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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The Thick Of It wins at Broadcasting Press Guild Awards
BBC political satire The Thick of It has won three prizes at this year's annual Broadcasting Press Guild Awards.
BBC News, 26th March 2010Mark Thompson and The Thick Of It video mashup
Just when BBC director general Mark Thompson thought his Newsnight encounter with Jeremy Paxman couldn't get any worse... it does. A BBC 6 Music fan has combined the best bits of Thommo's interview, such as they were, with clips from Armando Iannucci's The Thick Of It.
Media Monkey, The Guardian, 5th March 2010The ailing government is spiralling into the abyss and Malcolm Tucker (Peter Capaldi) is both waving and drowning when he tries to charm a group of journalists with his customary bravado. There's a real sense of panic in the penultimate episode of the skin-piercing satire. The arrival at DOSAC of Steve Fleming (a terrifying David Haig), Malcolm's bête noir and fellow spinner, has pitched everyone into chaos. There's something almost frightening about The Thick of It when it's this intense, and when Fleming and Tucker have a titanic, foul-mouthed battle, be afraid.
Alison Graham, Radio Times, 27th February 2010Doctor Who v Malcolm Tucker in awards face-off
Actors playing foul-mouthed spin doctor and timelord both nominated in BPG best actor category.
John Plunkett, The Guardian, 18th February 2010The Thick Of It wins South Bank Show Award
The Thick Of It won the comedy award at today's South Bank Show Awards.
British Comedy Guide, 26th January 2010The Best Sitcoms Of 2009
It doesn't matter how many times I read that the sitcom is dead - I still watch every single one that comes on the telly, because my love for the medium is infinite.
Jack Seale, Radio Times, 23rd December 2009Pop culture 2009: The ten best TV moments of the year
Covers Psychoville, Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, Peep Show, The Thick of It and Misfits.
Will Dean, Malik Meer & Richard Vine, The Guardian, 19th December 2009As our real-life Government entered what are quite possibly its death throes, so did the fictitious government in Armando Iannucci's uproarious political sitcom. Rebecca Front arrived to play a hand-wringing minister but the focal point was, as ever, Peter Capaldi's vicious spin doctor, Malcolm Tucker. Weirdly, Tucker's sacking in the penultimate episode proved one of the saddest moments on TV this year.
The Telegraph, 16th December 2009The Thick Of It series 3 episode 8 review
The finale of The Thick Of It's latest series leaves us thirsting for a lot, lot more...
Andrew Mickel, Den Of Geek, 14th December 2009The Thick Of It was comedy of the year, no contest. Well there was a contest, because geriatric ward sitcom Getting On was also a hoot. But it only ran for three episodes - there must be more, surely? - so it doesn't really count. But when it came to the sheer delirious joy of ented spleen splatting off the walls of the corridors of power, The Thick Of It's scabrous language warmed the cancerous cockles of my scurvy heart.
The fall and rise of Malcolm Tucker gave the mighty Peter Capaldi a fiesta of invectives, but it was no one-man show. Everywhere you turned, the lunacy of political spin was sent screaming through the mincer. The prize quote in the climactic episode came when one spin-crazed monkey announced: 'We're going to be triangulating to a semi-aggressive tactical grid.' Which got the only valid response possible: 'You're talking s***.'
Keith Watson, Metro, 14th December 2009