Broken News (2005)

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.

Broken News

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Benedict Cumberbatch

Benedict Cumberbatch

Claudia Christian

Claudia Christian

as Julia Regan - IBS

as Richard Pritchard - ESN

as Katie Tate - ESN

as Anthony Markovitz

Steve Toussaint

Steve Toussaint

as Adam Lockwood

as Melanie Bellamy

as Colin Kay - So News

Tom Goodman-Hill

Tom Goodman-Hill

as Guy Batson - Go Sports

as Claire - Traffic Reports

as Sam French - Bullet Points Presenter

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

Belinda Stewart-Wilson

Belinda Stewart-Wilson

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Seasons

Season 1

Season 1

Episodes season 1

1x1

Tomato flu
1x2

Missing island
1x3

Half way there day
1x4

Crime
1x5

Bolivian crisis
1x6

Hijack

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