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

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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.

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

Oh, and so would I

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

Might have to look that up!

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

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

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?

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.

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

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

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

My favourite was Joy, she was vicious.

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

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

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

Love it - and I so would too

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.

Ooh Shirley what else do they show?

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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.