Broadcast News is only a television show.
Broadcast News (film) . The film concerns a virtuoso television news producer ( Holly Hunter ) , who has daily emotional breakdowns , a brilliant yet prickly reporter ( Albert Brooks ) and his charismatic but far less seasoned rival ( William Hurt ) . It also stars Robert Prosky , Lois Chiles , Joan Cusack , and Jack Nicholson ( billed only in the end credits ) as the evening news anchor . Lois Cleveland Chiles ( born April 15 , 1947 ) is an American actress and former fashion model known for her roles as Dr. Holly Goodhead in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker , and as a hit and run driver in 1987 's Creepshow 2 , as well as such films as The Great Gatsby , The Way We Were , Death on the Nile and Broadcast News .