Drop The Dead Donkey cast look unrecognisable as they reunite on screen amid show revival
THE cast of Drop The Dead Donkey looked unrecognisable as they appeared on the This Morning sofa toady.
Stars Jeff Rawle, Victoria Wicks, Neil Pearson reunited to discuss the hit 1990s TV revival.
The trio are currently appearing in a stage version of the show and chatted to host Dermot O’Leary about it – leaving fans delighted.
The Channel 4 show, set in the fictional TV newsroom of GlobeLink News, ran from 1990 to 1998.
It helped make stars out of its cast including Neil, 64, who played a womanising sub-editor.
Victoria, 64, plays Sally Smedley – the snobby news reader, while Jeff, 72, plays the station editor, a nervous wreck and hypochondriac
It also features Stephen Tompkinson as sensationalist reporter Damien Day.
It is a welcome boost for the DCI Banks actor, 57, as he rebuilds his career after being cleared of GBH earlier this month.
He said: “What excites me the most is being back with the cast — we’ve known each other for 30-odd years and this is a whole new adventure.”
The stage version will feature the same characters all at sea in the world of artificial intelligence and 24-hour rolling news.
Co-creator Andy Hamilton said: “They, understandably, are going to find it hard to adapt.”
And like the TV show, the script for the stage version, which is touring the UK, is being changed at the last minute to keep the jokes as topical as possible.
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