TV Show Details
Air Date:October 31st, 2005
Last Air Date:December 5th, 2005
Network:BBC Two
Status:Ended
Original Language:English
Production Companies:BBC
Broken News on the Web:Official Website
TV Show Tags:
satire
Broken News (2005)
BBC Two
Scripted
TV Series
Audience Score
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.
