"coincidentally ended up occurring only two days after Peter Capaldi was announced as the new star of ""Doctor Who"". (Even more coincidental, a cast commentary included as part of a photo gallery featurette for the episode ""Rise of the Nutters"" included in the DVD set, recorded several years earlier, has several cast members jokingly deciding to start a rumour that Capaldi is to be the next Doctor.) ""The Thick of It: The Scripts"", a book containing the scripts from the first two series and the 2007 specials, was published on 1 September 2007. A tie-in book, ""The Thick Of It:"
"e-mails between Malcolm Tucker and another Iannucci character, Alan Partridge, on the topic of Britain's exit from the European Union was published in The Big Issue in October 2017 in print and online. Videos The Thick of It The Thick of It is a British comedy television series that satirises the inner workings of modern British government. It was first broadcast for two short series on BBC Four in 2005, initially with a small cast focusing on a government minister, his advisers and their party's spin-doctor. The cast was significantly expanded for two hour-long specials to coincide with Christmas and"
"on the BBC's ""Britain's Best Sitcom"", Iannucci devised, directed and was chief writer of ""The Thick of It"", a political satire-cum-farce for BBC Four. It starred Chris Langham as an incompetent cabinet minister being manipulated by a cynical Press Officer, Malcolm Tucker. It was first broadcast for two short series on BBC Four in 2005, initially with a small cast focusing on a government minister, his advisers and their party's spin-doctor. The cast was significantly expanded for two hour-long specials to coincide with Christmas and Gordon Brown's appointment as prime minister in 2007, which saw new characters forming the opposition"
"The Thick of It The Thick of It is a British comedy television series that satirises the inner workings of modern British government. It was first broadcast for two short series on BBC Four in 2005, initially with a small cast focusing on a government minister, his advisers and their party's spin-doctor. The cast was significantly expanded for two hour-long specials to coincide with Christmas and Gordon Brown's appointment as prime minister in 2007, which saw new characters forming the opposition party added to the cast. These characters continued when the show switched channels to BBC Two for its third"
"doctor Malcolm Tucker in the BBC comedy series ""The Thick of It"". Capaldi had previously appeared on the show as Caecilius in ""The Fires of Pompeii"". He also played John Frobisher in the ""Doctor Who"" spin-off """". In October 2013, actress Neve McIntosh stated in an interview that recurring characters Madame Vastra, Jenny Flint and Strax (known to fans as ""the Paternoster Gang"") were due to return in the series premiere ""Deep Breath"". On 24 February 2014, it was announced that ""Gavin & Stacey"" actor Samuel Anderson will join the cast as the recurring character Danny Pink, a teacher and"
"is part of the plot of the television comedy ""The Thick of It"", in which the character of the prime minister's director of communications (or, as he is referred to by other characters, the ""enforcer""), Malcolm Tucker, is portrayed as an aggressive, foul-mouthed Scotsman. Many of the members of Tucker's staff, such as his No. 2, Jamie MacDonald, are also belligerent Scotsmen. The term has also been applied to the group of Scottish footballers who won several domestic and European honours in the 1960s and 70s while playing for the English first division club Leeds United; namely goalkeeper David Harvey"
"while his mother was born in Glasgow to an Italian family. Before emigrating, Iannucci's father wrote for an anti-fascist newspaper as a teenager and joined the Italian partisans at 17. He came to Scotland in 1950 and ran a pizza factory in Springburn. Iannucci has two brothers and a sister. His childhood home was near that of actor Peter Capaldi, who went on to play Malcolm Tucker in ""The Thick of It"", a TV show created by Iannucci; although their parents knew each other well, he and Capaldi did not know each other in childhood. Iannucci was educated at St"
"Alastair Campbell"". It is also widely believed that the character of Malcolm Tucker from the BBC political satire comedy ""The Thick of It"" is loosely based on Campbell. Tucker is famous for his short fuse and use of very strong language. In an interview with Mark Kermode on BBC2's ""The Culture Show"", Campbell denied that the two are similar in any relevant way, but admitted to his liberal use of profanities in the workplace. The interview descended into argument with Campbell accusing the likes of Mark Kermode and the show's creator Armando Iannucci of being responsible for people's cynicism with"
