The Day Today on DVD (1994)

A customer from Portsmouth , 27/07/2004

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

  28 out of 31 people found this review helpful

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Vengeful Hedgehog from London, England , 26/07/2004

An extremely funny (yet bizarre) series, parodying a 24 hour news culture. Disc One is good, although the multi-angle function in show 3 is irritating and perfunctory. I particularly enjoyed the running theme of executions the American way, which ran through several shows.

Disc Two adds nothing to the set, and so is best ignored!

  10 out of 17 people found this review helpful

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Mike Conyard from Gosport, Hampshire [Highly rated reviewer] , 23/05/2005

The original news spoof... hasn't aged a bit.. and the American News footage still looks as good as ever. It still has the ability to draw you into thinking it's actually real.. fools my girlfriend every time she walk in the room! Excellent, this is vintage Morris..

  7 out of 7 people found this review helpful

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A customer from Scotland , 22/02/2008

Still the sharpest news satire ever made. Every bit of it - music, graphics, headlines, acting - is note perfect, managing to be savage and merciless while hysterically funny. Chris Morris is clearly a genius but the supporting cast- particularly Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge, Doon MacKichan as the wonderful and bizarre financial correspondent Collaterly Sisters, and David Schneider as anything - are equally brilliant. The only gripe is that at times the self-consciously surreality could do with toning down. But this is essential viewing for anyone who likes their comedy sharp and ridiculous. SImply fantastic.

  7 out of 7 people found this review helpful

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A customer from Dorset UK , 16/01/2006

All today's news presenters/producers should be made to watch this, so many of its 'spoof' features are now commonplace in current affairs programmes. The OTT opening graphics are almost mild by today's standards, the disembodied heads zooming around maps of the country like flying saucers have indeed as good as come to pass, the offensive, protentous, self-important, mocking, embarrassing, emotion-wringing interviewing is commonplace

  1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

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Edward Rogers from Bangor , 26/04/2005

Well what can I say? It's Chris Morris! The comedian (totally underrated in my opinion) blends his use of satire with the seemingly random spoof news articles perfectly, often resulting in hilarious sketches. It's outstanding how he gets members of the public to compare the law to a standard elastic band stretched over about 8 inches. If you liked this then you'd definately want to add 'Brasseye' to your selection.

  1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

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