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A brilliantly funny and pointed parody of aggressive TV journalism. Full of completely farcical, fictional news stories told in sharply realistic melodramatic TV News style. Plus a mockery of weather reports, sports journalism and the American reporters too. Features Steve Coogan's helmet-haired TV debut as Alan Partridge .. Read more

Starring Steve Coogan, Christopher Morris, Rebecca Front, Doon MacKichan
Director Andrew Gillman
Genres Comedy, Television

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The Day Today

A brilliantly funny and pointed parody of aggressive TV journalism. Full of completely farcical, fictional news stories told in sharply realistic melodramatic TV News style. Plus a mockery of weather reports, sports journalism and the American reporters too. Features Steve Coogan's helmet-haired TV debut as Alan Partridge behind the Sports desk. Contains the complete series.

Starring Steve Coogan, Christopher Morris, Rebecca Front, Doon MacKichan, Doon Mackichan
Director Andrew Gillman
Studio BBC WORLDWIDE PUBLISHING
Run time DVD: 3 hrs
Certificate DVD Certificate 15.gif
Genres Comedy, Television
Language English
Released DVD: 26 Apr 2004
Production year: 1994
Format DVD

The Day Today (1994)

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  • "...The freshest and funniest comedy since Monty Python..."

    • The Independent
    • Posted 11 Mar 2005

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  • 34 out of 37 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    Don't bother with disc 2

    5 stars for the first disc, but don't bother with the second 'extras' disc. Contains about 2 minutes of footage not on the first disc

      • A customer from Portsmouth
      • Posted 27 Jul 2004 19:19

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  • 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars

    Disc 2

    I have to disagree with the reviews about disc 2.

    I'll admit there is a fair bit repeated from disc 1. But you do get 6 additional news shorts, the pilot episode - which although the majority of the news items are the same, the links are different, extended versions of The Pool and The Office and an interesting (if not funny) documentary about news programming and why The Day to Day parodies it so well. There is also a very amusing newly recorded easter egg audio of Alan Partridge and Chris meeting up in the present day and Alan giving his views on Princess Di's death, David Dickinson and the assasination of JFK!

    Okay, maybe not spectacular, but a good 90 minutes of viewing, approximately 50 minutes of it which is not on disc 1.

      • James Bland from Stonehaven, Scotland
      • Posted 02 Nov 2004 21:13

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    James Gandolfini and our very own Steve Coogan are to team up in a new black comedy from the man behind The Day Today and The Thick Of It, Armando Iannucci. According to reports in showbiz newspaper Variety, the pair will star in Iannucci's directorial debut, In The Loop, a biting political satire on US-UK relations. The film will centre on the efforts of an American general (Gandolfini) and a British politico (Tom Hollander of Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest) to prevent the US... Read more

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