Beneath The News
- TV sketch show
- BBC One
- 1975
- 5 episodes (1 series)
Press clippings
Beneath the News (BBC1) was good fun along the lines of Week Ending on Radio 4. Only with Moving Pictures. And in Colour. And from Manchester. I particularly liked the adventures of BTN's intrepid, albeit inept, reporters. Mugged, while reporting "The trial of a self-confessed gangland leader." "Why do you think you are being attacked in this vicious way? "It is possibly a little early to say.... It may be this gentleman has some interest in the outcome of the trial."
They arrive late: "Five minutes ago this street was the scene of amazing carnage." They are trapped in the Royal Box as the royals arrive.
As I have watched such staunch chaps standing in the middle of the street in their sheepskin jackets, I have often felt that they were in real danger from a bus. Or a sheep. The script was apparently the unaided work of John Hudson, though, judging by the abundance of religious sketches, he may have had divine assistance.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 2nd August 1975