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The Newsroom is shut down and our newscasters   must go elsewhere. However they do not do well   and they become homeless. They are saved by a    friendly man named Chester, who brings them into   his home.

Pilot {1}

Living in the house of Chester, our team discovers he is   an infamous murdere and call the police, but discover that   they themselves are being arrested for being accomplices.   They get a lawyer, and after 3 mistrials, they are set free,   but are still homeless, and unemployed.

Pilot {2}

Are team, desperate for money, start a    chalk selling buisness, after it fails,    they try several other things before getting    hired at a new station, WBBCC

Pilot {3}

The newsroom is visited by a Ronald Regan   impersonater, he begins to wreak havoc and   begin turning the staff against each other.   They proceed to throw the Regan out, but they   discover this fake Regan is the real thing.

The Regan of Doom

Annabelle has a new love intrest, a quirky fellow   named Theo. Meanwhile, A mystery guest has been called   to the show, who is he? what will he do? The answer is:   Its the Regan impersonator, and he has come to wreak   havoc and break up Theo and Annabelle.

Theo

Rich and Michael go on a road trip to mexico where Rich   is kidnapped and traded for beer. Meanwhile the   crew is visited by a gay man. Also, Annabelle divises   a plot to humiliate the Regan because of the loss of   her boyfriend, Theo.

Road Trip

Staurt gets a new car, and so does Rich. They decide to   have a deathrace. After Stuart wins, Rich gets depressed   and checks himself into mental institution, leaving   Stuart to get him out.

Machine

In this newly edited version, the comments   {or slurs} against the United Nations    and the male nudity scene are cut out.   HBO also wanted the scene where a woman   is penetrated by a mans fingers {i could be   more specific, but this is a G-Rated site}   edited down so you see only a bit of nudity.

Halloween {Edited Version}

Audrie gets two love intrests, Rob and Bob, who turn out   to be brothers. Meanwhile, Rich has a try at boxing, and of   course, fails miserably.

Audrie in Love

After Rich's father dies, he makes an ass of himself at the funeral. Eating candles and making love to a dog.

The Funeral

The Stuido is visted by an Arnold Swartzenger type character.   Audire and Annabelle both fall in love with him, so does Rich, who   questions his sexuality.

Action Star

Rich joins a group club. Little does he know this club is the dreaded Klu Kulx Klan. Meanwhile Micheal tries to call a bet made by Stuart that he can make love to 3 women at once.

KKK and Rich

Rich gets plastic surgeary, but his doctors fear he has gotten cancer from the plastic. Meanwhile, Stuart and Melanie have a flashback of there mystery past.

Human Face

In this Goof episode. A murderer terrorizes the studio and our newscasters must find   the killer.

Blood Not Simple

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.

Levity

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"".

Shotgun

A british filmaker comes to the studio and begins to seduce the female staff members. Rich swears to teach the British man a lesson.

Sunday, Bloody Sunday, Coarse Light

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.

Sex at 10 Feet

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.

A Little Sex with Breakfast

Rich is kicked in the groin    and must spend 3 weeks in    a hospital ward.

The Kick

Rich is fired from the studio but regains his contract when   he seduces the new female head of the studio.

The Real Kick

A series of clips titled ""The Best of Not the News""

Clip Show

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.

There is no Regan

Rich runs the New York marathon and wins. But is stripped of the title becuase of false rumors about steriod addiction. He must find out who framed him.

Marathon

A foreign man gets a job in the studio, and as usual, he seduces the female members of the staff.

The Guy from Elecko

Rich goes on a hunt for the world's largest breasts. Searching London, Paris, and Los Angeles. Our newscasters follow him and chase the story.

Le Boob

Rich continues his search for the world largest breasts. Taking him to Hong Kong and Brazil. He finds that his co-star, Annabelle, is the winner of the contest.

Le Boob Part 2

While in Autrailia, Annabelle and Michael suffer romantic obsession and jealousy before Rich comes and ruins everything by gettting tangled up with the mob.

Annabelle and Rich Go Down Under

3 short stories

1} ""The Quickining"" It is shown to us what would happen if everything in life were sped up 90%

2} ""Robotican"" Rich gets a robotic arm and it begins to take controll of his life

3} ""Leprechan"" The Studio is visited by 3 Leprechans

Tales of 3

Stuart's brother comes to the studio and falls in love with Annablle.

Brother and Mother

Our studio gets a very very speical visit   from the pope himself.

The Pope

Stuart and Rich institute an infamous studio fight club.

Fight Club

An hour long speical celerating the best moments of the show.

Not Necessarily the News: America

The entire staff is ordered to undergo a sexaholics class.

Hot Noise

After Micheal leaves the studio, the team gets a new member, Melanie, a young colledge student.

The New Chick

Annabelle and Melanie fight over a man who, little known to them is an axe murderer.

The Fight

A comedian comes to the stuido,and, once agian, seduces the female members of the staff.

The Comedian

Rich produces his own ""Girls gone wild"" movie. Traveling to greece to find out who's the wildest.

GGG {1}

Rich's video takes him the the pacific northwest.

GGG {2}

Rich goes on a quest to see if he can have sex   with 100 women in 1 day.

100...........Just 100

In this phyco rift, Melanie holes up in an old hotel and is stalked by a mysteroius stranger.

This Phyco Rift

In ""A Night of Elm Street"" spoof, our newscaster are haunted by a Freddy type madman.

Freddy

Stuart writes a script but has a hard time getting it published.

The Script

Film Festival

Audire got Run Over by a Reindeer

Rich's uncle dies and he drags all his co-workers to the funeral.

The Death

The Elf

Not Necessarily the Year in Review

Shake off those winter doldrums with "the fastest and sometimes funniest half-hours on television.

March Edition

When the crew visits Capitol Hill, Frosty Kimelman decides her name has been holding her back, so she goes through a succession of name changes. Also, Pat Robertson, Dr. Robert Schuller, Rev. Jerry Falwell, and Father Guido Sarducci square off; Jesse Helms discusses a crackdown on pornography; Nancy Reagan talks about stepdaughter Maureen; plus Ronald Reagan stands by for an interview with Bob Charles.

Inside Washington

Sketches include: Surprise!, Murch's Fried Pieces, This Date in Comedy, Football Wrap-Up, Arm and Hammer Baking Soda & morning Sniglets.

October Edition

The crew visits the red carpet to report on the 97th Annual Golden Calf Awards. Also, Dolly Parton and Madonna are interviewed, Helen St. Thomas visits Frankenstein's monster and The Wolf Man at a retirement home, Don King presents new sniglets, and former child star Jay North goes on a rampage.

Inside Entertainment

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.

The Best Seasons of Not Necessarily the News

The Best Seasons of Not Necessarily the News

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

Season 4

Season 5