Broken News
tv show
6 total episodes
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1 seasons
First Aired October 31, 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.
Cast
Benedict Cumberbatch
as
Will Parker
Claudia Christian
as
Julia Regan - IBS
Duncan Duff
as
Richard Pritchard - ESN
Sharon Horgan
as
Katie Tate - ESN
Colin Stinton
as
Anthony Markovitz
Steve Toussaint
as
Adam Lockwood
Indira Varma
as
Melanie Bellamy
Philip Brodie
as
Colin Kay - So News
Tom Goodman-Hill
as
Guy Batson - Go Sports
Sarah Hadland
as
Claire - Traffic Reports
Pip Torrens
as
Sam French - Bullet Points Presenter
Darren Boyd
as
Nick Burham