Breaking News

The story of the news team at I24, a 24-hour cable news network. Bill Dunne is the anchor of the network's flagship news hour. He joined by Janet LeClaire, an attractive blonde who assumes the coanchor position when her predecessor dies, despite her lack of a serious news background. The anchors and in-studio, off-camera personalities are joined by the stories of several "Man-on-the-scene" reporters and camerapeople.

Cast

• Lisa Ann Walter
• Tim Matheson
• Tony Alcantar
• Patricia Wettig
• Jason Schombing
• Max Martini
• Omega Kayne
• Rob Bruner
• Jano Frandsen
• Beverley Breuer
• Shayn Solberg
• Alf Humphreys
• Dan Joffre
• Bruce Ramsay
• Darcy Laurie
• Christine Ebersole
• Alejandro Rae
• Tim Henry
• Ken Pogue
• Kevan Ohtsji
• Garfield Wilson
• Bronson Pinchot
• Jonathon Young
• Brendan Fletcher
• Jason Emanuel

• Season 1
• Episode 1: Pilot
  USA:17 July 2002...
• Episode 2: Hi, Noonan
  USA:17 July 2002...
• Episode 3: Rachel Glass and the No Good, Very Bad Day
  USA:24 June 2002...
• Episode 4: Spin Art
  USA:31 July 2002...
• Episode 5: Wall-To-Wall Plane Crash
  USA:7 August 2002...
• Episode 6: Dunne's Choice
  USA:14 August 2002...
• Episode 7: Victims
  USA:21 August 2002...
• Episode 8: Broadcast from Hell
  USA:28 August 2002...
• Episode 9: My Suspect Vinny
  USA:11 September 2002...
• Episode 10: The Story Vanishes
  USA:18 September 2002...
• Episode 11: Bad Water
  USA:25 September 2002...
• Episode 12: I-24gate
  USA:2 October 2002...
• Episode 13: Karma
  USA:9 October 2002...

• Breaking News - Michael Jackson
• Breaking News - Half Man Half Biscuit
• Breaking News - 7 Seconds
• Breaking News - Mads Langer
• Breaking News - Jack Savoretti
• Breaking News - Coparck

Breaking news!
Ooh!
Oww!
Everybody wanting a piece of Michael Jackson
Reporters stalking the moves of Michael Jackson
Just when you thought he was done
He comes to give it again
They could put around the world today
He wanna' write my obituary
No matter what, you just wanna' read it again
No matter what, you just wanna' feed it again
Why is it strange that I would fall in love? (fall in love)
Who is that boogie man your thinkin' of? (thinkin' of)
Or am I crazy cause I just indulged? (in love?)
This is bre-breaking news
This is bre-breaking news
Everybody watching the news of Michael Jackson
They wanna see that I fall cause I'm Michael Jackson
You write the words to destroy
Like it's a weapon
You turned your back on the love and you can't get it again
No matter what, you just wanna' read it again
No matter what, you just wanna' feed it again
Why is it strange that I would fall in love? (fall in love)
Who is that boogie man your thinkin' of? (thinkin' of)
Or am I crazy cause I just indulged? (in love?)
This is bre-breaking news
This is bre-breaking news
Why is it strange that I would fall in love? (fall in love)
Who is that boogie man your thinkin' of? (thinkin' of)
Or am I crazy cause I just indulged? (in love?)
This is bre-breaking news
This is bre-breaking news
On the news today they say we're crazy (for celebrity)
And on the screen today we want displayed baby
Why is it strange that I would fall in love? (fall in love)
Who is that boogie man your thinkin' of? (thinkin' of)
Or am I crazy cause I just indulged? (in love?)
This is bre-breaking news
This is bre-breaking news
Why is it strange that I would fall in love? (fall in love)
Who is that boogie man your thinkin' of? (thinkin' of)
Or am I crazy cause I just indulged? (in love?)
This is bre-breaking news
This is bre-breaking news

