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.
6 Episodes
as Will Parker
as Julia Regan - IBS
as Richard Pritchard - ESN
as Katie Tate - ESN
as Anthony Markovitz
as Adam Lockwood
as Melanie Bellamy
as Colin Kay - So News
as Guy Batson - Go Sports
as Claire - Traffic Reports
as Sam French - Bullet Points Presenter
as Nick Burham
as Katie Willard
as Frances Walsh
as Kevin Peters
as Andrew Adams
as Mitchell Oatis - Aronovitz
as Anita Ratchathani
as Loren Peterson
as Tom Mitchell
as Stewart Frewett - ESN Network Reporter
as Todd Todmore - World Money Today
as Nicholas Michaelmass - ESN Network Reporter
as Alecia - IBS
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