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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.

  1. John Morton

    Creator

  2. Tony Roche

    Creator

Series Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Benedict Cumberbatch

    Will Parker

  2. Cast 1

    Claudia Christian

    Julia Regan - IBS

  3. Cast 1

    Duncan Duff

    Richard Pritchard - ESN

  4. Cast 1

    Sharon Horgan

    Katie Tate - ESN

  5. Cast 1

    Colin Stinton

    Anthony Markovitz

  6. Cast 1

    Steve Toussaint

    Adam Lockwood

  7. Cast 1

    Indira Varma

    Melanie Bellamy

  8. Cast 1

    Philip Brodie

    Colin Kay - So News

  9. Cast 1

    Tom Goodman-Hill

    Guy Batson - Go Sports

Last Season

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Season 1

2005 | 6 episodes

season 1 of Broken News premiered on Oct 31, 2005.

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Status Ended

Network Network

TypeScripted

Original LanguageEnglish 

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