Frontline (1994)

The best comedy ever made about a commercial current affairs programme, and a useful corrective to anyone who thinks the genre's tricks are new. Rob Sitch plays Mike Moore, a self-centred, dim-witted anchor who never notices how he is being steered, while the producers around him chase ratings. The team that became Working Dog shot the backstage scenes on hand-held camcorders, as if you were eavesdropping, for ABC TV from 1994, and the format does the satire: you watch a story being shaped in the office, then broadcast with a sincere face. Three series in all, and the cynicism of the production meetings has not dated a day.