Underplayed Gems

Uutisvuoto (1998)

Uutisvuoto poster
Genre
comedy
Country
Finland
Length
3 seasons, 700 episodes
Rating
4.8 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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A panel show where teams of celebrity guests and politicians make jokes about the week's news. It is the Finnish version of a popular British format and was broadcast on Saturday nights.

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What happens

Uutisvuoto (Finnish for "newsleak" - the pun works equally in both languages) is the Finnish version of the popular British panel show Have I Got News For You. Broadcast on Saturday nights on Yle TV1 from 1998 until 2018, 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 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). Peter Nyman's catchphrase "Haluatteko lukea hyvän vitsin jonka kuulin äsken Yleisradion kahvilassa?" ("Do you want to read a good joke which I just heard in Yleisradio's cafeteria?") is the show's running gag. Ignoring all answers, continues: "Ei se mitään, kerron sen silti." ("Doesn't matter, I'll tell it anyway.") The show later became the title of Nyman's joke book. (ISBN 951-0-29690-2) Peter Nyman left in 2010 after jumping ship to MTV3, and was replaced by Baba Lybeck. When the show swapped to MTV3 in 2019, Nyman returned, yet the show was axed at the end of that year. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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