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Nice interview with Dave about the new television series he is writing.

Bring it on. ;D
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Can't wait for Dave's new series 8-)
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For those that missed it or live outside Manchester.

<MEN 17/12/03>
Headline “Another scoop for Spikey”


Things just keep getting better for comedian Dave Spikey, who is getting a taste for the headlines after rave reviews for his successful tour and winning the Best Performance gong at the Manchester Evening News Theatre awards.

For I can exclusively reveal that Dave, who played Jerry “The Saint” St Clair in Phoenix Nights as well as being the co-writer for the cult series, is penning a sitcom of his own for ITV.

Dead Man Weds, based on a newspaper office in a small Lancashire town, is to air in 2004 and promises prime-time success for the stand-up.

The show already has the backing of Red Production, the team behind Clocking Off and Queer As Folk.

Dave started writing the sitcom in 1995 but shelved it because of Phoenix Nights and his Overnight Success tour.

He says “Doing this sitcom for ITV is a big deal for me and the pressure’s on.

“It’ll be ok though because Red Productions are involved and they’ve got brilliant writers.

“I’ve put myself forward for acting parts but if Red say they want Robson Green I won’t argue”

Inspiration for the series came when Dave was working at a Bolton hospital.

He drove past a newsagent and saw the headline ‘Dead Man Weds’. “I nearly crashed the car because I had visions of a man in a coffin at the reception. But the story was about a bloke who came back to life and went on to get married,” he tells me.

“Newspapers come out with amazing headlines like ‘Local women make lovely carpets’ and ‘Stolen car found by tree’.

“I love the English language and playing on words – that’s what attracted me to writing about a newspaper office – and people in the sitcom are working there because they can’t get jobs at other papers.

“There’s a huge story every week and they’re that hopeless that they miss it every time.

“I love the idea of an editor coming out of his office, holding up a piece of paper and saying: ‘Who wrote this?’ And I will be getting tips for my sitcom – but not from real newspapers.”

You know where we are if you change your mind Dave.
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