Broken News
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*Broken News* is a comedy programme that aired on BBC Two in autumn 2005 and later on SBS-TV in Australia beginning 17 July 2006. The show satirized the format and conventions of 24-hour rolling news channels. Its title is a play on the term "breaking news." The programme used jump cuts to transition between its various spoof TV channels, which presented both a central story and other items of interest to their fictional audiences. A significant portion of the comedy focused on observations about the nature of news presentation rather than the content of the stories themselves.
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Season 16 episodes
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Claudia Christian
as Julia Regan - IBS
Duncan Duff
as Richard Pritchard - ESN
Sharon Horgan
as Katie Tate - ESN
Phil Nice
as Russ - Look Out East
Carli Norris
as Sarah Holt - Look Out East
Colin Stinton
as Anthony Markovitz - IBS
Steve Toussaint
as Adam Lockwood - PVS
Indira Varma
as Melanie Bellamy - ESN
Clare Wille
as Frances Walsh - PVS
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