John MacKay met Ron Burgundy: Will Ferrell discusses new Anchorman film The legend of Will Ferrell's Anchorman, Ron Burgundy, began in 2004 but harks back to the 70s, a time when news readers had salon-quality hair and were rarely sober - a time that John MacKay, one of STV News' own anchormen, remembers well. Released on Wednesday, new film Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues picks up Ron Burgundy's story several years on from his local TV job in San Diego and sees the hapless newsreader move to New York to help establish a 24-hour news network. John MacKay was privileged to meet the cast of the new film - as well as close friend of the man "put on the planet to read the news," Will Ferrell - and compare notes on how best to "fix" the news when it "breaks." The anchorman would not confirm if the new film contains more of the Panda Watch footage that Scottish viewers have become so familiar with in recent years but it is safe to assume there will be a great deal more appreciation of our national drink. As STV's own anchorman would say: "Hoocha!"