The Day Today

1994 · Chris Morris

The Day Today is a British comedy television show that parodies television news and current affairs programmes , broadcast from 19 January to 23 February 1994 on BBC2 . It was created by Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris and is an adaptation of the radio programme On the Hour , which was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 9 August 1991 and 28 May 1992 and was also written by Morris, Iannucci, Steven Wells , Andrew Glover, Stewart Lee , Richard Herring , David Quantick , and the cast. For The Day Today , Peter Baynham joined the writing team, and Lee and Herring were replaced by Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews . The principal cast of On the Hour was retained for The Day Today . The Day Today is composed of six half-hour episodes and a selection of shorter five-minute slots recorded as promotional trailers for the longer episodes. The series won many awards including Morris winning the 1994 British Comedy Award for Best Newcomer.