Press is a six-part British television drama series first aired on BBC One on 6 September 2018. Created and written by Mike Bartlett, the series depicts two rival British newspapers and the lives of their senior employees. It was broadcast in the United States in October 2019 and December 2020 â January 2021.
The series was cancelled after one series. However, it was remade in India as The Broken News in 2022.
The review aggregator, Rotten Tomatoes, gave Press a rating of 95%. Sophie Gilbert of The Atlantic called it "fascinating" and "periodically clunky."
Journalists were not impressed with the show, Digital Spy calling it "less realistic than Star Trek." Sean O'Grady of The Independent characterised it as "too cliché-ridden, its characters two-dimensional stereotypes, floating around like dead fish in a tank." The Guardian's Sam Wollaston gave it three stars, but called its picture of the industry "20 years out of date."
BBC Studios India produced a Hindi language remake, written by Bartlett and Sambit Mishra, for streaming service ZEE5. It stars Jaideep Ahlawat, Sonali Bendre, Shriya Pilgaonkar, Indraneil Sengupta, Taaruk Raina, Aakash Khurana and Kiran Kumar. The Broken News began streaming on 10 June 2022.