| Programme: |
Drop the Dead Donkey |
| Broadcast: |
1990 - 1998 (Channel 4) |
| Episodes: |
65 (6 series) |
| Starring: |
Robert Duncan, Haydn Gwynne, Ingrid Lacey, Stephen Tompkinson |
| Written by: |
Andy Hamilton, Guy Jenkin |
| Directed by: |
Liddy Oldroyd |
| Production: |
Hat Trick Productions  |
| Synopsis: |
The offices of Globelink News TV was the setting of this
topical sitcom. The news station had just been acquired by
a multi-millionaire media tycoon who orders that the company
should start taking a sensationalist stance to the news (much
like the real ITV and Fox News do).
Yuppie Gus Hedges (who speaks using nothing but media 'buzz
words') is in charge of the transformation. The nervous news
editor George Dent is too weak to stand up to Gus so it is
left to his second in command Alex (a bright female) to try
and stop Gus ruining the news.
Other staff included laddish womaniser Dave Charnley, ambitious
moral-free field reporter Damien Day, and newsreaders Henry
Davenport (old fashioned) and Sally Smedley (a brainless bimbo).
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| BSG Review: |
The excellently written and portrayed characters made this
sitcom a sure fire success for Channel 4 in the 90s. The topical
gags added something special to the show but these were soon made
less of a feature allowing for a deeper insight into the lives
of the staff.
Un-ethical Damien Day was a particularly great character - watching him manipulate and orchestrate the news pictures to his own advantage is great fun. Some of the management speak Gus Hedges came out with was equally funny - "I'd just like you to stir-fry a few ideas in my think-wok"!
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DROP THE DEAD DONKEY
