Broken News(2005)
Overview
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.
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Top 10 Billed Cast
Will Parker
Julia Regan - IBS
Richard Pritchard - ESN
Katie Tate - ESN
Anthony Markovitz
Adam Lockwood
Melanie Bellamy
Colin Kay - So News
Guy Batson - Go Sports
Claire - Traffic Reports
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