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1994

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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

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

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- "...The freshest and funniest comedy since Monty Python..."
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  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
  
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  Bitingly hilarious in its day
  
  I remember seeing it the first time round when it was icily pertinant ot the time, but, like Fawlty Towers before it when I started watching it yesterday I ... read more »
  
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  Quality Satire
  
  Mr Morris let loose with some proper TV making kit. Absolutely superb. Quickly lost count of the amount of times I laughed during each episode. And I can count ... read more »
  
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  Its Iannucci - You'll either get it or you won't
  
  I watched this on TV first time around and I'd forgotten how excellent it was. Laugh out loud funny at times. Fav bits for me are the interplays between the... read more »
  
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Tony Soprano meets Alan Partridge in the Loop
- 01 May 2008
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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  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 ...