Broken News
Premiered: Oct 31, 2005 | 1 seasons | 6 episodes
Popularity: 3
| Creator: | Tony Roche, John Morton |
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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. |
| Name | Character | Episodes |
|---|---|---|
| Benedict Cumberbatch | Will Parker | 6 |
| Pip Torrens | Sam French - Bullet Points Presenter | 6 |
| Indira Varma | Melanie Bellamy | 6 |
| Nicola Walker | Katie Willard | 6 |
| Jonathan Aris | Stewart Frewett - ESN Network Reporter | 6 |
| Claudia Christian | Julia Regan - IBS | 6 |
| Andrew Havill | Nicholas Michaelmass - ESN Network Reporter | 6 |
| Preeya Kalidas | Anita Ratchathani | 6 |
| Darren Boyd | Nick Burham | 6 |
| Sharon Horgan | Katie Tate - ESN | 6 |
| Ian Duncan | Todd Todmore - World Money Today | 6 |
| Philip Brodie | Colin Kay - So News | 6 |
| Colin Stinton | Anthony Markovitz | 6 |
| Roger Barclay | Mitchell Oatis - Aronovitz | 6 |
| Sarah Hadland | Claire - Traffic Reports | 6 |
| Steve Toussaint | Adam Lockwood | 6 |
| Lorelei King | Loren Peterson | 6 |
| Duncan Duff | Richard Pritchard - ESN | 6 |
| Lauren Ward | Alecia - IBS | 6 |
| Tom Goodman-Hill | Guy Batson - Go Sports | 6 |
| Belinda Stewart-Wilson | 3 |