Could the public radio show “Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!” soon have a weekly perch on television? )” 
 
 The Times has a partnership with “Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me” for a weekly news quiz in the Sunday Review section of the newspaper. The television special for BBC America, to be taped in Chicago on Dec. 2, seems designed to preserve the intimacy and spontaneity of radio. Host Peter Sagal, scorekeeper Carl Kasell and a panel including Paula Poundstone and Alonzo Bodden will discuss 2011's biggest events. Reflecting the relationship with the British broadcaster, it will include both an “American and British perspective,” according to a news release on Wednesday, “and will also include listener contests and celebrity guests from both sides of the pond.” 
 
 Doug Berman, the series creator, said in a statement, “It’s going to be pretty much what we do every week, except NPR has to add a budget line for pants.” 
 
 December’s one-hour special will be the first time NPR has partnered with BBC America.
– NPR's popular Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me is heading for the bright lights of television. The quiz show will get a one-hour special that will air Dec. 23 on the cable channel BBC America, reports AP. The New York Times sees it as a "try-out of sorts"—if it does well, expect to see more next year. Host Peter Sagal wasn't divulging much: "No comment. (I've always wanted to say that to the New York Times.)" The shows draws 3.2 million weekly listeners on the radio.