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The Funny Side of the News

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29/12/2007

BBC Two - The Funny Side of the News

Clive Anderson traces the evolution of TV news, with the help of classic clips.

Armed with a host of classic bloopers, Clive Anderson demonstrates the many different ways in which newsreaders' mistakes can occur and traces the evolution of news presentation.

News is a serious, difficult and complicated business. Which makes newsreaders' mistakes even funnier. Armed with a host of classic clips, Clive Anderson demonstrates the many different ways in which news mistakes can occur, and tracks how the style of TV news presentation has evolved over the last 50 years.

Packed with gaffes, outtakes and blunders, there's also newsreaders' perspectives from Fiona Bruce, Michael Aspel, Anne Diamond, Kenneth Kendall, Jan Leeming, Dermot Murnaghan, Sir David Nicholas, Nick Owen, Jan Ravens, Angela Rippon, Nicholas Owen, Peter Sissons, Pamela Stephenson-Connolly, Jeremy Vine, Kirsty Wark and Kirsty Young.

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