Broken News

December 5, 2005 1:58 PM

And of course we'll keep you notified about that story as soon as we get any. But now. Still to come. A round-up of our reminders of all the news still to come so far. All that still to come. But first. Coming up next. [mostly RealMedia]
posted by ab'd al'Hazred (19 comments total)

Also tonight: a common household item - something we all have in our homes and are probably using right now - is found to be full of lethal poison. We'll tell you what it is at the end of the hour.
posted by Robot Johnny at 2:07 PM on December 5, 2005

Wow, it came back!
posted by spinoza at 2:16 PM on December 5, 2005

On the eleven o'clock news tonight, a certain kind of soft drink has been found to be lethal. We won't tell you which one until after sports and the weather with Funny Sonny Storm.
(11 year old joke)
posted by sysinfo at 2:18 PM on December 5, 2005

um...?
posted by quonsar at 2:20 PM on December 5, 2005

Are your children in danger? Tune in to tonight's report at eleven.
posted by NationalKato at 2:20 PM on December 5, 2005

A contender for bad news was on a particularly slow news day. During the credits for the preceding show, the overvoice began: "Coming up next on the news, the city fire chief says 'The city is literally burning down around us'!"

And then, during the commercials, a spot for the upcoming news, showing the news team already in position, the main newscaster says: "Stay tuned for Action News. The city fire chief says 'The city is literally burning down around us'!"

After the commercials, cue intro to the news. "Our top story tonight: The city fire chief says 'The city is literally burning down around us'! For more on this story we go to correspondent..."

Cut to correspondent. "Good evening, (whoever)! Today, in an exclusive interview with the city fire chief, he said 'The city is literally burning down around us'!"

Cut to videotape of the exclusive interview. Pictured is the city fire chief. "There are so many cases of arson this season that the city is literally burning down around us!"

That's it. That was their whole interview. Amazing.
posted by kablam at 2:28 PM on December 5, 2005

The wooden-handled chainsaw wins.
posted by fatllama at 3:18 PM on December 5, 2005

Kablam is dead on.... the sheer redundancy of all the overlapping summaries drives me nuts.
posted by rolypolyman at 3:31 PM on December 5, 2005

Reminds me a bit of the good work at CNNNN (the Chaser Non-stop News Network), on Australian TV a few years back.
posted by randomnoun at 3:31 PM on December 5, 2005

IVANOVA LIVES!
posted by WolfDaddy at 3:36 PM on December 5, 2005

Y'know, I liked it better when it was called The Day Today...
posted by Katemonkey at 3:58 PM on December 5, 2005

Look Out East's "Are teachers getting uglier?" story was a classic
posted by patricio at 4:04 PM on December 5, 2005

Y'know, I liked it better when it was called The Day Today...

I liked it even better when it was "On The Hour" because I could listen to it in the car.
posted by Mayor Curley at 4:06 PM on December 5, 2005

Ivanova is always right. I will always listen to Ivanova's recommendations. And if this ever happens again, Ivanova is going to personally rip your lungs out.
posted by arto at 4:48 PM on December 5, 2005

Exactly!
posted by sjvilla79 at 5:20 PM on December 5, 2005

What Katemonkey said. I despise the BBC's earnest attempts to do anything.
posted by oxala at 5:49 PM on December 5, 2005

Y'know, I liked it better when it was called The Day Today...

I think I'm likely to have liked it better when it was called The Sunday Format. Though I do like that they've kept the jump-cut style to parody 25 different fake networks, including 'IBS' - 'News of Americans, for Americans, by Americans.'
posted by holgate at 6:16 PM on December 5, 2005

Thanks Holgate! Since Broken News first aired I've been saying 'But it's exactly like that programme on the radio a few years back... you know, the one that was just like this, er, only with newspapers, and on Radio 4.'

Anyway, it's definitely more a Sunday Format than an OTH or TDTD, though not really a patch on any of them.
posted by jack_mo at 7:47 AM on December 6, 2005

Um, my acronyms have gone shocking. Sorry.
posted by jack_mo at 7:48 AM on December 6, 2005