Dead Man Weds

Dead Man Weds is a six-part comedy series shown on ITV in Britain in January and early February 2005, and repeated on ITV2.^[1]

Dead Man Weds
Genre	Comedy
Written by	Dave Spikey
Starring	Dave Spikey and Johnny Vegas
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of episodes	6
Production
Production company	Red Production Company
Original release
Network	ITV
Release	January 2005 (2005-01) – February 2005 (2005-02)

The series was written by Dave Spikey, who played the part of Jerry St Clair in Phoenix Nights. It was produced for ITV by the Red Production Company, and starred Spikey and Johnny Vegas.^[2]

The series concerns the staff of a fictional newspaper, The Fogburrow Advertiser,^[3] and the title of the series is a typical example of the paper's front-page headlines; Spikey saw the headline on a newspaper billboard about a man who had died but was resuscitated and then later married. The billboard did not have quote marks around the word dead, which made Spikey laugh and so he developed the sitcom from that headline.^[4]

The series was filmed in several locations, including Castleton in Derbyshire.^[5]

The theme music, also used as incidental music and stings throughout the series, is a version of Jonathan King's composition "It's Good News Week", which was a hit for Hedgehoppers Anonymous in 1965.