

Overview
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.
Cast
20Open an episode for ages at its air date.
Full cast · 20
- TMDB ID
- 9916 ↗
- First aired
- 1983-08-08
- Last aired
- 1987-11-07
- Status
- Ended
- Episode runtime
- 30 min
- Genres
- News, Comedy
- Creators
- Unknown
- Countries
- US
- Languages
- English
Family guidance
Age ratings
—Not rated in Switzerland (CH)
—Not rated in Spain (ES)
—Not rated in France (FR)
—Not rated in United States of America (US)
—Not rated in United Kingdom (GB)
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