Broken News

Oct 31, 2005 (en) Comedy, News [30] Min
  • First Air Date
    Oct 31, 2005
  • Production
    BBC
  • Rotten tomato
    73%
  • Original title
    Broken News
  • Release
    Oct 31, 2005
  • en
    -

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.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Jon Plowman

    Producer

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Casts

  1. Benedict Cumberbatch

    Will Parker

  2. Claudia Christian

    Julia Regan - IBS

  3. Duncan Duff

    Richard Pritchard - ESN

  4. Sharon Horgan

    Katie Tate - ESN

  5. Colin Stinton

    Anthony Markovitz

  6. Steve Toussaint

    Adam Lockwood

  7. Indira Varma

    Melanie Bellamy

  8. Philip Brodie

    Colin Kay - So News

  9. Tom Goodman-Hill

    Guy Batson - Go Sports

  10. Sarah Hadland

    Claire - Traffic Reports

  11. Pip Torrens

    Sam French - Bullet Points Presenter

  12. Darren Boyd

    Nick Burham

  13. Nicola Walker

    Katie Willard

  14. Clare Wille

    Frances Walsh

  15. James Howard

    Kevin Peters

  16. Max Digby

    Andrew Adams

  17. Roger Barclay

    Mitchell Oatis - Aronovitz

  18. Preeya Kalidas

    Anita Ratchathani

  19. Lorelei King

    Loren Peterson

  20. John Chancer

    Tom Mitchell

  21. Jonathan Aris

    Stewart Frewett - ESN Network Reporter

  22. Ian Duncan

    Todd Todmore - World Money Today

  23. Andrew Havill

    Nicholas Michaelmass - ESN Network Reporter

  24. Lauren Ward

    Alecia - IBS

Full Casts & Crew

Casts : 24 / Crews : 3

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Oct 31, 2005 (en)
Comedy, News
[30] Min
  • First Air Date Oct 31, 2005
  • Production
    BBC
  • Rotten tomato 73%
Original Title Broken News
en

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.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Jon Plowman

    Producer