Dead Man Weds

{{Short description|British television comedy series}}

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Dead Man Weds is a six-part comedy series shown on ITV in Britain in January and early February 2005, and repeated on ITV2.{{cite web|last1=Thomas|first1=Liz|title=Spikey draws up painting sitcom {{!}} News {{!}} The Stage|url=https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/2004/spikey-draws-up-painting-sitcom/|website=thestage.co.uk|accessdate=19 April 2018|date=14 December 2004}}

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.{{cite news|last1=Rampton|first1=James|title=Johnny Vegas: Comedy's big hitter|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/johnny-vegas-comedys-big-hitter-5344989.html|accessdate=19 April 2018|work=The Independent|date=4 January 2005}}

The series concerns the staff of a fictional newspaper, The Fogburrow Advertiser,{{cite news|title=Spikey could film sitcom in Adlington|url=http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/5828707.Spikey_could_film_sitcom_in_Adlington/?ref=arc|accessdate=19 April 2018|work=The Bolton News|date=23 July 2004}} 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.{{cite news|title=Spikey reads all about it in LEP|url=https://www.lep.co.uk/news/spikey-reads-all-about-it-in-lep-1-99528|accessdate=19 April 2018|work=Lancashire Evening Post|date=7 October 2009}}

The series was filmed in several locations, including Castleton in Derbyshire.{{cite news|title=Mind your language and enjoy a Spikey night|url=https://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/news/mind-your-language-and-enjoy-a-spikey-night-1-3868477|accessdate=19 April 2018|work=The Sheffield Telegraph|date=14 October 2011}}

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.