This is screening in Australia ATM, and the makers of this show should be ashamed of themselves. They ripped off the concept, right down to the rolling ticker-tape, from The Chaser, who have been doing it since 2003 much better!
It's not even funny. Or good. Or anything.
To compare Broken News with CNNNN and say the former is a rip-off of the latter is absurd. The formats are completely different -- whereas CNNNN had a single news desk with a couple of on-location reporters, Broken News was a series of channels, showing the way in which various "news" channels can be so alike, so unoriginal, and so pathetic as to make a mockery of what really constitutes news. CNNNN did this also, but the greater scale of Broken News illustrated the point in a far more comprehensive manner. Whereas CNNNN showed that some mainstream news channels are highly questionable in their content and style, Broken News showed that many, many news channels are questionable and seem to feed off one another in their idiocy.
And about the rolling ticker tape: it's hardly a new thing. It was certainly around well before the satire CNNNN.
first of all, cnnnn was not screening in australia when you wrote that, cnnnn finished up a while ago. the current show is 'the chaser's war on everything'. both of these, in fact all the chaser's work is heavily influenced by current events. they're very good at what they do.
broken news, however, is influenced by news networks. it's not a parody of current events, it's a parody of 24 hour cable news. they're very good at what they do.
the rolling ticker, as mentioned above, is not a new idea, and a rolling ticker does not a tv show make. there's plenty of differences - and plenty of english shows dating well back into the 90s that this is more a 'rip off' of.
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They ripped off the concept, right down to the rolling ticker-tape, from The Chaser, who have been doing it since 2003 much better!
It's not even funny. Or good. Or anything.
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