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.

Cast

Benedict Cumberbatch

Will Parker

Claudia Christian

Julia Regan - IBS

Duncan Duff

Richard Pritchard - ESN

Sharon Horgan

Katie Tate - ESN

Colin Stinton

Anthony Markovitz

Steve Toussaint

Adam Lockwood

Indira Varma

Melanie Bellamy

Philip Brodie

Colin Kay - So News

Tom Goodman-Hill

Guy Batson - Go Sports

Sarah Hadland

Claire - Traffic Reports