Broken News(2005)

Broken News is a British comedy series that satirises 24-hour rolling news channels. Airing on BBC Two in autumn 2005, the show cuts between spoof TV networks covering the same stories from wildly different angles and priorities. Rather than relying on plot-driven humour, the comedy emerges from sharp observations about how news is presented—the sensationalism, the editorial choices, the manufactured urgency. Each channel's take on events reveals absurdities in modern broadcast journalism. The title itself plays on "breaking news," the phrase that drives the format. Broken News finds comedy in the mechanics of news delivery itself, exposing how the same facts become entirely different stories depending on who's telling them and what their agenda might be.