Features reports on Buckingham Palace culling 40 members of staff, passengers stuck on a train in Hampshire, Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan reporting on General Motors making 35000 workers redundant, Colin Poppshed reporting from the gay desk, the decline of the NHS, and a roundup of international news. Also features a documentury set at the office of a pharmaceutical company, and Alan Partridge covering self-defence.
- Directed by
- Andrew Gillman
- Written by
- Chris Morris, David Schneider, Steve Coogan
Guest stars
Harry Towb
Matthew Krean MP
Peter Baynham
Colin Poppshed
- C
Christopher Luscombe
- F
Frederic Foederer
- D
Daniel Gilmore
King Charles III of the United Kingdom
Self (archive footage)
David Owen
Self (archive footage)
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
Self (archive footage)
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Self (archive footage)
Anne, Princess Royal
Self (archive footage)
Princess Margaret
Self (archive footage)
Bill Clinton
Self (archive footage)
All episodes — Series 1
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S1 E1Main News Attack
Jan 19, 199429 min
Features reports on Prince Charles volunteering to go to prison, the London Jam Festival, bullying in the Church of England, medieval alternative medicine, and a sheepdog piloting an out of control helicopter. Also features Barbara Wintergr
S1 E2The Big Report
Jan 26, 199429 min
Features reports on the Junior Minister for health resigning, Marlon Brando being sold at auction in Sotheby's, illegal back street dentists, and Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan reporting on the new European trade quota rates. Also features The Po
S1 E3Meganews
Feb 2, 199429 min
Features reports on an infestation of wild horses in the London underground, the BBC's new soap opera The Bureau (replacing the Nine O'Clock News), a fight between Queen Elizabeth and John Major, and an air jam. Also features Barbara Winter
S1 E4Stretchcast
Feb 9, 199429 min
Features reports on suspicions that British police officers are eating their suspects, Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan interviewing the government minister for ships regarding recent accusations, the IRA's use of explosives hidden in dogs, the imm
S1 E5Magnifevent
Feb 16, 199429 min
Features reports on the British Pound being stolen, the plummeting ratings of The Bureau, the clamping of the homeless in London, a reminiscence of events in 1944, government ministers contracting a disease that inhibits reading, and the tr