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	Encyclopedia: Drop the Dead Donkey
		Drop the Dead Donkey was a situation comedy that ran on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom from 1990 to 1998.
		Susannah Doyle is best known for her roles as Joy Merryweather in Britcom Drop The Dead Donkey, and Avril Burke in Ballykissangel.
		This contradicted the already thoroughly contradicted novel Drop The Dead Donkey 2000 by Hamilton and Alistair Beaton (1994) ISBN 0316912360, which had predicted its destruction at the turn of the millennium.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Drop-the-Dead-Donkey (1260 words)

	Guardian \| Liddy Oldroyd
		She directed a wide portfolio of successful programmes, but was probably most strongly associated with the Channel 4 sitcom Drop the Dead Donkey, the weekly tale of life in a chaotic TV newsroom, peopled by dysfunctional - yet vaguely heroic - losers, first screened in 1990.
		Drop the Dead Donkey went on to win critical plaudits and a host of awards, including a BAFTA and two international Emmys.
		David Swift writes:Engaging Liddy to direct all 65 episodes of Drop the Dead Donkey, in which I played the veteran newscaster Henry Davenport, was an inspired decision by the writers and producers, Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4460741-103684,00.html (831 words)

	Drop The Dead Donkey - Complete Season 1 - Compare prices
		Drop the Dead Donkey was a situation, satirical comedy, set in the offices of "Globelink News", a fictional TV news company in the style of CNN, ITN, Sky News, etc. Globelink has been acquired by a multi-millionaire tycoon who prefers a more sensationalist stance to the news.
		The characters were created to exaggerate the perceived ideas of office/media stereotypes and each programme was recorded close to transmission, allowing script changes to incorporate maximum topicality in particularly of a political nature.
		First aired in 1990, Drop the Dead Donkey was an innovative comedy that launched the careers of several successful comic actors.
	www.priceclash.co.uk /drop-the-dead-donkey (254 words)

	British Sitcom Guide - Competitions - Drop The Dead Donkey Series 1
		Drop the Dead Donkey, a sitcom set in a TV news room, ran for six series from 1990 to 1998.
		Considered one of the pivotal situation comedies of its time, Drop the Dead Donkey was instrumental in the development of many later comedies and is still way ahead of its time by recording in front a live studio audience just hours before transmission.
		Watching it back the series could have been filmed yesterday though - Iraq is still an issue, TV news is still sensationalist (although hopefully they're not faking the news quite like Stephen Tomkinson's character) and the government is still trying to tax us out of existence.
	www.sitcom.co.uk /competitions/dropdonkey1.shtml (180 words)

	Wargames Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		If all was well the donkey would be swapped and the mission a success...this was going to be a hair-brained mission thought Sir Roderick and he wondered if he would be alive in a day’s time to tell the tale of the Holy Donkey of St Bartholemews.
		The donkey is dead and has been left abandoned just near to the Busty Barmaid Inn and has been left in full view of the village inhabitants and will be easily seen by our Good Guys as they enter the village.
		The donkey is dead, so no points there and we have a couple of pretty evenly pitched bands of warriors.
	www.wargamesjournal.com /middle/dead_donkey_june_2004.asp (1893 words)

	Directory - Regional: Europe: United Kingdom: Arts and Entertainment: Television: Programmes: Comedy: Drop The Dead ...
		BBC Comedy Guide: Drop The Dead Donkey · Description of the show, a cast and crew list, transmission details and desktop wallpaper.
		Epguides: Drop the Dead Donkey · cached · Titles, synopses and air dates for each episode.
		BBC News: Dead donkey finally dropped · Brief report on the final demise of the show.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=168697 (168 words)

	Gushoneybungirl Neil Pearson Interview
		It was Drop the Dead Donkey, and it was the autumn of 1990 in a rehearsal room somewhere in north London.
		Rob Duncan, who played Gus in Drop the Dead Donkey, started to do panto, which was excellent news because if you have to go to a pantomime, go with the writers of Drop the Dead Donkey: the heckles are just world-class!
		The reason that Donkey worked so well was that underneath the antagonisms of the characters, there was a bedrock of trust among the actors.
	www.geocities.com /gushoneybungirl/neil_pearson_article_1.htm (1052 words)

	Nick Revill - The Last Laugh Comedy Club Sheffield UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		He wrote Drop The Dead Donkey, and has contributed to Room 101 and Rory Bremner.
		Nick Revell is behind an awful lot of TV comedy from the last few years, such as Drop The Dead Donkey, Rory Bremner and Room 101.
		He wrote Drop The Dead Donkey and has been gigging since 'alternative comedy' (whatever that is) first started to take off in the early '80s.
	www.tobyfoster.clara.net /Halloffame/hf_nickrevill.htm (803 words)

	Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)
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		Based in the offices of 'Globelink News', the bosses want their news coverage to be as advertiser-friendly as possible.
	www.moovybuff.co.uk /products/drop-dead-gorgeous-1999.htm (237 words)

