The Thick Of It
- TV sitcom
- BBC Two / BBC Four
- 2005 - 2012
- 23 episodes (4 series)
Satirical political sitcom. Number 10's foul-mouthed policy enforcer Malcolm Tucker rules the Government's PR team with an iron fist. Stars Peter Capaldi, Chris Addison, James Smith, Joanna Scanlan, Rebecca Front and more.
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Series 3, Episode 2
Nicola Murray MP has been Secretary of State for just over a week but already there is press speculation on how long she is going to last. And now, someone at the Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship has completely wiped the immigration records of 170,672 people.
Further details
Nicola Murray MP has been Secretary of State for just over a week. Already, there is press speculation on how long she is going to last. And now, someone at the Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship has completely wiped the immigration records of 170,672 people.
Who's going to get the blame? Who's going to get the job of breaking the news to Malcolm? And how is Nicola going to get through an entire lunch with the staff of The Guardian without revealing the catastrophic scale of the latest computer disaster?
Broadcast details
- Date
- Saturday 31st October 2009
- Time
- 10:10pm
- Channel
- BBC Two
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Peter Capaldi | Malcolm Tucker |
| Chris Addison | Oliver Reeder |
| James Smith | Glenn Cullen |
| Joanna Scanlan | Terri Coverley |
| Rebecca Front | Nicola Murray |
| Polly Kemp | Robyn Murdoch |
| Peter Sullivan | Geoffrey (Guardian Editor) |
| Alex Lowe | John (Guardian Journalist) |
| Judith Faultless | Guardian Journalist |
| Zoe Telford | Marianne Swift (Freelance Journalist) |
| Jesse Armstrong | Writer |
| Ian Martin | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Roger Drew | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Will Smith | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Martin Sixsmith | Script Development |
| Kate Conway | Script Development |
| Simon Blackwell | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Armando Iannucci | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Tony Roche | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Sean Gray | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Armando Iannucci | Director |
| Adam Tandy | Producer |
| Mark Freeland | Executive Producer |
| Armando Iannucci | Executive Producer |
| Anthony Boys (as Ant Boys) | Editor |
| Simon Rogers | Production Designer |