Not Necessarily the News
1983
📺 8 Seasons
🎬 100 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 30 min/episode
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Not Necessarily the News is a satirical sketch comedy series that first aired on HBO in September 1982 as a comedy special, and then ran as a series from 1983 to 1990. It featured sketches, parody news items, commercial parodies, and humorous bits made from overdubbing or editing actual news footage. It was based on the British series, Not the Nine O'Clock News. Not Necessarily the News was also the birthplace of Rich Hall's sniglets.
Seasons
Season 1
The Newsroom is shut down and our newscasters must go elsewhere. However they do not do well and they become homeless. They are saved by a friendly man named Chester, who brings them into his home.
Season 2
In this Goof episode. A murderer terrorizes the studio and our newscasters must find the killer.
Season 3
Rich runs the New York marathon and wins. But is stripped of the title becuase of false rumors about steriod addiction. He must find out who framed him.
Season 4
After Micheal leaves the studio, the team gets a new member, Melanie, a young colledge student.
Season 5
Cast
Network
HBO
Production
HBO, Not the Network Company, Inc, Moffitt-Lee Productions