In February of this year, a prologue informs us, a documentary film crew began shooting the day-to-day adventures of the news staff at station KHBX in Spokane, Wash., to capture what the TV news business is actually like.
"This," says the prologue, "is the real story."
Except it isn't.
It's all made up -- a fracturingly funny fake whose model, very clearly, is the English version of "The Office," a brilliantly original sitcom-cum-docucom that inspired the American imitation on NBC. The British original was the creation largely of Ricky Gervais, who brings a new, martini-dry comic sensibility to television, represented again in his mercilessly funny HBO series "Extras," about human flotsam living on the soggy peripheries of the movie business.
Read the whole story and then you be the judge. Is it real, fake or real fake?
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