Armando Iannucci

Armando Iannucci: Making In The Loop

I managed to break into the State Department when I was out in DC researching the movie. I had a terrible, amateur BBC identity pass, with basically my face printed off Google and my name under it. A child could have produced it in twenty seconds.

You could make it up

As a plot, it sounds far-fetched. A spat between political bloggers. A Downing Street adviser writes scurrilous e-mails about smearing the opposition. The story comes out and he resigns. All played out over a bank holiday weekend. Except that you could make it up - and it's likely that writer Armando Iannucci already has.

The Thick of It to return

A further eight episodes of BBC satirical comedy The Thick of It are in the pipeline, creator Armando Iannucci has confirmed. Iannucci said in an update today on social networking site Twitter that he was working on eight new scripts.

That's me and him from The Sopranos

In the Loop - a political farce set in London and Washington - is the brilliant cinematic debut of Armando Iannucci. Here, in a candid behind-the-scenes diary, the satirist reveals the joys of playing basketball with star James Gandolfini and the pleasure of a hometown screening in front of his eightysomething mum ...

In the Loop review

Anticipation surrounding Armando Iannucci's film directing debut has been high, as befits arguably the most influential man in British comedy over the last two decades, and In The Loop exceeds almost all of those expectations.

Armando Iannucci - Comedy of Errors

It's utterly fitting that Armando Iannucci's In the Loop opens this year's Glasgow Film festival. His debut film, like the festival, is brave, funny and a real crowd pleaser.

UK premiere for In The Loop

Armando Iannucci's In The Loop is to receive its British premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival next month. The spin-off from the BBC satire The Thick Of It will be unveiled at the Sundance Film Festival tonight, where it has already been highly praised by reviewers who attended a preview screening, before heading to Iannucci's birthplace.

Star of British TV satire set to conquer America

Armando Iannucci, creator of the BBC's acclaimed The Thick of It, heads a record number of British entries at the Sundance film festival with a new political comedy featuring the star of The Sopranos.

Armando's Loop gets Sundance premiere

Armando Iannucci's movie spin-off from The Thick of It is receive its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival next month. In The Loop - which stars James Gandolfini, Chris Addison, Peter Capaldi, and Steve Coogan - will have its first public screening on January 22.

The regular holiday replacement for The News Quiz/The Now Show returns as Armando Iannucci presents his version of a topical news quiz. It has no news, no rules and no quiz!

With the help of some itinerant humorists, the news is dissected and generally piffled around with, and each programme is recorded close to transmission. So although the line-up of subjects is yet to be finalised, it would take an idiot not to know that the Olympics will feature large, as will 'staycations' - the awfully named trend to holiday in the UK - and the US presidential shenanigans.