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Imagine... The Academy Of Armando

Imagine... The Academy Of Armando

  • TV documentary
  • BBC One
  • 2025
  • 1 episode

A profile of satirist Armando Iannucci. Also features Alan Yentob, Michael Palin, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Steve Coogan, Chris Morris and more.

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Image shows left to right: Armando Iannucci, Alan Yentob

Key details

Genre
Documentary
Broadcast
2025
Channel
BBC One
Episodes
1
Features
Alan Yentob, Armando Iannucci, Michael Palin, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Steve Coogan, Chris Morris, Peter Capaldi, Rebecca Front and more
Directors
Catherine Abbott
Producers
Alan Yentob, Catherine Abbott and Tanya Hudson
Company

Alan Yentob profiles the stellar career of one of the great satirists of our age, Armando Iannucci, whose impressive body of work includes The Day Today, The Thick Of It, Veep, The Death Of Stalin and The Personal History Of David Copperfield.

With contributions from key collaborators such as Chris Morris, Steve Coogan, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Rebecca Front, Jesse Armstrong, Michael Palin and Peter Capaldi, Imagine... sheds light on Iannucci's unique creative process.

Catch-up

Additional details

Also known as
  • Imagine... The Academy Of Armando Iannucci
Picture
Colour

Broadcast details

First broadcast
Monday 3rd March 2025 at 10:40pm on BBC One
Episode length
75 minutes
All previous repeats
  • Thursday 13th March 2025 at 2:35am on BBC2

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