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.
- Series 1, Episode 1 repeated at 11:30pm on BBC Scotland
Streaming rank this week: 171
Press clippings Page 20
Peter Capaldi on his fear at meeting Alastair Campbell
Peter Capaldi admits he was terrified of former Downing Street spin doctor Alastair Campbell - because he was so nice.
Daily Record, 14th August 2011Malcolm Tucker iPhone app nominated for Bafta
An iPhone app for the comedy series The Thick of It has become the first smartphone app to be nominated for a Bafta.
Shane Richmond, The Telegraph, 27th April 2011Peter Capaldi talks Malcolm Tucker's future
When the third series of Armando Iannucci's political satire The Thick Of It ended in 2009, we feared it might be the end of the road for foul-mouthed government spin doctor Malcolm Tucker. Out of favour with a party which was subsequently chucked out of office, it was difficult to see how the rudest man in Scotland would fit back into series four.
On The Box, 20th April 2011US version of The Thick of It commissioned
The Thick of It creator Armando Iannucci has had a US version of the political satire commissioned by cable network HBO.
BBC News, 18th April 2011Peter 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 2011