The comedians chase local paper scoops in their new TV series Hold the Front Page. But many of their stories were destined for what reporters call the spike …
It is easy to make fun of local newspapers. At first glance, the stories can appear limited in scope or even ridiculous. But then Nish Kumar and Josh Widdicombe picked up their reporters’ notebooks for a TV challenge.
In an unlikely turn of events, perhaps suited to a bold headline and an exclamation mark, the two television comedians may have accidentally improved the wider reputation of journalists in the course of making a deliberately silly show. Their series, Hold the Front Page, which goes out weekly on Sky Max and Now TV, sees the two performers temporarily join the staff of a string of established local titles in an attempt to get their news articles printed.
