An ABC Breakfast News Segment On MH17 Crash Victims Accidentally/Hilariously Cut To A Scene From ‘Black Books’
Oh nooo.
Well, for someone in the ABC Breakfast News team, Dylan Moran will never be quite as funny again.
Reporting live from Canberra on the first anniversary of the tragic Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 crash in Ukraine, Breakfast News anchor Michael Rowland introduced what was meant to be an interview with former defence chief Sir Angus Houston, who coordinated the police effort to recover the remains of the Australian victims of the crash.
Instead, it cut to footage from popular British sitcom, Black Books — presumably teed up to plug Dylan Moran’s current Australian tour.
Shared by Media Watch, the footage, which ran for an awkwardly long time, could still be heard as a weary Michael Rowland popped back on screen and remarked, “We apologise. That clearly wasn’t Sir Angus Houston”. No Michael, it was not.