	Sendit.com - Drop The Dead Donkey - The Writer's Choice
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		Now you can relive their triumph and disasters (well, just their disasters, to be strictly accurate) in this bumper, commemorative collection.
		Drop the Dead Donkey's creators, Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin, have selected 6 episodes, never previously released on video, that they regard as personal favourites.
	www.sendit.com /video/item/7000000053657 (238 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - 'Drop the Dead Donkey' - the TV Series
		As well as the awards for Drop the Dead Donkey, she won the Women in Film Kodak Award for Creativity in 1992 and a Montreux Award in 1992.
		In this comic version of a demented millennium, the characters from Channel 4's BAFTA award-winning sitcom 'Drop the Dead Donkey' find themselves sucked into a murder plot which reaches into the highest echelons of government; a plot which includes conspiracy, corruption and very poor sexual performance.
		Drop the Dead Donkey is regularly repeated in the UK on the Paramount Comedy Channel.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A637887 (2332 words)

	Drop The Dead Donkey The Complete Second Series UK dvd region 2 PAL
		Drop The Dead Donkey The Complete Second Series UK dvd region 2 PAL
		Drop The Dead Donkey The Complete Second Series
		And, of course this is the season when Sally brings her dead mothers ashes into work with her, then finding religion later.
	www.ukdvdfilms.com /Drop_The_Dead_Donkey_The_Complete_Second_Series-item_id-B0009S4EPU-search_type-AsinSearch-locale-uk.htm (185 words)

	"Drop the Dead Donkey" (1990) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Trivia: The show was originally entitled "Dead Belgians Don't Count".
		from Derbyshire, UK "Drop the Dead Donkey" ran in six series from 1990 to 1996.
		The bulk of the humour deals with then-topical British news, so the program doesn't really travel well, or last more than a week (a long time in politics).
	us.imdb.com /title/tt0098781 (470 words)

	Drop the Dead Donkey Complete First Series - The Memorable TV DVD Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		This 2 disc set from 2Entertain contains every episode from the first season, shown late night Fridays on Channel 4, Drop the Dead Donkey was one of those get home from the pub early shows, very funny, cleverly so and certainly one to savour again now.
		The title refers to any funny or quirky news story that news rooms make use of but is dropped if a big story comes along.
		Don't be afraid to reach out on a limb because that's where all the fruit is....
	www.memorabletv.com /dvdreviews05/dropthedeaddonkeyseries1.htm (304 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Jokes don't come more topical than those in Channel 4's TV newsroom sitcom Drop the Dead Donkey.
		The hostages never did get into Drop the Dead Donkey last night.
		There are plenty of others which could have been included - the papers say Joseph Cicippio might soon be free but you have to be careful making jokes with the news: originally the show was going to be called Dead Belgians Don't Count but Channel 4 worried about the possibility of a disaster in Belgium.
	www.dwjbrider.freeserve.co.uk /dtdd_travails.htm (1159 words)

	BBC - Comedy Guide - Drop The Dead Donkey
		The writers kicked around a number of titles for the series but their personal favourite, Dead Belgians Don't Count, was deemed too offensive by C4, which feared - jokingly, perhaps - that it might harm sales to Belgian TV.
		So it became Drop The Dead Donkey instead, an all-purpose reference to a story bumped from the news agenda by a more important story or time constraints.
		A Drop The Dead Donkey feature film was cancelled during production (it was shot between TV series four and five) but its spin-off novel Drop The Dead Donkey 2000 (written by Guy Jenkin and Alistair Beaton) was published, telling how the Globelink staff measured up to the new millennium.
	www.bbc.co.uk /sitcom/top100/dropthedeaddonke_7772455.shtml (933 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: DVD: Drop The Dead Donkey - Complete Season 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Drop the Dead Donkey 2000 (A Channel Four Book) by Andy Hamilton, et al
		This is the 1st item in the Drop the Dead Donkey series.
		To anyone who grew up or was politically conscious in the Major era, the art of satire might now seem dead, with topical funny programmes covering Big Brother and David Beckham as much as any of the pratfalls of the Labour government.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0007LPLR4 (868 words)

	Drop the Dead Donkey 2000 (A Channel Four Book) Book at Shop Ireland
		Drop the Dead Donkey 2000 (A Channel Four Book) by: Andy Hamilton, Alistair Beaton, Alistair Beeton
		A Drop the Dead Donkey film was being made in 1995, but was for some reason scrapped half-way through production.
		It's a good story and is very funny, but some how it just isn't as good as the TV shows.
	www.shopireland.ie /books/detail/0751513660/Drop-the-Dead-Donkey-2000 (206 words)

	getReading - Powered by Evening Post (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Drop The Dead Donkey actor Robert Duncan had a double lesson in farce when he took over two leading roles in Ray Cooney’s Caught In The Net in the West End.
		In Drop The Dead Donkey, the long-running series set in a TV newsroom, Robert played yuppie yes-man Gus Hedges.
		He had to stay alert because last-minute topical items were fed into the show before it went out to a live audience.
	www.getreading.co.uk /pfriendly.asp?intid=4997 (285 words)

