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10* This is quite common on [[PanelGame panel shows]] where the format gets mixed around quite a lot in the early days and not every component remains. The first episode of ''Series/HaveIGotNewsForYou'' featured ''eight'' different rounds, only four of which survived to the show's better-known format.
11** Anyone who has only started watching ''Have I Got News For You'' since 2003 may be surprised to learn that the show once had a regular host at all, never mind it being Creator/AngusDeayton.
12** The first two series of ''Series/WouldILieToYou'' featured more rounds and questions, a completely different set and the deadpan Deayton as host. The show didn't really achieve success until it cut out the less amusing rounds, got a set with a brighter colour scheme and the more lively Creator/RobBrydon as host.
13** Played in the first two series of ''Series/MockTheWeek'', in which Rory Bremner's impressions are a key part of the comedy before being dropped once he left the show.
14** In the first series, all six panellists participated in the Wheel Of News round. This was dropped to four in Series 2, three in Series 9, and then just two in Series 11.
15** For the first two series of ''Series/{{QI}}'', the 'obvious but wrong' answers were written on cards, which Stephen Fry would reveal when the answer was given as well as the sirens and flashing screens. In the very first proper episode, ''only'' the cards were used. And for the show's first couple of series, Alan Davies would inevitably finish last almost every episode, usually by a long way, and exceptions invariably involved a surprise that saw him win. From around the D Series, Alan finishing somewhere in the middle started to become a more common occurrence.
16** The first ''Series/BigFatQuizOfTheYear'' (in 2004) had twelve rounds, one for each month, but subsequent years had six rounds by merging the months, while adding a few bonus rounds, before the rounds became topic-based in 2010. The first year also lacks a question where Jon Snow describes a song as if it were a news story, and he wouldn't dance along to the song until 2013 (to ''[[Music/MeghanTrainor All About That Bass]]'').
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