Foreshadowing / Not for Broadcast

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In Not for Broadcast, you start as a news editor who has to keep the viewership up, but as the game progresses, many more insane events happen.

But these don't come out of the left field. There are instances where they are foreshadowed before they actually happen, and it certainly helps that with 14 endings, the Replay Value is undoubtedly there, allowing for Rewatch Bonus to take hold.

The page is currently a WIP.

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Working Days

Day 1: The Election

• Before the acceptance speech starts, Jeremy claims that Peter Clement is "a liability at the best of times". In the unknown footage from Path B, it's revealed that Julia had Peter assassinated because he intended to expose her actions, making him a liability to Advance.
  Julia: You are a bloody liability Peter! Can't you see that! Drunk or sober, you cannot be trusted!"

Day 8: The Fallout

• The Mr. Snugglehugs tape has a sticky note that asks you if it's a good idea to play it, due to the product's safety being questioned. Playing it will result in 8000 children becoming victims of the Snugglehugs tragedy. While its foreshadowing isn't subtle at all, this can be your first showcase of the importance of choice, and how one small action or decision can lead to ginormous impacts.
• When Jeremy interviews Katie Brightman and Alan James about their opinions on the new government, Alan makes a number of seemingly ridiculous, conspiratorial claims, deliberately aimed to shock people and sell more copies of his book - but many of them actually come true later in the game.
  • "We're to become the Great Herd. Ignorant, sterile, and short-lived. That's what they want." By the end of the game, the population has been made ignorant through the elimination of free speech and free press, sterile through birth control put into the food supply, and short-lived through Transition Centres, a high infant mortality rate, and a series of wars and uprisings.
  • "And this will not be a war like we've ever seen before. We're talking millions of deaths, we're talking high-tech weapons that can level entire cities..." On Day 371, Advance sets off nuclear explosives that destroy four major cities and kill 14 million people.
  • "Mock me all you like, Jeremy, but when they murder your parents and they poison your food and they take you away to their camps for hypno-brainwashing, who'll be laughing then?"
    • "Murder your parents" - Advance's "Transition Centres" introduced on Day 153 euthanise the elderly.
    • "Poison your food" - In the Path A unknown footage and the Path D ending, it is revealed that Advance put birth control in the food supply in order to prevent overpopulation.
    • "Take you away to their camps for hypno-brainwashing" - Advance's "Betterment" program is strongly implied to involve brainwashing and possibly torture. Jeremy himself is taken away to Betterment if he survives Day 296, and in the Path B endings it's clear that something went on there that makes him terrified about going back. And if the player doesn't play the unknown footage, he will go back, and either mysteriously die during his "treatment," or eventually come back to the Nightly Show, with stiff movements and stilted, unnatural speech, overall acting nothing like himself. Hypno-brainwashing, indeed.
  • Alan's claims about Advance indoctrinating the youth, though vulgar and exaggerated, turn out to be true as well, on some level. The player's son, Charlie, becomes very supportive of Advance if allowed to go to the Advance Go-Getters program. The largest effects are seen on Day 1975, where all of the teenagers and young people are very on board with Advance's agenda.

Day 153: The Tempest

• If you chose to play the Mr Snugglehugs ad on the previous broadcast, Segment One will end with Floor Manager Jenny warning Jeremy Donaldson that "the women are coming," referring to new co-anchor Megan Wolfe vying for his position. Fast forward to Episode 3, and Megan has taken over as the main presenter of the show and Patrick Bannon, the other main male reporter of the National Nightly News, has been replaced by a woman. In one variant of the game's finale, Jenny repeats her words as a warning to Julia Salisbury, after outrage spreads among the news crew over the mass sterilisation of the population by Advance.
• During the level, the anchors and staff note dripping rain coming from the ceiling, with Jeremy getting shocked while live near the end of the second segment when lightning strikes. Then Boseman notes that the vision mixer will experience the odd surge, and you'll have to exercise caution during the day's 3rd segment.
• During the interview with the Prime Ministers, Julia states that "the door to my government is always open", a hint that her Co-Premiership with Peter Clement isn't as equal of a partnership as it seems.

