I've been re-watching the first series of Drop the Dead Donkey

[NewYearSameMe]

A young Neil Pearson, I still would.

A lot of the situational stuff is still quite funny, even if the news related stuff doesn't make as much sense anymore.

[VikingLady]

I really love DTDD! You've reminded me to dig out the DVDs

[VikingLady]

Oh, and so would I

[NewYearSameMe]

It's on 4OD, all six series, if you can't find the DVDs.

[TwoLeftSocks]

Might have to look that up!

[TwoLeftSocks]

I'm currently re-watching all of Father Ted, I'll look it up after this.

[Fishboneschokus]

He's in 'by the Pricking of My Thumbs' by Agatha Christie on ITV hub if you want to look at a later version.

[ILoveWillSmith]

I used to love DTDD! Damien placing his teddy bear at every disaster scene to make it more tragic! Don't imagine that happens in RL do you?

[NewYearSameMe]

Oh no, I'm sure foreign crisis reporting is of the highest moral calibre.

I've just seen young Daniel Craig doing a terrible East End accent in series 3.

[Bunbaker]

I loved DTDD. I'm glad it can be accessed on 4OD. Must watch some.

[Destinysdaughter]

I loved DTDD! Wish they'd bring it back, it would be brilliant! And Neil Pearson, he was hot!

[Tiggeryoubastard]

Sally, the hotbed of repression and the totally opposite to her male newsreader were fantastic. I loved that series.

[NewYearSameMe]

My favourite was Joy, she was vicious.

[VikingLady]

Damien had a teddy and a blood stained plimsol iirc. Mum and I used to look for that kind of thing on the real news I still do

[StandoutMop]

Joy was (and still is) my heroine. She was awesome.

[Siwi]

And he dunked a healthy seabird in oil from an oil slick.

[Twistedheartache]

Love it - and I so would too

[IfItsGoodEnough4ShirleyBassey]

We now get a channel called London Live which plays forgotten nineties sitcoms on hard rotation. They went through a DTDD phase, and it was brilliant.

[TendonQueen]

Ooh Shirley what else do they show?

[IfItsGoodEnough4ShirleyBassey]

They're doing Black Books at the moment, which is a stone cold classic but not quite as exciting because one of the Channel 4s was showing it recently, and also I have all the DVD.s.
www.londonlive.co.uk/#bookmark
They recently did a Green Wing binge which was great. And Coupling which is a guilty pleasure.

[HarrietSchulenberg]

Well that's my weekend viewing sorted then . I loved DTDD and modelled myself on Joy when I was a PA. I must have been a delight (but still got promotions so can't have been too awful).

I too had a Black Books and Green Wing binge recently so am really looking forward to this one.

[Siwi]

Black Books, Dodd and Green Wing are all on Channel 4 OD. And the IT Crowd.

[lorelei9]

ah, is that series the one with a very young Ben Daniels? Just 1 ep, starring as Henry's nephew I think.

I prefer him older tbh but when I dug it out online, I did think I would have fancied him if I had seen it at the time.

[Destinysdaughter]

Also fancied Neil Pearson in Bridget Jones, although his character was a bit of a sleaze. It was like he was the same character just a bit older!

[coffeeisnectar]

Oh I loved it. I remember when they had all the prisoners walking in a circle to make it look like hundreds. His reports were never quite what he wanted.

And joy was the best badly named character ever. :o

[PerspicaciaTick]

I often mutter "behind me, scenes of complete devastation" when watching particularly hyperbolic RL news reports. It helps me remember that all may not be as it seems.