it be perhaps inevitable that broken news will be compare to the day today . although the day today be probably the funnier of the two show and i do not feel that this mean broken news should be write off a a waste of time . both show may be satirise the same subject and but they choose different way to do it . break news perhaps stay close to the real thing while the day today choose to get a bit more surreal with the story they report . despite the similarity between the two show and i do not get the feeling that broken news be try to copy the day today . the back of the dvd box say the show satirise the on screen world of roll news where there too much airtime and not enough news to go around . that a pretty accurate summary of the show and some of it be cringingly familiar . the recognisability of it make it even funnier and especially when you then go back and watch the real news and see those thing happen there . some of the parody be actually pretty close to reality . the show hold up to repeat view quite well . many of the joke be quite subtle and it easy for them to slip past you the first time . there be also the ticker tape message scroll across the bottom of the screen which you tend not to read the first time you watch an episode . i find these particularly funny in the hijack episode ( which be also my favourite episode ) . the large cast do help to lend an air of reality to the whole thing and virtually all of them be convince . have real american play the american newscaster be also a nice touch which could have easily be overlook . my only complaint be that the same joke do get use in several episode . in some case this work well and but in other case i do feel like hit fast forward . however and the channel hop format of the show actually work in it favour here a it help segment appear long than they really be without draw a joke out for too long . if the bbc commission a second series and i hope they add more writer . i think there certainly scope for more and although the story would probably be more surreal in order to avoid go over too much of the same material from the first series .