Sam Delaney's News Thing

{{Short description|Current affairs television series}}

{{Redirect|Sam Delaney|the American author and academic|Samuel Delany}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2017}}

{{Use British English|date=August 2016}}

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Sam Delaney's News Thing was a television programme produced by RT UK and presented by British journalist and broadcaster Sam Delaney, that aired every Saturday night from November 2015 until June 2018.

Notable guest appearances included Ken Livingstone, former mayor of London,{{cite web |url=http://talkradio.co.uk/news/sam-delaney-and-ken-livingstone-relive-kens-glory-days-1609264633 |title=Sam Delaney and Ken Livingstone relive Ken's Glory Days | talkRADIO |website=talkradio.co.uk |access-date=15 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161023192637/http://talkradio.co.uk/news/sam-delaney-and-ken-livingstone-relive-kens-glory-days-1609264633 |archive-date=23 October 2016 |url-status=dead}} Calum Morson, a notable Sunderland AFC fan and John Prescott, Labour peer and former deputy prime minister.{{cite news|date=3 June 2016|title=John Prescott to clash with Ken Livingstone on Russia Today|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jun/03/john-prescott-ken-livingstone-russia-today|accessdate=30 August 2016}} A clip of the show that was widely shared online was a prank where a child was dressed up as the Queen to knight Nigel Farage, but had been primed by Delaney to say "My mummy says you hate foreigners."{{cite news |last1=Delaney |first1=Sam |title='We were astounded by the freedom': my time as a host on Russia's RT TV |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/aug/18/we-were-astounded-by-the-freedom-my-time-as-a-host-on-russias-rt-tv |access-date=1 May 2022 |work=the Guardian |date=18 August 2018 |language=en}} Commenting on the segment, Jim Waterson said it was "unclear" how a show with material like this fitted into the image of RT being a Kremlin propaganda front.{{cite news |last1=Waterson |first1=Jim |title=Nigel Farage Was Knighted By A Small Child On Russia Today |url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/the-dark-knight |access-date=1 May 2022 |work=BuzzFeed |date=3 March 2017 |language=en-gb}}

On 3 June 2016, the show was guest hosted by John Prescott and temporarily titled John Prescott's News Thing.{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}

The series was cancelled in 2018 when RT reduced its amount of independently-made output.