Broken News (2005)
Broken News is a comedy programme shown on BBC Two in autumn 2005 and in Australia on SBS-TV from the 17 July 2006. The show poked fun at the world of 24-hour rolling news channels. The title of the show is a play on the phrase "breaking news". The show jump cut between its various spoof TV channels, which covered both the central story and other stories that would be of interest to their audience. A large part of the comedy came from observations about the nature of news presentation rather than the stories themselves.
Comedy, News
Cast
- Benedict Cumberbatch — Will Parker
- Claudia Christian — Julia Regan - IBS
- Duncan Duff — Richard Pritchard - ESN
- Sharon Horgan — Katie Tate - ESN
- Colin Stinton — Anthony Markovitz
- Steve Toussaint — Adam Lockwood
- Indira Varma — Melanie Bellamy
- Philip Brodie — Colin Kay - So News
- Tom Goodman-Hill — Guy Batson - Go Sports
- Sarah Hadland — Claire - Traffic Reports
- Pip Torrens — Sam French - Bullet Points Presenter
- Darren Boyd — Nick Burham
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- Mock the Week (2005)
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- Key & Peele (2012)
- Nick Cannon Presents: Wild 'N Out (2005)
- All That (1994)
- Coach (1989)
- The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1950)
- The Brittas Empire (1991)
- The Amanda Show (1999)
- Murphy Brown (1988)
- The Carol Burnett Show (1967)
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- MAD (2010)
- Happy Days (1974)
- Harry Hill's TV Burp (2002)
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