The Noose (TV series)

The Noose
The title screen of The Noose
Genre	News satire
Created by	Prem Anand
Written by	Prem Anand
Presented by	Chua En Lai Alaric Tay Suhaimi Yusof Judee Tan Michelle Chong (Seasons 1-5, 7-) Siti Khalijah (Seasons 7-) Kayly Loh (Seasons 9-) Gurmit Singh (Season 1)
Country of origin	Singapore
Original language(s)	English
No. of episodes	40 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Remesh Kumar
Producer(s)	Sebastian Leang Tan Ing How
Running time	30 minutes (with commercials)
Release
Original network	Mediacorp Channel 5 Mediacorp HD5
Original release	November 4, 2007 – present
External links
Website

The Noose is an Emmy-nominated Singapore comedy television series produced by Mediacorp Channel 5, the country's English language channel.

Although the name of the show plays on the word The News, the literal gallows humor of the program's name is unlikely to be missed by viewers in a country which executes people by hanging, and the use of "neck-cuffs". Like its name, the show satirises socio-cultural and political issues in Singapore as well as newsworthy local and regional incidents involving Singapore. The third season began airing on June 1, 2010. The fourth season began airing on March 8, 2011. The fifth season began airing on December 27, 2011 and features topics such as the Mayan Calendar and doomsday and other relevant current issues. A sixth season began airing on April 2, 2013, aligned with the renumbering of Mediacorp news programmes.Michelle Chong will not return to the cast for the sixth season. A seventh season began airing on 1 April 2014 (April Fools' Day), with Chong set to return to the show.

The show has received recognition both locally and internationally. It earned a nomination at the International Emmy Awards 2011 in the comedy category. The cast has also been nominated and won awards and commendations at the Asian Television Awards.

The Noose is a parody of local news programmes such as News 5 Tonight, with fictional news reports and a presentation mimicking that of the actual news bulletin. For example, every episode of News 5 Tonight begins with a CGI clock indicating the time, while every episode of the first two seasons of The Noose would spoof it by displaying the time using something more mundane, such as a plastic clock hanging on a wall or an alarm clock. At the beginning of every episode, there is a candid disclaimer, voiced by Andre Chichak (portrayed by Alaric Tay), telling the viewers that the stories are not true, most notably by using the line 'Believing us is like believing that...' (Eg, believing that drinking a certain energy drink (Red Bull) makes you fly).