Claim: Broadcast News is a film.

Broadcast News is a 1987 romantic comedy-drama film written , produced and directed by James L. Brooks . The film concerns a virtuoso television news producer -LRB- Holly Hunter -RRB- , who has daily emotional breakdowns , a brilliant yet prickly reporter -LRB- Albert Brooks -RRB- and his charismatic but far less seasoned rival -LRB- William Hurt -RRB- . It also stars Robert Prosky , Lois Chiles , Joan Cusack , and Jack Nicholson -LRB- billed only in the end credits -RRB- as the evening news anchor .