We’re just receiving reports of an incident at a farm
in Sussex where a number of people have been arrested
in connection with “Annoying The Nation”.
It is believed that that the owner of the farm, a Mr.
Hibbert, has been co-operating with Police and
government officials in a plot codenamed Operation Less
Pricks, and kindly granted permission for the use of
his seventeenth century tithe barn as a temporary
holding place for those arrested. Although not
confirmed, we are led to understand that those already
charged include:
Bus drivers who don’t wait for people to sit down
before pulling away from the bus stop;
Taxi drivers who use their horns instead of knocking on
the door;
People who moan at the council about the streets being
full of litter, not stopping to think that it is people
who drop litter, not the council;
A room full of drama teachers listening to Bjork;
Grown men with replica shirts worn over their jumpers,
who stand up and stretch out their arms when the
opposing team fail to hit the target;
An assortment of scriptwriters, novelists and
playwrights who own Agas but don’t know how to use
them;
A musical equipment reviewer responsible for an article
titled “Microphone of the Month”;
A woman who described herself as “A little bit Bridget,
a little bit Ally, a little bit Sex In The City” and
chose to call her baby boy Fred as a childishly
rebellious attempt at a clever reaction to those who
might have expected her to call him Julian or Rupert.
Bit of advice: call him Rupert, it fits, and besides
it’s a good name. Don’t be calling him Fred or Archie,
with all its cheeky but lovable working class scamp
connotations, unless you really do have plans for him
to spend his life in William Hill’s waiting for them to
weigh in at Newton Abbott.
Also being held is a whole wall full of teenagers
spitting needlessly;
An amateur thug in camouflage trousers whose Japanese
fighting dog had run amok on a Swindon council estate;
A man from the record company who said that George
Michael continues to challenge social taboos through
his music;
Lisa Riley;
Continuity announcers introducing comedy shows;
A pub band who get uppity when everyone goes to the bar
during a song they’ve written themselves;
A group of football fans referred to as Commodores, as
in once, twice, three times a season, who feed sugar
lumps to police horses at Cup Finals;
An artist who said his next album would be more “song-
based”;
A man who informs people that he gets up at six am
every morning and seemed to want a medal;
People who say they speak as they find and are somehow
proud of it;
Journalists who try to spell an interviewee’s laugh;
An organisation who declared an awareness week for
awareness weeks;
And a council worker who dropped litter.

We got the green light, nothing's in the way
the TVs on and the bombing stars today
We got the green light, nothing's in the way
the TVs on and the bombing stars today
sitting here but it isn't clear
does it make much sense to you?
once again pounded in our heads,
and there's nothing we can do
images of a hundred things,
neatly edited and sold,
tried to find just one ounce of truth,
and it's ass out, in the cold
We got the green light, nothing's in the way
the TVs on and the bombing stars today
We got the green light, nothing's in the way
the TVs on and the bombing stars today
talking heads, tell a story,
see if we can catch the spin,
so good at painting pictures when will
this shit ever end?
a curve is thrown by a source, unknown,
journalism at it's worst
a race to see who makes history,
and who will make it first
We got the green light, nothing's in the way
the TVs on and the bombing stars today
We got the green light, nothing's in the way
the TVs on and the bombing stars today

When you find yourself alone
Counting chaos on the phone, trading storries from the
headlines In a culture fed on fear where they claim the
end is near It seems hard to keep a clear mind
This is the breaking news
You really don’t loose by trusting your neighbour
Hope is not fading away despite what they say in all of
the papers
Twenty soldiers killed today
Forty creeps that got away – it’s frontpage fascination
But I saw a mom and child picking daysies with a smile
Was it my imagination?
This is the breaking news
You really don’t loose by trusting your neighbour
Hope is not fading away despite what they say in all of
the papers
Turn off the evening news
It is nothing but polution
Reclaim your right to choose and find your own solution
This is the breaking news
You really don’t loose by trusting your neighbour
Hope is not fading away despite what they say in all of

This is the end of the world
Like never before
What the newsman read on the midnight before
It's breaking our hearts
Breaking our homes
War's being sole
It's breaking our bones
Taking our souls
War's getting old
So let's break free from all these chains of misery
That we've laid down upon ourselves in history
And let's break free
This is the end of the world
As we know
Watching children cry on the early morning show
It's breaking our hearts
Breaking our homes
War's being sole
It's breaking our bones
Taking our souls
War's getting old
So let's break free from all these chains of misery
That we've laid down upon ourselves in history
And let's break free
It's breaking our hearts
Breaking our homes
War's being sole
It's breaking our bones
Taking our souls
War's getting old
This is the end of the world, like never before
What the newsman read

The latest do's and don'ts
That's the right approach
That's the way to smile
Buy a lot of style
Give me new ideas
Another year
With surreal memories
Watch the autumn leaves
Change the groove
In this you?
Is this new?
Never lose
And follow me down
In this town
All around
Hear the sound
Of all the leaves
Falling from the trees
Other melodies
And another view
Then breaking news
Is this new?
And follow me down
In this town
All around