Broken News

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.

Comedy News

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)