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Moving Wallpaper (2008)
7.5/10on IMDb
First aired
A producer and a television team scramble to make a soap, and the first season’s companion series, Echo Beach, was the show they were supposedly making. Start here if the most interesting part is seeing the gap between a decision in the production office and the fiction it produces.
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Review (2014)
8.4/10on IMDb
First aired
Forrest MacNeil’s fictional review show asks him to rate major life experiences as if they were products. The joke gets darker as he keeps following the format, even when the assignment has already done something his family and crew can’t reverse.
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Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge (1994)
8.2/10on IMDb
First aired
Alan hosts his own fictional chat show, takes guests in the order a producer has planned, and turns ordinary introductions into public embarrassments. It concentrates on the host trying to steer an interview while the television format keeps moving.
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Muppets Tonight (1996)
7.7/10on IMDb
First aired
At KMUP, Clifford becomes the host of a variety show after finding himself at the right station at the wrong time. The 1990s series gives you the actual acts alongside the work of getting them into a television slot.
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W1A (2014)
7.8/10on IMDb
First aired
Follow the man put in charge of the BBC’s values through meetings, rebrands and initiatives that seem to make broadcasting harder. W1A finds comedy in who runs a network and the language they use when nobody wants to own a decision.
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Drop the Dead Donkey (1990)
8.0/10on IMDb
First aired
A commercial news team weighs what happened against what its new proprietor wants people to see. The fictional GlobeLink News newsroom is funny because the distance between the reporters’ priorities and the next instruction from above is easy to understand.
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Extras (2005)
8.3/10on IMDb
First aired
Start with Andy Millman’s work as an extra and stay for the sitcom he gets onto television. The laugh track and catchphrase give the second season a sharper question about who decides what the comedian’s big success looks like.
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The Other Two (2019)
7.8/10on IMDb
First aired
Pat’s daytime talk show becomes another job for a family trying to keep up with sudden fame. Use this entry when you want the TV business at an angle, with a host’s schedule crowding out her life and everybody around her learning to turn attention into work.
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The Hour (2011)
8.0/10on IMDb
First aired
In the 1950s, a BBC team puts together a current-affairs broadcast while a story threatens to move beyond the studio. Bel Rowley’s work as a producer keeps the newsroom ambition and the Cold War intrigue connected.
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The Producers (2015)
7.2/10on IMDb
First aired
A rookie producer joins a real broadcaster in this fictional story about its variety and entertainment staff. Jobs on different shows give the cast reason to worry about ratings, performers, and decisions that seem straightforward to people outside the station.
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Stay Tuned! (2019)
7.3/10on IMDb
First aired
An inexperienced reporter joins a local television station in Sapporo. Her unpredictable approaches put the rest of the news team in the position of having to make a segment out of what she finds. Try it for the work inside a smaller newsroom.
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Quiz (2020)
7.3/10on IMDb
First aired
The 2020 miniseries covers the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? cheating case, including what the television staff made of the game and its recording. It asks what a finished broadcast lets the audience know, and what the production team can piece together afterward.
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The Newsreader (2021)
7.9/10on IMDb
First aired
An Australian television newsroom in the 1980s puts ambitious reporter Dale Jennings beside experienced anchor Helen Norville. Notice whose face reaches the audience in a crisis and who has to negotiate the order of the stories beforehand.
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The Newsroom (1996)
8.0/10on IMDb
First aired
Choose Ken Finkleman’s Canadian series for the news director who tends to see a crisis first as footage. The regional newsroom mixes self-interest and editorial judgment in the same dark joke. This is the original 1996 Canadian series.
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On the Air (1992)
7.2/10on IMDb
First aired
David Lynch and Mark Frost put a 1950s television variety show at the mercy of live equipment and confused performers. The opening broadcast that goes badly is a good introduction to the crew’s determination to keep going once timing stops going to plan.
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The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017)
8.6/10on IMDb
First aired
Watch the final season for Midge’s job as a writer on The Gordon Ford Show. A room that already has rules about what a woman can be credited with gives her a different obstacle from making a club audience laugh.
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The Broken News (2022)
7.6/10on IMDb
First aired
Two Indian television news channels turn the same events into sharply different broadcasts, and reporter Radha is caught up in their rivalry. Try this for a newsroom drama where the process of turning a fact into a headline can cause a fight.
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Reboot (2022)
7.3/10on IMDb
First aired
A streaming service revives an early-2000s family sitcom whose actors have history with one another. Its push and pull between the original showrunner and the writer pitching a new version makes a good companion to Episodes.
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Seinfeld (1989)
8.8/10on IMDb
First aired
The fourth-season NBC pilot story turns Jerry and George into writers of a sitcom about people much like themselves. The meetings and the eventual pilot are a detour within a larger sitcom, and they’re especially funny if you already know the habits the pair is trying to sell as fiction.
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Less than Perfect (2002)
6.9/10on IMDb
First aired
Claude Casey moves from temp work to an assistant’s position with TV news anchor Will Butler. Start here if you want the work of answering phones and keeping an office running to stay visible while the on-air people compete for status.
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Good Morning, Miami (2002)
6.4/10on IMDb
First aired
Jake takes over a deeply unpopular Miami morning program and has to persuade the hosts to work with him. A local broadcaster's makeover makes the pressure lighter and more personal than it is in The Morning Show.
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