About this season
Not Necessarily the News is a satirical sketch comedy series that first aired on HBO in September 1982 as a comedy special, and then ran as a series from 1983 to 1990. It featured sketches, parody news items, commercial parodies, and humorous bits made from overdubbing or editing actual news footage. It was based on the British series, Not the Nine O'Clock News. Not Necessarily the News was also the birthplace of Rich Hall's sniglets.
Episodes (10)
1. Blood Not Simple
Aired 3 May 1984 • 30 min
In this Goof episode. A murderer terrorizes the studio and our newscasters must find the killer.
2. Levity
Aired 10 May 1984 • 30 min
A band is hired to ""put some life"" into the studio. There music {heavy metal devil style} drives our team mad and there manager gets the hots for Audrie.
3. Shotgun
Aired 17 May 1984 • 30 min
Rich gets a shotgun and acciedently shoots himself in the foot. With himself handicaped, he gets a telescope and sees a murder from his window. Ala ""Rear Widnow"".
4. Sunday, Bloody Sunday, Coarse Light
Aired 24 May 1984 • 30 min
A british filmaker comes to the studio and begins to seduce the female staff members. Rich swears to teach the British man a lesson.
5. Sex at 10 Feet
Aired 31 May 1984 • 30 min
Stuart and Michael buy a hooker together but fight over who gets who first. Meanwhile, Rich courts a young woman who is revealed to be the sister of Annabelle.
6. A Little Sex with Breakfast
Aired 7 June 1984 • 30 min
Micheal and Annabelle begin having a steady relationship, little does Micheal know, that Annabelle and Stuart are having a wild affair in this unuasally poined episode.
7. The Kick
Aired 14 June 1984 • 30 min
Rich is kicked in the groin and must spend 3 weeks in a hospital ward.
8. The Real Kick
Aired 21 June 1984 • 30 min
Rich is fired from the studio but regains his contract when he seduces the new female head of the studio.
9. Clip Show
Aired 28 June 1984 • 30 min
A series of clips titled ""The Best of Not the News""
10. There is no Regan
Aired 26 August 1984 • 30 min
When the Regan fake dies, Annabelle goes to florida to visit her sister and Audire lives in her place, she has big parties and one of her guests turns out to be the son of the Regan.