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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Press clippings Page 21
Peter Capaldi: 'People ask me to tell them to #@*! off'
After playing everyone's favourite foul-mouthed spin doctor in The Thick of It, Peter Capaldi was surely destined for Hollywood. But as the actor tells Gerard Gilbert, he's no Hugh Laurie...
Gerard Gilbert, The Independent, 10th April 2011New series of The Thick of It commissioned
The Thick of It, Armando Iannucci's brilliantly vituperative political satire, has been recommissioned for a fourth series.
The Telegraph, 24th March 2011Your next box set: The Thick of It
The Thick Of It creates an outrageously ugly picture of politics - and still makes you laugh, and laugh.
Toby Manning, The Guardian, 18th March 2011It's party conference season and hapless Secretary of State of Social Affairs and Citizenship Nicola Murray is in Eastbourne with her team of self-serving apparatchiks, as the repeats of series three of Armando Iannucci's satire continue on Gold. Yet again, watching is like being caught in a firestorm of expletives and deliriously offensive jokes. It's a relentlessly testosterone-charged world - Nicola Murray even remarks at one point, "It's like being trapped in a boys' toilet" - packed with macho posturing from egomaniacal men behaving like competitive baboons. And it's brilliant. Look out for the memorable scene where Malcolm Tucker gets physical with a misguidedly assertive Glenn.
Alison Graham, Radio Times, 9th March 2011Spin doctor Malcolm Tucker is back in a blizzard of vituperation as Gold repeats series three of Armando Iannucci's peerless political satire. Tucker is doling out his "verbal colonics" to a new Secretary of State (splendid Rebecca Front, in a role that won her a Bafta). The inventive expletives bounce off the walls in firework displays of pure filth and bad taste. The dexterousness of the insults remains a marvel, as does the sublime supporting cast - Chris Addison and James Smith - of useless apparatchiks.
Alison Graham, Radio Times, 23rd February 2011Has the humour left British politics?
The Thick of It satirised the final years of New Labour. But will it find much to laugh at in a coalition that's already unravelling?
Jonathan Jones, The Guardian, 18th February 2011Peter Capaldi's still in the loop
Malcolm Tucker might be fictional, but that doesn't stop Peter Capaldi being pestered for comment about the demise of Andy Coulson.
Monkey, The Guardian, 27th January 2011HBO to film political comedy series 'Veep' next month
It's official: HBO's upcoming political satire series "Veep," starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, will be filmed on a Baltimore movie set next month.
Christina Wilkie, The Washington Post, 11th January 2011The Thick of It iPhone app developer interview
The Thick Of It iPhone app, Malcom Tucker: The Missing Phone, went on sale this afternoon and during the hullabalo of Twitter going mad for it, we caught up with Dave Addey, MD of Agant the co-creators of the app.
Mic Wright, Electric Pig, 16th December 2010Mandelson: the best of The Thick of It's Steve Fleming
Lord Mandelson is thought to be the inspiration for Steve Fleming, the Former Minister without Portfolio, in the BBC Two satirical series The Thick of It. This video is a compilation of some of the fictional politician's best moments.
Simon Horsford, The Telegraph, 23rd November 2010