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channel from 5 January 2009 to 10 August 2011. The show stars

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as Digby Digworth, an ambitious but inept journalist for a fictional local newspaper, ''The Pilbury Post''. Each episode centres on Digby's failure to get a

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, ending up causing mayhem and disaster instead. In each of these he is accompanied by

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, a

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. The show also stars

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as the newspaper's short-tempered

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, Max de Lacey and there are guest appearances by popular British TV actors such as

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and

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who plays Selena Sharp, reporter for a rival paper. In one episode the famous children's writer

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is parodied as a novelist character called T. K. Towling, while in another

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(ex ''Top Gear'' presenter) is satirised with the character Clark Jameson. The episodes are 28 minutes in length and were originally stripped (broadcast every day) across weekdays on

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at 3.25 pm between 5 January and 23 January. Hacker T. Dog, a

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character, made his first appearance on this show. He was later used as a presenter on the CBBC TV channel. Hacker appeared presenting the CBBC channel from 23 May 2009 with

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, a comedian from

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. In series 1 of ''Scoop'' he was operated by Andy Heath, but when he began presenting CBBC he was operated by

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who has

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ed Hacker since. A second season began airing in September 2010 and a third began airing a new episode every day from 25 July.

Plot

Each episode begins in much the same way with a short sequence in which Digby is awoken by an elaborate alarm system, then tries in vain to prevent the paperboy throwing his newspaper into a puddle. Similarly the episodes all end in the same way with a short sequence in which the editor inspects a newspaper front page expecting to see a great story, but is instead frustrated when it shows instead a picture depicting the results of Digby's clumsiness and mistakes, at which point Max de Lacey shouts "Digby Digworth!". In every series 1 episode, Digby and Hacker have to turn to the mysterious Sid the Source when in trouble, who considers covering his face from the public. Hacker often mistakes Sid the Source as a sauce topping, so every time Digby said "Every reporter needs a source", Hacker holds up a different type of sauce each episode.

Cast

as Digby Digworth * Andy Heath as

(series 1) *

(series 2–3) *

as Max de Lacey *

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as Simon *

as Selina Sharp *

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as Sid the Scource (series 1) * Miles Barrow as Newspaper Boy (series 1) *

as Newspaper Deliverer (series 2)

Episodes

Season 1 (2009)

Season 2 (2010)

Season 3 (2011)

References

External links

Scoop
at the Internet Movie Database * *
Episode Guide at Onthebox.com

Article on the show's Special Effects at Smoothdevil.com
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