The Day Today
The Day Today Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 8.2 | 8.1 | 8.4 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 8.3 | 8.2 |
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About
"News satire so sharp it predicted itself"
A pitch-black spoof of TV news broadcasting, this show apes the pompous graphics, booming music and self-important anchors of 1990s current-affairs programming to skewer how news manufactures urgency out of nothing. Chris Morris anchors with terrifying deadpan certainty, surrounded by a cast including a young Steve Coogan as a blustering sports reporter. It moves fast, throws away brilliant gags in seconds, and never explains its jokes. The tone is gleeful, absurd and faintly unsettling, less a sitcom than a demolition of an entire broadcasting genre, and it still feels startlingly ahead of its time.
the sheer density of perfectly deadpan jokes about news media's self-importance.
you need character-driven plots rather than rapid-fire sketch satire.
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All Seasons
| Ep | Title | Rating | Yours | Votes | Runtime | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▶ | 0 | Pilot | 7.9 | 75 | 35 min | |
| ▶ | 1 | The First | 8.1 | 153 | 28 min | |
| ▶ | 2 | Big Report | 8.4 | 134 | 28 min | |
| ▶ | 3 | Meganews | 8.1 | 122 | 29 min | |
| ▶ | 4 | Stretchcast | 8.1 | 116 | 28 min | |
| ▶ | 5 | News | 8.3 | 117 | 28 min | |
| ▶ | 6 | Factgasm | 8.2 | 109 | 28 min |