Charlie Brooker picks apart the mechanics of rolling news, using the footage itself as evidence: looping BBC and Sky News graphics, breathless correspondents standing in front of nothing in particular, and pundits filling airtime with speculation dressed as analysis. Each episode of this BBC Four series takes a week's actual headlines and cuts them together to show how urgency gets manufactured, how a single unverified detail spreads across every channel within the hour, and how visual clutter substitutes for information. Brooker narrates in voiceover, alternating between clips and his own deadpan commentary, occasionally bringing in other critics and journalists to unpack a particular story or convention. A recurring highlight is Adam Curtis's short filmed essays, which step outside the news-cycle format entirely to trace longer patterns in how images and power intersect. The series grew out of Brooker's television critique show Screenwipe and applies the same close reading to news broadcasts instead of drama and sitcoms, treating them as a genre with its own tics, clichés, and blind spots worth examining on their own terms.