Fictional presentation

There was a Roland Rat series which featured a spoof BBC3, with in-vision continuity from the guest on that week's show, complete with an ident in the style of the BBC2 ident of the time.

http://www.uploadimages4free.com/upload/big/bbc3_ident_spoof_roland_rat_the_series-12912.jpg



I guess this might count too

Apparently, the full line-up consisted of BBC Backstage, BBC Upmarket, BBC Downmarket, BBC Newmarket, BBC Makeover, BBC Takeover, BBC Good Old Days, BBC Wartime, BBC Daytime, BBC Teatime, BBC Braindead and BBC Knitwear.

Found an example of a "BBC Upmarket" logo. Martin Lambie-Nairn wouldn't be pleased.

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Fixed.

I've not seen 2001 before - curiously enough, I was in a club in Lisbon on Saturday where they were projecting scenes from the film on the wall, and the 'BBC 12' caught my eye


He had a cameo in Mission: Impossible too. One of the two had slightly less good graphics than the other, though I can't remember which was which.

Deep Impact used a whole lot of fake MSNBC pres - the writers wanted to base it around CNN, but they decided it was "an inappropriate vehicle for CNN to be involved in." Quite.
(The AP news article that quote comes from also says "CBS, NBC and ABC have said they don't allow anchors or news reporters to appear in movies and won't lend their network names to fictional newscasts.")

I wasted an evening watching Kevin Costner's "Swing Vote" a few weeks ago, and it featured lots of fake presentation from the three news networks (CNN; Fox News and MSNBC) as well as many of their anchors. They were also present with unrealistic microphones and news vans sporting enormous logos, as were some other news outlets (including MTV...). CNN was the only network that needed a special clarification in the credits, assuring viewers that the CNN reporter in the movie was fictional.

Incidentally, this was Larry King's 23rd movie role.

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/which-tvnewsers-rock-the-vote_b20359

I think this is the reason you'll rarely see the the fake news full screen: on Doctor Who they're normally shown on a TV screen, or zoomed in so you can see stuff is cropped off or, if it is unusually fullscreen, it'll have scanlines.

The recent disaster movie 2012 didn't include many news reports compared to its predecessors (perhaps because the TV studios plunged into the sea), but when they did they did the crew mixed things up a bit:

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