Newsflash - Stories that Stopped the World

A great show currently on ITV showing the moments that the BBC & ITN and other broadcasters broke into schedules to deliver a major Newsflash.

Loads of great archive material by the looks of it, just seen a BBC One Newsflash of preliminary reports of Princess Diana's accident which I have never seen before.

Catch it on ITV+1 if you've missed the start of it.

Will have to watch this after Scotland Tonight, I suppose that's one bonus of having an opt out programme after NaT in that you don't miss the start of programmes...

Dan Rather of CBS talking about the assassination of JFK, along with CBS News staff talking about 'hot studios'.

Thanks for the heads up - sounds interesting. Not something you'd expect to crop up on ITV either - more of a BBC4 kind of thing I'd have thought.

Might con a few EPG hoppers into watching when they see "Newsflash" in the schedule and tune in to find out what's going on.

Very interesting and informative. Also seeing some old faces like Richard Baker and Sandy Gall on the programme brings back memories. Alastair Stewart reported the Lockerbie bombing on ITN and it is clear he hasn't lost any of his authority. The whole programme reminds me of why newsflashes are still important, they shout "This is important, and you better listen".

John Suchet's 'reaction' after handing over to TVAM was mildly amusing there.

What an interesting and enthralling programme. It's programmes like this actually make the TV worth watching. I actually remember when Glasgow Airport was attacked and STV broke out of the network to bring us an STV News Special with Stephen Jardine and then they became more frequent once they got even more information. I even think Gordon Chree did a live link for CNN...

Who was the women who presented the initial report before John Suchet was drafted in?

Col tweeted that it was Brenda Rowe

Peter Sissons and that awful BBC1 ident

That was introduced two days before the Queen Mother died. Just doesn't have the same significance as a 'News Report' slide. Wonderful documentary though, I learnt quite a lot from it, especially seeing how reporters (still do) put their lives on the line to bring us the news every day.

Could have been a 2 part series. They didn't really cover 9/11, although I suppose that story has been told many times. Didn't cover 7/7 either.