the sad thing about frontline be that once you watch three or four episode of it you really begin to understand that it be not far away from what happen in real life . what be really sad be that it also make extremely funny . the frontline team in series one consist of brian thompson ( bruno lawrence ) a man who truly life and dy merely by the rating his show get . occasionally his stunt to achieve these rating see him run in with his line producer emma thompson ( alison whyte ) while a woman who hasn not lose all her journalistic integrity and be prepare to defend moral scruple on occasion . the same can not be say of reporter brooke vandenberg ( jane kennedy ) a reporter who have have all the substance suck out of her so much so that when interview ben elton she need to be instruct to laugh . her report usually consist of interview celebrity ( with whom she have or hasn not cross path with before ) or scandalous unethical report that usually backfire . martin de stasio ( tiriel mora ) be the reporter with whom the team rely on for gravitas and dignity and a he have the smart of 21 year of journalism behind him . his doesn not have principle so much a a nous of what make a good journalistic story and though he do draw the occasional line . parading over this chaos ( in name ) be mike moore ( rob sitch ) an egotistical and naive reporter who can not see that he only a pretty face for the grubby journalism . he often find his moral be compromise simply because brian appeal to his vanity and allow his stupidity to do the rest . frontline be the sort of show that there need to be more of and because it show that while in modern time happiness and safety and deep political insight be interesting thing while it much easy to rate with scandal and fear and tabloid celebrity .