History Main / WeInterruptThisProgram

* The first episode of ''TheyHunger'' 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 strickes the graveyeard at the nearby church.
* In LiberalCrimeSquad, 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 [[RunningGag liberally]] gunning your way through the [[OverusedRunningGag conservative]] security.

* DoctorSteel's song, "Greedy", starts out with a news bulletin about three escaped prisoners (one of them, we gather, is Dr. Steel).

* ''BatmanDeadEnd'' starts with this sort of a news broadcast about the escaped Joker.

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* The original ''WarOfTheWorlds'' broadcast begins with a weather report, then a music show featuring "Ramon Raquello and His Orchestra", and transitioned to the news bulletins that started the main story in this fashion.

* In ''MissionImpossible'', in the episode "Ultimatum," this trope was used by the IMF in conjunction with CoincidentalBroadcast. 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.

* The first episode of TheyHunger 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 strickes the graveyeard at the nearby church.

See also ThisJustIn, where it's a news program that interrupts itself for this purpose.

Our hero is plonked in front of his or her favourite show when the show is suddenly interrupted, whether by [[ThisJustIn inside]] or [[DoNotAdjustYourSet outside]] forces, to deliver a shocking announcement.

* In TheYoungOnes, a BBC radio broadcast gets interrupted to deliver the guys some vitally important news. Naturally, they don't notice.
* In ''MissionImpossible', in the episode "Ultimatum," this trope was used by the IMF in conjunction with CoincidentalBroadcast. 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.
* Recently used in SaturdayNightLive in skits where their version of the founder of Wikileaks statics out someone else's broadcast to send his message.

* In series 38, episode 7 of HaveIGotNewsForYou, a crew member walked up to Ian Hislop and whispered in his ear. Ian then announced that [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8083585.stm cabinet minister James Purnell had just resigned,]] just as the panel were discussing the various cabinet resignations that has occurred during that week.
* 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.

Our hero is plonked in front of his or her favourite show when the show is suddenly interrupted, whether by [[ThisJustIn inside]] or [[DoNotAdjustYourSet outside]] forces, to deliver a shocking bit of news that is relevant to the plot.

Older TV shows or films will have a news cast of this nature [[ThisJustIn will actually start with the announcer actually stating the]] [[TropeName trope-naming phrase]], but this variant has become a DiscreditedTrope.

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* The radio ads for TheCape before it came out used it. They would start out with music and interrupt it with a fake news broadcast.

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* The original ''WarOfTheWorlds'' broadcast begins with a weather report, then a music show featuring "Ramon Raquello and His Orchestra". The news bulletins that move it into the main story were WeInterruptThisBroadcast.

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* In series 38, episode 7 of HaveIGotNewsForYou, a crew member walked up to Ian Hislop and whispered in his ear. Ian then announced that [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8083585.stm cabinet minister James Purnell had just resigned,]] just as the panel were discussing the various cabinet resignations that has occurred during that week.
* 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.
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Our hero is plonked in front of his or her favourite show when [[ThisJustIn the show is suddenly interrupted]] to deliver a shocking bit of news that is relevant to the plot.

Our hero is plonked in front of his or her favourite show when the show is suddenly interrupted to deliver a shocking bit of news that is relevant to the plot.

There our hero is, plonked in front of his or her favourite show, when all of a sudden, there's an IntrepidReporter delivering a shocking bit of news that is relevant to the plot. If it's an older tv show or film, the news cast will actually start with the announcer actually stating the TropeNamer phrase; if it's a newer show, it will only be used in [[DiscreditedTrope a comedy.]]

Compare ExtraExtraReadAllAboutIt, which is the newspaper version of this trope.

There our hero is, plonked in front of his or her favourite show, when all of a sudden, there's an IntrepidReporter delivering a shocking bit of news that is [[CoincidentalBroadcast vital to the plot.]] If it's an older tv show or film, the news cast will actually start with the announcer actually stating the TropeNamer phrase, if it's a newer show, it will only be used in [[DiscreditedTrope a comedy.]]

* Recently used in SaturdayNightLive in skits where their vs. of the founder of Wikileaks statics out someone else's broadcast to send his message.