The News Team

The Newsreader Series

 * A Newsreader Trying to Get Other Jobs (09/08/2018): the first episode was shot in their Edinburgh Fringe gaff. Arms commented in the outro that Tiernan's voice was "absolutely exhausting", and he repeated that statement during one lockdown PUBG stream (12 May 2020) where he took on this character (costume and all!) for an entire game.


 * Newsreader on a Date (28/03/2019): shot at the office using a proper set made to look like a brasserie ("Belladonna").
 * News Team in isolation can't cope (07/05/2020): shot during lockdown each in or around their own houses (Arms in his attic even though it's supposed to be a bathroom). Foil enlisted a member of his household to open his front door from him, Hog made a drawing that got reused in Lockdown is Tough on Everyone (making fans wonder if the bully was reporter Stephen's son).
 * Newsreader Delivers Best Man Speech (24/09/2020): shot at the office using a sheet as a backdrop.IMG 20200925 094645.jpg reused a prop from Millennials in their 90s Reflect on the Past. That plant is definitely plastic!

Main Characters

 * Tiernan Callaghan (Arms): the newsreader. 32 years old. Square, monotonous, nasal, sharply dressed.Tiernan Callaghan.jpged to Claire, with children. Hobbies: business, current affairs, entertainment and sport. Weaknesses: binge eating and impulse buying online.
 * Tiernan's brother (Hog): a character very similar to Thomas McCormack!
 * Ciara (Foil): this is one of Foil's few female characters (compared to the other two) and possibly a recurring one even though she's not named as such in other sketches. If so, she's involved in a break up with another Arms character in How to Fix a Broken Relationship (which interestingly premiered the week after the "Date" episode). She had an even more troubling relationship with Hog's black-wigged thug type a couple of months before, in How to Destroy a Family (10/01/2019). Foil's "Ciara type" wasn't quite new, she Ciara.jpg up in Childcare Hacks (26/01/2017) and in the very early sketch The Vet (18/06/2013). Ciara is the real straight character in the sketch, opposite the hilariously exaggerated "squareness" of the newsreader character.
 * Steven O'Brien (Foil): Tiernan's best friend.

Other characters

 * The interviewer from the temp office (Foil): a character similar to Foil's Realistic Career Guide
 * The waiter from Brasserie Belladonna (Hog)
 * Colin Whitaker (Hog): correspondent on the ground
 * Steven (Hog): weatherman
 * Morris (Foil): sport commentator
 * Richard Barry: father of the bride (Michelle) and former horse racing commentator

PUBG stream (12 May 2020)




The Bad Interviewer
Hog's iconic character.