During the Blitz, when many clocks were destroyed, Londoners could tell the time by watching a dog throw itself off the high board, which it did precisely every 60 seconds, 24 hours a day for over ...

Brass Eye is a British comedy series parodying the current affairs news programming of the mid-1990s. A series of six episodes aired on Channel 4 in 1997, and a further episode in 2001. The series was created and presented by Chris Morris, written by Morris, David Quantick, Peter Baynham, Jane Bussmann, Arthur Mathews, Graham Linehan and Charlie Brooker and directed by Michael Cumming.