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Dead donkeys and deadly coffee form a heady mix

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19.09.2025

A Different View with Dave O’Connell

Television fans of a certain vintage will remember a nineties sitcom on Channel 4 called Drop the Dead Donkey; set in a television newsroom with a handful of caricatures rather than characters but no less memorable for that because it poked fun at the realities of life in the media world.

The title came from a phrase deployed at those editorial conferences where managers and editors determine (or guess) what tomorrow’s news might be.

Lots of television station like to have what they call an ‘And........

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