Ben Miller to guest star in Doctor Who

Ben Miller is set to guest star opposite Peter Capaldi when the new series of Doctor Who returns this autumn.

Armando Iannucci interview

The Alan Partridge writer on turning 50, 'Alanistas' and why Peter Capaldi will make a great Doctor Who.

Armando Iannucci would love to write for Peter Capaldi

Writer and commentator Armando Iannucci has said he'd love to pen an episode of Doctor Who for his pal Peter Capaldi whose turn as Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It has gone down in television lore.

Peter Capaldi Fringe sketch censored after walk out

A sketch featuring Malcolm Tucker as Doctor Who has been removed from a show following three complaints and a walk out.

Armando Iannucci on helping Peter Capaldi

Armando and Peter - both Glasgow born Italian Scots - go way back together and it was the writer's casting of Capaldi as Malcolm Tucker on BBC show The Thick of It which helped relaunch the new Doctor Who's career.

Doctor Who: what would it be like with Malcolm Tucker?

Peter Capaldi, who played the foul-mouthed spin doctor in The Thick of It, is now to play the Time Lord. What if he played the Doctor in the same sweary way? We imagine the scene.

Peter Capaldi: Thick Of It shouldn't return for a while

The Thick Of It star Peter Capaldi has said he doesn't think the show should return to the air anytime soon.

Peter Capaldi on life after The Thick of It

Peter Capaldi has a solemn announcement to make: Malcolm is no more.

The last full series of Armando Iannucci's blistering satire brought us a coalition government, carrying an innefectual junior partner and fighting a weak, disorganised opposition. But aside from the contemporary echoes, the show stuck to what's been its central point all along: that so much modern politics is a series of PR stunts and botches, conceived not to make the world better but to get or keep power. The hour-long inquiry episode was riveting, Roger Allam shone as the newly empowered (in theory) Peter Mannion, and Peter Capaldi's fearsome spin doctor Malcolm Tucker bowed out in a final episode to rank with any sitcom finale.

Peter Capaldi broke from the venom of The Thick of It to deliver this affectionate one-off comedy, a spoof documentary about the output of a fictional British studio in the early 20th Century. Clearly a labour of love for Capaldi and his co-writer Tony Roche, Cricklewood Greats was a stuffed stocking spilling over with subtle gags and perfect miniature parodies. Aimed squarely at film and comedy buffs, this was possibly the most BBC4-ish show of the year and all the more delightful for it.