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Not Necessarily the News

1983 · Ended

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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.

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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

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—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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