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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2017 22:32:44 GMT
all but one of the main cast is still with us, is it worth considering?
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Post by anothermanicmondas on Mar 18, 2017 22:53:15 GMT
I wouldn't think so - the final series was too focussed on sending the characters their seperate ways, bringing them back together would seem to be undoing the ending - that approach wasn't good for the Brittas Empire.
Also the TV series was focussed on keeping some topical elements which seem more suited to the TV schedule than the Big Finish approach.
Also, would Big Finish want to do such a series? - I don't pretend to know the answer but it is very different to their normal material
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Post by jasonward on Mar 18, 2017 22:58:27 GMT
Drop The Dead Donkey's quirk was it being right up to date, of its moment.
BF could of course, in theory do a Drop The Dead Donkey with the original cast, but it couldn't catch the of the moment feel, and I'm not at all sure without that, that what would be created would be Drop The Dead Donkey except in name.
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Post by charlesuirdhein on Mar 27, 2017 18:36:17 GMT
Ah, I did like it but in the much faster paced social media world I don't see it working,
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Post by chrisscorkscrew on Mar 27, 2017 19:10:19 GMT
all but one of the main cast is still with us, is it worth considering? Very sad - I didn't realise David Swift had passed away.
With regard to your idea, it could work, if they went along the same lines as Drop the Dead Donkey 2000. This was a novelisation of a film version of the series which was never made and was set in 2000 (whilst being written in 1994).
The book itself is very funny - the usual cut-and-thrust of the characters against a backdrop of unlikely fictional news stories (the brutal civil war in Switzerland, the outcome of Prince Charles' referendum on the monarchy) - and if Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin cared to develop a series of episodes set, say in 2025, Big Finish could make a cracking job of producing it.
Chriss C.
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Post by panda on Apr 11, 2017 18:32:34 GMT
Loved Drop The Dead Donkey! Had the aforementioned book and even did a brief talk about the show for an English assignment in high school (yes, I was an unusual child).
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2017 16:54:53 GMT
I'd really like to see a series of DTDD audios, even as a curio. I was watching it recently, it's up on the C4 website. Some of the specifically 1990s jokes have obviously aged but much of the politics is still relevant.
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