The Funny Side Of... (2007)
- TV factual
- BBC Two
- 2007 - 2009
- 7 episodes (1 series)
Clip show which charts the relationship between television and a variety of topics, including talent shows, politicians and animals. Features Clive Anderson.
Episode menu
Pilot - The Funny Side Of The News
Further details
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.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Saturday 29th December 2007
- Time
- 9:30pm
- Channel
- BBC Two
- Length
- 60 minutes