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Encyclopedia > List of satirical television news programs

This is a list of television programs which are either news programs with a satirical bent, or parodies of news broadcasts, with either real or fake stories. The list does not include sitcoms or other programs set in a news-broadcast work environment, such as the US Mary Tyler Moore, the Australian Frontline, or the Canadian The Newsroom. The Mary Tyler Moore Show was an American television sitcom that aired on CBS from September 19, 1970 to March 19, 1977. ... Frontline is an Australian situation comedy TV show, which satirised Australian television current affairs. ... The Newsroom is a Canadian television dramedy series which ran on the CBC in the 1996-1997 and 2003-2004 seasons. ...


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