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Broken News

20051 Season30m episodes7.7

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Runtime: 30m episodes
Genre: Comedy
Certificate: NR
Origin: GB

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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.

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Writing: Tony Roche, John Morton
Status: Ended
First aired: Oct 31, 2005
Network: BBC Two
Studio: BBC

Time to finish

3 hrs

6 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

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SERIES

Broken News

20051 Season30m episodes7.7

Comedy, News

TMDB7.7

Votes7

Your rating

Runtime: 30m episodes
Genre: Comedy
Certificate: NR
Origin: GB

About

Where to watch

Region

Not available to stream in United States yet.

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E1 · Airs Oct 31, 2005 · 30m
Tomato Flu
An outbreak of tomato flu is in the headlines. This alarming new super-virus (a parody of avian flu) can be traced back to a turkey farm in Turkey. The news networks advise on the best way to avoid tomatoids in food such as tomato ketchup. In other news: a man is injured by a frozen block of urine.
E2 · Airs Nov 7, 2005 · 30m
Missing Island
A report that an island has gone missing in the Barents Sea triggers paranoia about rising sea levels in Lincolnshire and the end of the world as we know it. In other news: teenagers' attention spans are now as low as eleven seconds.
E3 · Airs Nov 14, 2005 · 30m
Half Way There Day
Reports on commemorations around the country to mark the day Britain reached the half-way point in the last World War. In other news: The MADI music awards are here again, without last year's controversy.
E4 · Airs Nov 21, 2005 · 30m
Crime
The publication of a Home Office report which reveals that the majority of teenagers are now criminals leads to a series of news stories from the country's worst-hit areas. A picture of Britain in which the teenage population "now effectively feral, roam Britain's urban landscapes in packs of up to fifteen at a single time." In other news: East Anglia could be gone within a decade.
E5 · Airs Nov 28, 2005 · 30m
Bolivian Crisis
Reaction comes from around the world to rumours that Bolivia might have acquired nuclear weapons. Including a report from The White House: This is a bad day for the good guys, President Bush. In other news: A cross-eyed man kills a horse while trying to shoot himself.
E6 · Airs Dec 5, 2005 · 30m
Hijack
Media frenzy is quick to follow after reports emerge of an apparent hijack of an American passenger flight bound for Amsterdam. This live breaking story dominates the running orders of the world's news networks. In other news: An injunction has been served on Josh Cashman.

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Writing: Tony Roche, John Morton
Status: Ended
First aired: Oct 31, 2005
Network: BBC Two
Studio: BBC

Time to finish

3 hrs

6 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

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