Hot Metal - The Complete Series DVD

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Robert Hardy (All Creatures Great & Small) takes a dual role in Andrew Marshall & David Renwick s (Whoops Apocalypse 2point 4 Children) razor-sharp satire depicting the ongoing shenanigans of the day-to-day running of a tabloid newspaper Co-starring Richard Wilson (One Foot in the Grave) as former TV presenter Dicky Lipton employed to clean up the newspaper Hot Metal was a cult success on its initial transmission & remains an outstandingly clever & wickedly funny comedy twenty years on Twiggy Rathbone newpaper tycoon & owner of Rathouse International relaunches his Daily Crucible newspaper as a completely downmarket sex & sleaze-centric tabloid To aid him in this crusade he brings in South African newspaper editor Russell Spam whose job is to deflect the complaints of the old guard & re-employ bottom-of-the-barrel reporters like Greg Kettle the sort of person who thinks nothing of using a medium to interview victims of capital punishment