DAC Episode 310 - The Random Canon #38 - Broadcast News (1987)

two live dogs, but sometimes you kind of wish albert brooks’ character was a dead lion.

Hollywood loves taking apart the business of moviemaking, but satires on broadcast journalism are relatively scant. But who needs quantity when you’ve got Broadcast News? Holly Hunter, Albert Brooks and William Hurt play the world’s most toxic throuple* as the storms of Reagan-era economics start bashing network television news against the rocks. Listen below or find us on your podcatcher of choice, which is a sentene that the characters in Broadcast News could not imagine saying.

*Okay, it’s a love triangle, not a throuple. Let me have my dreams, people. They’re all I’ve got left.