Day ???: The Lockdown

• There is an interview with Sophia Rymmington, with psychic scientist Dr. Delia Lywell as her guest, which foreshadows Jeremy's breakdown and possible death on Day 296:
  • If you picked the Wild Child Sophia headline back in Day 8: The Fallout, Megan Wolfe makes a bantering comment towards Jeremy Donaldson during the headlines:
    Jeremy: [unamused, snide] And psychic scientist Dr. Delia Lywell will be joining us, presumably to provide a bit of false hope.
    Megan: [lighthearted] Maybe she'll tell you how you're going to die, Jeremy.
  • Alternatively, if you picked the Professional Sophia headline, Dr. Delia Lywell provides much more ominous, direct foreshadowing when she has a vision during the Sophia Rymmington interview. Her vision seems to aptly describe Jeremy Donaldson's breakdown on Day 296, during which he grabs a gun from the CCO and takes the entire newsroom hostage, including his coworker and best friend Jenny. Depending on your choices during this scene, Jeremy may even end up dying, either via suicide or getting gunned down by the police.
    Lywell: Oh! We see you Mr Donaldson! You are screaming, and yelling. Your friends... are crying... they fear you... and then... you're gone..."
    Jeremy looks somewhat disturbed.
    Megan: Oh my god, I just got chills! Did anyone else just get chills then?
• A more humorous example. The 3rd segment has Geoff performing a song teaching kids to lower their expectations and give up on their higher goals for more mundane, depressing goals in the form of "Mr. Bear Lowers His Expectations." In the Wacky Fun ending, due to Alan's bomb vest detonating successfully, Geoff gives up on his dream of running shows, and ends up in a humiliating role in Frankie Fun's "Wacky Fun House of Whacks", with his character's name being "Doofnut".

Day 232: The Silence

• If Advance's popularity is low, due to Alex's editing choices, then Peter Clement will call them out during the foreign leaders interview and threaten to take Channel One into public ownership. Regardless of what Alex has done, government-requested censorship will begin in the next segment. And by Day 713, public ownership is said to be in "full swing" - though not under Clement's rule.
  Clement: Your channel is a fucking disgrace. You insinuate, and edit against us and pick your headlines so people don't trust us. The sooner you roaring monsters are taken into public ownership, the happier everyone in this country will be!
• If Advance's popularity is high, Jeremy mentions during the interview that the country is facing shortages and power outages due to the sanctions, leading Megan to correct him, saying they're possible shortages and power outages. Afterwards, Jenny and Megan remark that he's going to get himself fired, live on air, foreshadowing his breakdown on Day 296.
  Jenny: Ugh, it's all part of his long term plan to get fired live on the news at six in front of the nation.
  Megan: Can someone warn him it's going a little too well?
• At the end of the Segment 3 interview with Geoff Algebra, Tommy Harris, and Phillipa Rayden, Megan jokes that "next time we see you no doubt you'll have taken our jobs!" and everyone but Jeremy laughs. When we next see the trio, they have a dedicated slot on the channel, performing a government propaganda sitcom, The Noticeboard, from Day 371 until Day 912. On a more general level, this also foreshadows the program's shift from actual news to government propaganda and light-hearted entertainment, to the point that the crew jokes about degrees in journalism being useless now. And in the "Wacky Fun" ending, Geoff has literally taken their jobs - because Alan James blew up the Channel One studio, and presumably the Disrupt leadership has decided to air pure mindless entertainment instead.

Day 296: The Heatwave

• Before the broadcast starts, Jeremy expresses his feelings about Andy, the Community Cohesion Officer assigned to the news team. He is disturbed that Andy is armed, remarking that guns give him the willies. If he and Alan James are kept alive, this foreshadows Jeremy's reveal when Alan and a squad of Disrupt fighters storm the studio. Three other fighters are shown onscreen, yet only two of them are carrying guns.

Day 912: The Uprising

• If Jeremy is still alive, then one of the headlines mentions that he was freed by Disrupt operatives during the Night of Fire. This comes into play in the final episode, if both Jeremy and Alan are alive, when Jeremy returns alongside Alan and has a tape that he secretly recorded when he met with Disrupt's leaders.
• The third segment has "We're Having A Baby", the opening song of a musical celebrating childlessness. It's funded by Advance, and one of the members mentions how it became bigger than it was during its initial airing, both strange given Advance being in favor of family values. The Path A unknown footage and Path D ending show that Advance accidentally caused a Sterility Plague trying to resolve an Overpopulation Crisis. In Path A, Julia even mentions the need to create propaganda to discourage the populace from starting families.
  Julia: And we'll need to prepare the population, reframe the way they view starting a family. Stress the advantages of a childless life. People can be surprisingly malleable when presented with a positive spin.

DLC

Day 85: Live And Spooky

• During the first part of the show, Alex is directed to send Wayne and Patrick to the costume room first. If an effect isn't picked on time, the game will always choose the costume room over any option (or pick the second remaining option when calling for the third room). This foreshadows that there's something inside the costume room that the crew doesn't want anyone to see.