Waterloo Road's Neil Pearson and Hollyoaks legend Jeff Rawle's classic TV show Drop the Dead Donkey is returning as a live stage show.
Originally running from 1990 to 1998 on Channel 4, Drop the Dead Donkey parodied the TV news industry by chronicling the highs and lows of the GlobeLink news team as they faced changes from a corporate acquisition.
Editor George Dent (Rawle) and his team fought back against increasingly tabloid-y changes devised by the company's CEO Gus Hedges (Casualty's Robert Duncan) in order to chase ratings.
More than 30 years later, the Globelink News team have reunited for a stage production for the first time ever as they parody the modern 24-hour TV news format.
Pearson, Rawle and Duncan will be joined by fellow original cast members Susannah Doyle (Black Mirror), Ingrid Lacey (London's Burning) and Victoria Wicks (Glue).
Outnumbered writing duo Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin have penned the script for Drop the Dead Donkey: The Reawakening! to satirise "the underside of the broadcasting industry in all its riotous glory", according to a press release.
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Below are the UK tour dates for Drop the Dead Donkey: The Reawakening!:
- Richmond Theatre, January 30 to February 3, 2024
- Theatre Royal Brighton, March 5 to March 9, 2024
- Milton Keynes Theatre, March 12 to March 16, 2024
- The Alexandra, Birmingham, April 16 to April 20, 2024
- New Victoria Theatre, Woking, May 28 to June 1, 2024
Tickets for the return of Drop the Dead Donkey are available now and priced from £13.00 to £63.00, with a bonus transaction fee of £3.80 added for each ticket.
In its original run, Drop the Dead Donkey won the prestigious Best Comedy (Programme or Series) Award at the BAFTA TV Awards in 1994, and also won an International Emmy Award for Outstanding Popular Arts Programming.
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