Have I Got News For You Audience Graph • Social Signal

At 0.87, Gary Lineker — an athlete — is the single strongest pull in Have I Got News For You's top 10, while Private Eye Magazine (0.85) forms a second, distinct cluster anchored in British political satire and print media. These two neighbors define the show's two-peak shape: one peak in sports media, one in current-affairs commentary.

The sports peak is real and sustained. Lineker (0.87) is joined by BBC Radio 5 Live (0.81), Match of the Day (0.81), and Sky Sports (0.75) — all sports-adjacent broadcast properties. The commentary peak runs through Private Eye (0.85), Brian Cox (0.79) as an academic, Boris Johnson (0.79) as a politician, and BBC Radio 4 (0.79). Jimmy Carr (0.77) is the only comedian in the top 10, and BBC Radio 6 Music (0.77) is the one outlier that fits neither cluster cleanly. Among the top 10, only Match of the Day shares the center entity's own subcategory of TV Shows.

The shape reveals an audience that moves between sports broadcasting and politically engaged current-affairs media — two distinct neighborhoods that this show's audience inhabits simultaneously.

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