GB News looks set to axe Headliners, its daily paper review show featuring predominantly ‘anti-woke’ comedians offering satirical takes on the next day’s headlines. The Telegraphhas more.
Presenters of the Right-wing, late night panel show appeared to suggest on Saturday that it could be taken off air within a fortnight.
Lewis Schaffer, one of the show’s panellists, posted on X: “I’m heading into the studio! I’ve been told by management that the show will be on air for another two weeks while they decide what to do!”
At the start of Saturday’s show, Mr Schaffer said: “We’re not allowed to talk about it.” Leo Kearse, the Headliner’s host, replied: “Thank you for not talking about it.”
GB News declined to comment on the show’s future.
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The uncertainty comes after Headliners, a comic spin on traditional newspaper review shows, was hit with tens of thousands of complaints after one of its hosts appeared to suggest the LGBTQ+ community included paedophiles.
The remarks, by the comedian Josh Howie, are now the subject of an Ofcom investigation. In a segment discussing a sermon by a US bishop, which urged Donald Trump to “have mercy” on gay, lesbian and transgender children, Mr Howie quoted a statement from the bishop’s church calling for the full inclusion of LGBTQ+ people. He said: “I just want to say, that includes paedos, if you’re doing the full inclusion.”
The Headliners segment triggered more than 1,200 complaints by viewers, as well as a petition signed by more than 70,000 people from campaign group the Good Law Project that has been handed to the regulator.
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