The News Hole [SEP] original network
The News Hole
The News Hole with Harry Shearer is a 1994 game show that aired on Comedy Central from October 26 to November 19, 1994. The show won a CableACE award in December 1995.
In the "Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows", Schwartz, Ryan, and Wostbrock describe the show as a "spoof [of] news-based quiz shows."
original run in all other ITV regions. Another networked sitcom, "The Nineteenth Hole", starring Eric Sykes, was dropped mid-run after complaints from viewers regarding its politically incorrect humour.
- "The ITV Chart Show" was dropped on occasions (mostly for special programmes) so that TSW could show its weekly news review for deaf people, "The South West Week".
Additionally, Channel Television, the ITV contractor for the Channel Islands required a network feed from another nearby ITV region on the mainland