The Day Today (1994)

Genre

parody, comedy television series

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 6 episodes

Rated

15

Rating

8.2 of 10 from 63 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This show mocks television news and current affairs shows. It presents fake news stories and interviews in a serious style, with exaggerated anchors and absurd events.

absurdsatiricalfast-paceddeadpansharpchaoticmock-seriousirreverent

What happens

The Day Today is a British comedy television show that parodies television news and current affairs programmes, broadcast from 19 January to 23 February 1994 on BBC2. It was created by Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris and is an adaptation of the radio programme On the Hour, which was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 9 August 1991 and 28 May 1992 and was also written by Morris, Iannucci, Steven Wells, Andrew Glover, Stewart Lee, Richard Herring, David Quantick, and the cast. For The Day Today, Peter Baynham joined the writing team, and Lee and Herring were replaced by Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews. The principal cast of On the Hour was retained for The Day Today. The Day Today is composed of six half-hour episodes and a selection of shorter five-minute slots recorded as promotional trailers for the longer episodes. The series won many awards including Morris winning the 1994 British Comedy Award for Best Newcomer. All six episodes are available on BBC DVD, having previously been issued on VHS. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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