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Our hero is plonked in front of his or her favourite show when the show is suddenly interrupted, whether by [[This Just In|inside]] or [[Do Not Adjust Your Set|outside]] forces, to deliver a ([[Worst News Judgement Ever|usually]]) shocking and/or plot-relevant announcement.
See also [[This Just In]]
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== Live Action TV ==
* In ''[[The Young Ones]]'', a BBC radio broadcast gets interrupted to deliver the guys some vitally important news. Naturally, they don't notice.
* In ''[[Mission: Impossible]]'', in the episode "Ultimatum," this trope was [[Invoked]] by the IMF in conjunction with [[Coincidental Broadcast]]. The target of the sting was not genre-savvy enough to question the coincidence that his music program would be repeatedly interrupted with information directly relevant to his own situation.
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* Before ''[[The Cape (2010 TV series)|The Cape]]'' was released, radio ads for it were released which started with music and interrupted it with a fake news broadcast in this fashion.
* [[Svengoolie]]'s show starts with an announcement: "Calling all stations! Clear the airlanes, clear '''all''' airlanes for the big broadcast!"
* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' did this as a gag in one episode where a regular program is interrupted with "We interrupt this program to annoy you and makes things generally irritating for you." and later with "Good evening. We interrupt this program again ,A, to irritate you and B, to provide work for one of our announcers." which then is followed by a a very nervous new announcer doing his job, get a pep talk from his colleagues and having a congratulatory cocktail afterward.
== [[Music]] ==
* [[Doctor Steel]]'s song, "Greedy", starts out with a news bulletin about three escaped prisoners of an insane asylum (one of them, we gather, is Dr. Steel).
* The 1956 comedy mash-up [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfay_-zHrCE "The Flying Saucer"] by Buchanan and Goodman does this ''twice''. The beginning of the first side of the original 45 ("Part 1" for us in the digital age) pretends to be a vintage rock'n'roll record, which is interrupted by an announcer with the news that a flying saucer has appeared in the skies "downtown". Side/Part Two starts with music again, which the announcer interrupts to inform us "We are ''not'' going to interrupt this record," before returning to the music. After a few more seconds he [[Double Subversion|interrupts again with "Yes, we are,"]] and launches into the remainder of the record.
== [[Radio]] ==
* The
== Videogames ==
* The first episode of ''[[They Hunger]]'' had the radio station interrupt to inform about "unknown atmospheric phenomena". As the player learns, it turns out to be lightning that creates (some) of the zombies of the game, when it strikes the graveyard at the nearby church.
* In ''[[Liberal Crime Squad]]'', you can liberally sneak into the conservative AM Radio Station or Cable News Studio, and liberally discuss a randomly chosen conservative issue, liberally helping it getting more liberal. You can also do the same by [[Running Gag|liberally]] gunning your way through the [[Overused Running Gag|conservative]] security.
== [[Web Original]] ==
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* The Strong Bad Email "senior prom" from ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' begins with this. "Let the King have some!"
** "The King of Town's Very Own, Quite Popular Cartoon Show" eventually became an actual episode. "For reals this time!"
== Western Animation ==
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* ''[[MAD]]'' has this as a [[Couch Gag]].
* ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' had a short where Buster's video game was interrupted for a announcement.
== [[Real Life]] ==
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* The live broadcast of ''[[Quatermass|Quatermass 2005]]'' had an on-screen graphic displayed twice, advising viewers that a major news story (the death of Pope John Paul II) was being covered on BBC News 24.
* This also happens whenever Royals die in the UK; Normal programming is either interrupted by [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-fSTgFXblE the picture of the Union Jack and sombre music], or a message telling viewers to change to a news channel. Such events are also likely to disrupt regular programming for the rest of the day. Although it wasn't expected, a good example of both this trope and [[This Just In]] is how British Channels responded to [http://www.meldrum.co.uk/mhp/continuity/diana.html the death of Princess Diana].
** Which is very annoying because after the first hour they had absolutely no new news whatsoever, and because
* Obviously happened on September 11, 2001. You can find plenty of footage on [[YouTube]] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEEOnRi2Bsc it's especially eerie to see how "normally" the day started]. Some regular programs took ''days'' to come back on the air.
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