book. The book's name is a reference to Nyman's way of telling jokes. He opens with the book's name, then, ignoring all answers, continues: "Ei se mitään, kerron sen silti." ("Doesn't matter, I'll tell it anyway.")

Performers

The host of Uutisvuoto was originally Peter Nyman. In 2010, journalist Baba Lybeck took over. Novelist Jari Tervo was one of the permanent team captains for the entire history of the show until 2017. His pair was originally poet Tommy Tabermann, who resigned after being elected to the Finnish parliament in 2006. Tabermann was eventually replaced by comedian Stan Saanila until 2017. Both teams also included a weekly guest member, often a politician or a journalist.

References
  1. http://ohjelmat.yle.fi/uutisvuoto/tekijat
  2. Mankkinen, Jussi (26 May 2018). "Suosikkiohjelma Uutisvuoto päättyy". YLE Uutiset (in Finnish). Retrieved 26 May 2018.
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