Broken News (2005– )

Stars:

Claudia Christian, Duncan Duff, Sharon Horgan

Cast

Series cast summary:
Claudia Christian	...	Julia Regan - IBS (6 episodes, 2005)
Duncan Duff	...	Richard Pritchard - ESN (6 episodes, 2005)
Sharon Horgan	...	Katie Tate - ESN (6 episodes, 2005)
Phil Nice	...	Russ - Look Out East (6 episodes, 2005)
Carli Norris	...	Sarah Holt - Look Out East (6 episodes, 2005)
Colin Stinton	...	Anthony Markovitz - IBS (6 episodes, 2005)
Steve Toussaint	...	Adam Lockwood - PVS (6 episodes, 2005)
Indira Varma	...	Melanie Bellamy - ESN (6 episodes, 2005)
Kim Wall	...	Phil Curdridge - Look Out East (6 episodes, 2005)
Clare Wille	...	Frances Walsh - PVS (6 episodes, 2005)
Joanna Bobin	...	Natalie Gosling - Go Sports (6 episodes, 2005)
Philip Brodie	...	Colin Kay - So News (6 episodes, 2005)
Tom Goodman-Hill	...	Guy Batson - Go Sports (6 episodes, 2005)
Sarah Hadland	...	Claire - Traffic Reports (6 episodes, 2005)
James Howard	...	Kevin Peters (6 episodes, 2005)
Phil Nichol	...	Josh Cashman - So News (6 episodes, 2005)
Lucy Porter	...	Claudia Van Sant - So News (6 episodes, 2005)
Roderic Culver	...	Richard Harbinger (PVS -- Network Reporter) (6 episodes, 2005)
Pip Torrens	...	Sam French - Bullet Points Presenter (6 episodes, 2005)
Simon Scardifield	...	Nick Andrews - Look Out East Network Reporter (6 episodes, 2005)
Robin Weaver	...	Penny Watson - Look Out East Network Reporter (6 episodes, 2005)
Amber Agha	...	Laura Berthould (6 episodes, 2005)
Ashley Blake	...	Alexis Fantom - ESN Reporter (6 episodes, 2005)
Sumit Bose	...	Andrew Clayton (6 episodes, 2005)
Rob Butler	...	Andrew Farley (6 episodes, 2005)
Max Digby	...	Andrew Adams (6 episodes, 2005)
Melissa Lloyd	...	Sam Graham - Bullet Points Presenter (6 episodes, 2005)
Roger Barclay	...	Mitchell Oatis - Aronovitz (5 episodes, 2005)
Kevin Day	...	Gary Mills - Aronovitz (5 episodes, 2005)
Lauren Ward	...	Alecia - IBS (5 episodes, 2005)
Alice Arnold	...	Sam Foskett - Bullet Points Presenter (5 episodes, 2005)
Darren Boyd	...	Nick Burnham (5 episodes, 2005)
Beth Chalmers	...	Laura Hughes (5 episodes, 2005)
Sian Jones	...	Wendy Fox - Weather (5 episodes, 2005)
Kate Maravan	...	Laura Dunnford (5 episodes, 2005)
Preeya Kalidas	...	Anita Ratchathani (5 episodes, 2005)
Tom Skippings	...	Andrew Evans (5 episodes, 2005)
Lorelei King	...	Loren Peterson (IBS -- Network Reporter) (4 episodes, 2005)
John Schwab	...	Miles Anderton (IBS -- Network Reporter) (4 episodes, 2005)
Jon Briggs	...	Joe Alloway - Weather (4 episodes, 2005)
Derek Gibbons	...	Joe Randall (4 episodes, 2005)
Sunita Shroff	...	Wendy Sandhu - Weather (4 episodes, 2005)
Wendy Wason	...	Wendy Watts - Weather (4 episodes, 2005)
Joanna Ampil	...	Michelle Wong - World Money Today (4 episodes, 2005)
John Chancer	...	Tom Mitchell - World Money Today (4 episodes, 2005)
Ian Duncan	...	Todd Todmore - World Money Today (4 episodes, 2005)
Chris French	...	Dan Evans - World Money Today (4 episodes, 2005)
Britta Gartner	...	Katerina Schultheiss - World Money Today (4 episodes, 2005)
Jack Gustav	...	Johan Fleischer - World Money Today (4 episodes, 2005)
Haruka Kuroda	...	Kyoko Ogura - World Money Today (4 episodes, 2005)
Luis Soto	...	Francis Xavier-Menensez - World Money Today (4 episodes, 2005)
Ralph Van Dijk	...	Brett Mackensie - World Money Today (4 episodes, 2005)
Benedict Cumberbatch	...	Will Parker (3 episodes, 2005)
Tim Bentinck	...	Ben Black (3 episodes, 2005)
Hugh Parker	...	Justin Rustin - ESN Network Reporter (3 episodes, 2005)
Stuart Nurse	...	Sam Gregory - Bullet Points Presenter (3 episodes, 2005)
Nicola Walker	...	Katie Willard (3 episodes, 2005)
Lauretta Gavin	...	Wendy Bridge - Weather (3 episodes, 2005)
Yiolanda Koppel	...	Wendy Allan - Weather (3 episodes, 2005)
Belinda Stewart-Wilson	...	Amanda Panda (3 episodes, 2005)
Lucy Briers	...	Sam Henman - Bullet Points Presenter (2 episodes, 2005)
Nicholas Rowe	...	Ben Green (2 episodes, 2005)

Storyline

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Taglines:

5 continents, 25 channels, 227 reporters...All the news you're ever going to need in 30 minutes.

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Genres:

Comedy

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Details

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

20 October 2005 (UK)

Company Credits

Production Co:

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

User Reviews

Not just a rip-off

A number of reviewers here feel that "Broken News" is somehow a shallow rip-off of Chris Morris's work on "Brass Eye" and "The Day Today". I couldn't disagree more.

There's no bigger fan than me when it comes to Chris Morris's brilliantly scabrous spoof news work from the 80s and 90s, but come on folks! Just because a new generation of writers and performers wants to explore a similar strand of comedy/satire, that doesn't make them rip-off merchants. Nobody's pretending that they're the first people to have ploughed this particular comic furrow (and actually, neither was Chris Morris: he was very much following in the footsteps of arch prankster Victor Lewis-Smith). I'm sure the writers of "Broken News" would be the first to acknowledge the debt they owe to such pioneers.

In fact, what the BN team have created is something deliciously sophisticated and different. Unlike Morris, whose news parody tended toward an exaggerated, cartoonish style, BN's chief strength is in subtlety of detail: it looks and sounds so utterly (and hilariously) like the real thing!

Anyone who enjoyed "Broken News" as much as I did should also check out the same team's BBC radio show, "The Sunday Format", which uses similar techniques to parody the content of British Sunday newspaper supplements. Brilliant stuff.