Broken News BBC2 now

[wiskey]

i think i've got tomato flu!!

this format might get boring but atm its funny

wiskers

 

[Fullyplumped]

On The Hour - Chris Morris = Broken News

 

[strung out]

Just seemed like a poor The Day Today ripoff to me

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

It was extremely well observed, but I couldn't get rid of a nagging feeling that Chris Morris has done it all before, and better.

 

[JTG]

I particularly liked the local news joshing between the newsreaders and the weatherman. So local news

Could get old very quickly though, not a patch on The Day Today.

 

[DJWrongspeed]

It was extremely well observed, but I couldn't get rid of a nagging feeling that Chris Morris has done it all before, and better.

of course but as TV goes there's just not enough media jamming goin on and a weekly dose of this is just my cup of tea, loved the footy scores, standing news & share prices 'unleaded sugar' & aluminium dwarves

 

[_pH_]

European Comission on Childhood Stupidity

 

[DaveCinzano]

it wasn't really that much like 'the day today' or 'on the hour', more a televisual interpretation of 'the sunday format'.

i liked it

the local news and the bbc news 24 ones were particularly good

 

[DaveCinzano]

chris morris foretold the nightmare of rolling news; this and 'tsf' reflect how it actually is now. morris is bilious, angry; this is piss-takey.

 

[stavros]

I liked it a lot. It wasn't that similar to The Day Today as it was done from a lot of angles and at a totally frenetic pace. It was parodying stuff that simply wasn't around in the days of The Day Today.

Also The Day Today had a hell of a lot more than just Chris Morris. I'd probably take Armando Iannucci's catalogue over Morris' and Steve Coogan's not far behind.

 

[Nine Bob Note]

I managed to sit through the half hour, but I doubt I'll bother next week. It would be much better if they stuck to one story for a few minutes, then cut across to another channel to do another story, rather than splicing the whole lot together

 

[stavros]

I liked that format. The willy-nilly scraping for interest in nondescript stories that does happen on news channels is exactly it was taking the piss out of and it hit the target very well. This wouldn't be possible if it took it's time and the effect would be lost and it would just seem like The Day today again.

 

[Barking_Mad]

Didn't like it much, as above, Morris has done it better. I did like the observation of presenters finishing each others lines off though, that made me chuckle. Question is will it make people realise how shit/banal the news is? I presume that's the point?

 

[g force]

I agree that Morris foretold the rolling format and satirised it.

But now, with News 24, Sky News et al, plus how poor local news is, it's really gone beyond satirising. Parts of it were funny, but no more so that actually watching some of the filler News 24 has.

Way too patchy to be funny and the format grated after about 10 minutes. For me, it was the piss take of Amercia channels that provided the most laughs, but it was still no more than fairly well observed comedy done fairly well.

 

[fen_boy]

The local news was better than the actual Look East though.

 

[silentNate]

It had some brilliant moments- both the American IBS News and the walking news worked well and the tomato flu had me in stitches- that said I agree with the majority of comments here about Chris Morris having done it better and doubt this will be as entertaining by the third episode...

 

[WouldBe]

Broken news got it right last night in advance.

On their 'traffic report' a motorway had ground to a standstill due to a sudden influx of cars after a car transporter had overturned.

First thing I heard on the radio this morning was the M1 was closed in both directions between J29 and 30 after 2 car transporters had crashed spilling cars all over both carriage ways of the motorway.

No one was hurt in the accident but the M1 is expected to be closed for most of the day.

 

[Rocket Romano]

Its got BBC3 ego written all over it

 

[belboid]

it wasn't really that much like 'the day today' or 'on the hour', more a televisual interpretation of 'the sunday format'.

spot on.

probably why i didnt particularly like it. tho there were moments and several good lines, they were too easilly lost amongst the boredom. which is a bit like local/rolling news in its way....

 

[Belzub]

I watched it once. That's one laughter-free half hour I won't be getting back.

 

[Dubversion]

i've watched it twice now, and fallen asleep both times.

 

[Dask]

Just seemed like a poor The Day Today ripoff to me

Yup I thought exactly the same thing.

Very very un funny.

I'm sure Iannucci, Morris & Coogan think the same thing

 

[fractionMan]

It's utter pants.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

On The Hour - Chris Morris = Broken News

Aint that the truth; it was crap utter crap when you've seen Brass Eye/The Day Today...

 

[kyser_soze]

I've founds the trick is to concentrate on the multiple scolling news bites on the screens, especially the city news channel, which are by and large far funnier than the scripted stuff.

Bit too hit and miss to make it essential...different to TDT and BE too...they focussed on a single show formart, whereas this looks like channel surfing, and one of the cool things is the way 'breaking news' breaks across the channels and you get the 'muiltiple views of the same thing' effect - the dissappearing artic research station in the first ep was a prime example of 'on the spot' news reporting, finally ending with IBS taking the piss out of Europeans for loosing a whole island as the story wound it's way across the newsrooms...

 

[blamblam]

Oh my god I can't believe this. And from people whose tastes I respected as well!

It's absolutely fucking unbelievably awful. Like that shitty fake science education show a while back, as my housemate said it's like some 6th form muppets watched some Chris Morris and tried to copy it. And with Broken News seems like they got a big budget to do so. It's like The Green Wing of spoof news comedy.

 

[e-fluent]

It isn't funny.