The Day Today
- TV sketch show
- BBC Two
- 1994
- 7 episodes (1 series)
Following on from Radio 4's On The Hour, The Day Today is a biting satirical swipe at television news in the early 1990s. Stars Chris Morris, Steve Coogan, Doon Mackichan, Rebecca Front, Patrick Marber and David Schneider
Key details
- Genre
- Sketch Show
- Broadcast
- 1994
- Channel
- BBC 2
- Episodes
- 7 (1 pilot + 1 series)
- Creators
- Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci
- Stars
- Chris Morris, Steve Coogan, Doon Mackichan, Rebecca Front, Patrick Marber and David Schneider
- Writers
- Chris Morris, Armando Iannucci, Steve Coogan, Doon Mackichan, Rebecca Front, Patrick Marber, David Schneider, Peter Baynham and Andrew Glover
- Director
- Andrew Gillman
- Producers
- Armando Iannucci, Peter Fincham and Chris Morris
- Company
Following on from radio news satire On The Hour, The Day Today satirised the way TV news was broadcast.
Presented by Christopher Morris, the programme reported on all the top stories, from a US criminal being executed while dressed as Elvis, to the IRA planting bombs in dogs, to reporting live from a war which Morris himself started.
Alongside Morris are a team of correspondents, including jargon-spouting business reporter Collaterlie Sisters, the disembodied head of weather forecaster Sylvester Stuart, incompetent economic correspondent Peter O'Hanraha-Hanrahan, pun-loaded American reporter Barbara Wintergreen, and debuting on TV is the sports correspondent who seemingly knows nothing about sport: Alan Partridge.
Additional details
- Production
- Studio
- Picture
- Colour
- Soundtrack
- Music in the show performed by Jonathan Whitehead and Chris Morris.
Website links
- BBC
A BBC article about The Day Today. - Screen Online
Another article about the show. - IMDb
- Wikipedia
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Wednesday 19th January 1994 at 9pm on BBC Two