Broken News
31/10/2005



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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.
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


Pip Torrens
Sam French - Bullet Points Presenter


Darren Boyd
Nick Burham


Nicola Walker
Katie Willard


Clare Wille
Frances Walsh
James Howard
Kevin Peters
Max Digby
Andrew Adams


Roger Barclay
Mitchell Oatis - Aronovitz


Preeya Kalidas
Anita Ratchathani
Lorelei King
Loren Peterson


John Chancer
Tom Mitchell


Jonathan Aris
Stewart Frewett - ESN Network Reporter
Ian Duncan
Todd Todmore - World Money Today


Andrew Havill
Nicholas Michaelmass - ESN Network Reporter


Lauren Ward
Alecia - IBS
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