Broken News

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.

Created by John Morton, Tony Roche

Network

• BBC Two

Seasons & Episodes

Cast

• 

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Will Parker

  6 eps

• 

  Claudia Christian

  Julia Regan - IBS

  6 eps

• 

  Duncan Duff

  Richard Pritchard - ESN

  6 eps

• 

  Sharon Horgan

  Katie Tate - ESN

  6 eps

Themes

• satire

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