	> > Compare UK dvd prices. Drop The Dead Donkey - The Writer's Choice [2001] , Susannah Doyle, Robert Duncan, Liddy ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Drop The Dead Donkey - The Writer's Choice [2001], Susannah Doyle, Robert Duncan, Liddy Oldroyd.
		Living abroad & without access to Channel 4, it was over 10 years since I had seen Drop the Dead Donkey but I had fond memories.
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	www.best-dvd-price.co.uk /compare-dvd-price-code-B00005N8CJ.html (433 words)

	Drop the Dead Donkey - TV Programs Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Drop the Dead Donkey : A Shame They Dropped It
		I always thought Drop The Dead Donkey was a very funny sitcom.
		It was set in the offices of Globelink News and this setting gave the opportunity for some good topical news related jokes about people or items in the news.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /tv-programs/drop-the-dead-donkey (166 words)

	icSouthlondon - Drop the dead Nazi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		FROM the biting satire of Drop The Dead Donkey to the romantic fluff of Bridget Jones and now the gravity of post-war 1940s Germany - no one could accuse Neil Pearson of playing to type.
		Pearson, 44, whose best-loved roles include womaniser Dave Charnley in Channel 4's satire Drop The Dead Donkey and Tony Clark in the BBC police drama Behind The Lines, says: "It's the quality of the writing which always brings me to the job."
		"Between The Lines and Drop The Dead Donkey were on at the same time, so hopefully it showed I could do comedy and straight drama.
	icsouthlondon.icnetwork.co.uk /1000whatson/0300theatre/content_objectid=13794899_method=full_siteid=50100_headline=-Drop-the-dead-Nazi-name_page.html (897 words)

	Drop Dead Funny - Related Articles @ Funny.co.uk
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	www.funny.co.uk /keywords/drop-dead-funny.html (190 words)

	Drop The Dead Donkey - Complete Season 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Im happy that DTDD is being released on DVD because I enjoyed what I saw of it when it was aired and found the previously released highlights dvd insufficient.
		The comedy is very entertaining, but I feel that the characters are too caricatured, which I think prevents this series from being a real classic.lt;BRgt;Nevertheless, plenty of entertainment to be had here and I will be buying season 2.
		Drop the Dead Donkey 2000 (A Channel Four Book)
	www.bookhub.co.uk /Drop_The_Dead_Donkey__Complete_Season_1_jhnza_B0007LPLR4.html (374 words)

	SpendBling.com online store : DVD : Drop The Dead Donkey - The Writer's Choice [2001]
		DVD : Drop The Dead Donkey - The Writer's Choice [2001]
		Living abroad and without access to Channel 4, it was over 10 years since I had seen Drop the Dead Donkey but I had fond memories.
		They had not been tempered by time; it is indeed a very funny programme.
	uk.spendbling.com /store-item_id-B00005N8CJ-search_type-AsinSearch-locale-uk.html (315 words)

	Sendit.com - Drop The Dead Donkey - The Complete First Series (Two Discs) (DVD)
		Drop The Dead Donkey - The Complete First Series (Two Discs) (DVD)
		Drop The Dead Donkey - The Complete Second Series (Two Discs) (DVD) (Region 2)
		Drop The Dead Donkey - The Complete Third Series (Two Discs) (DVD) (Region 2)
	www.sendit.com /dvd/item/7000000099165 (349 words)

	BBC - Comedy Guide - Drop The Dead Donkey
		Hamilton and Jenkin were confident that they could make the topicality technique work and proved it by generating a fast-paced, witty, almost American-style production.
		However, while this topicality is a talking point, Drop The Dead Donkey became special for the same reasons that all fine sitcoms are special: the witty interplay between a richly observed bunch of diverse characters.
		The final TV series showed the staff working under the knowledge that Globelink had been sold and that their days were numbered.
	www.bbc.co.uk /comedy/guide/articles/d/dropthedeaddonke_7772455.shtml (933 words)

	Drop the Dead Donkey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		In the good old days, a "dead donkey" was a journalistic synonym for a news item of no real significance, something to be quickly dropped when a story of great human interest arises.
		But ignoring human deaths in favor of a dead donkey is also human cruelty.
		Many people thought that PETA was justified in only remarking about the donkey since their official concern is limited to animals.
	www.zootorah.com /essays/donkey.html (2042 words)

	Drop Dead Fred (1991)
		The documentary crew sent to film the Miss America Teen Princess pageant in Mount Rose Minnesota soon find themselves investigating something more interesting than a small town beauty contest.
		The station has been acquired by media tycoon Sir Royston Merchant, who, despite assurances to the contrary, sets in motion a 'dumbing down' process, making their output sensationalist rather than controversial.
		Deputy Editor Alex has quit Globelink News, leaving a post to be filled.
	www.moovybuff.co.uk /products/drop-dead-fred-1991.htm (296 words)

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