"the family comedy film ""Paddington"" and its sequel ""Paddington 2"". In 2018, he voiced Rabbit in the Disney film ""Christopher Robin"". Prior to taking over the lead role in ""Doctor Who"", Capaldi was best known for playing spin doctor Malcolm Tucker in the Armando Ianucci-written BBC sitcom ""The Thick of It"", which he played from 2005 to 2012. Tucker is said to be largely, if loosely, based upon Tony Blair's right-hand man Alastair Campbell, although Capaldi has said that he based his performance more on Hollywood power players, such as the often abrasive Harvey Weinstein. A film spin-off from ""The"
"Social Enterprise UK in 2017. Chris Addison Christopher David Addison (born 5 November 1971) is an English comedian, writer, actor and director. He is perhaps best known for his role as a regular panellist on ""Mock the Week"". He is also known for his lecture-style comedy shows, two of which he later adapted for BBC Radio 4. In addition to stand-up, Addison played Ollie Reeder in the BBC Two satire series ""The Thick of It"" and Toby Wright in its spin-off film ""In the Loop"", starred in the Sky Living comedy-drama ""Trying Again"" and appeared in several episodes of series"
"Tucker fires him from cabinet before he is able to do so. A new Minister for International Development arrives at the office. The actors include Tom Hollander, who went on to appear in one episode of ""The Thick of It"", Gina McKee, Steve Coogan, and seven American actors including James Gandolfini, Mimi Kennedy, David Rasche and Anna Chlumsky, the last of whom later starred in Iannucci's HBO satire ""Veep"". Several actors from ""The Thick of It"" appear in the film, including Peter Capaldi, Chris Addison, Paul Higgins, James Smith, Alex MacQueen, Olivia Poulet, and Joanna Scanlan, and also, in very"
"State Department to conduct ""a complete review of their security procedures"". Sean Gray Sean Gray (born 15 June 1983) is a comedy writer, producer and director. He is known for his work on the HBO series ""Veep"" and the BAFTA-winning BBC series ""The Thick of It"" and ""Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle"". He is a two-time Emmy-winner and Golden Globe-nominee. Gray graduated from Oxford University. During his time at Oxford he wrote for and edited the university magazine Isis, and has explained that this ""was basically just an excuse to write funny stuff for an audience"". Gray started writing comedy sketches"
"election. He wrote in ""The Guardian"": ""To win over public opinion, Labour must reflect it. Is that right? I think that's right. I think that's why they're all doing this synchronised frowning at poor repellent-ebullient Jeremy Corbyn and pretending he's a weirdo."" Ian Martin (writer) Ian Martin (born 1953) is an English Emmy award-winning comedy writer. Ian was a writer for the BAFTA-winning BBC series ""The Thick Of It"". He was famously hired as ‘swearing consultant’ in 2005 by the show’s creator, Armando Iannucci, for Series 1 of the political satire and went on to become a full member of"
"Miles Jupp Miles Hugh Barrett Jupp (born 8 September 1979) is an English comedian and actor. Beginning his career as a stand-up comedian, he first became well known on British television for playing the role of the inventor Archie in the children's television series ""Balamory"". His profile rose in Britain after appearances on comedy panel shows, and roles as John Duggan in ""The Thick of It"" and Nigel in the sitcom ""Rev"". In September 2015, Jupp replaced Sandi Toksvig as the host of ""The News Quiz"" on BBC Radio 4. Jupp was born in Newcastle upon Tyne and spent most"
"Chris Langham Christopher Langham (born 14 April 1949) is an English writer, actor, and comedian. He is known for playing the cabinet minister Hugh Abbot in the BBC Four sitcom ""The Thick of It"", and as presenter Roy Mallard in ""People Like Us"", first on BBC Radio 4 and later on its transfer to television on BBC Two, where Mallard is almost entirely an unseen character. He subsequently created several spoof adverts in the same vein. He also played similar unseen interviewers in an episode of the television series ""Happy Families"" and in the film ""The Big Tease"". He is"
"writ runs through the lifeblood of Westminster like raw alcohol, at once cleansing and corroding"" (""The Daily Telegraph""); ""If you make eye contact with Malcolm Tucker, you have spilled his pint"" (""The Times""); and ""Iago with a BlackBerry"" (""The Spectator""). Malcolm is one of four ""Spin doctors"" featured on the show, the others being Cal Richards (Tom Hollander), Steve Fleming (David Haig), and Stewart Pearson (Vincent Franklin), the former three of whom make up the three spin doctors that are universally feared by ministers and civil servants alike. Cal Richards, nicknamed ""The Fucker"", is arguably the one person in British"
"Dan Miller MP in the BBC political comedy ""The Thick of It"". He was a main character of the music video ""Giant peach"" by Wolf Alice. He appeared in a variety of roles in Tracey Ullman's Show from 2016. Tony Gardner Tony Gardner (born 10 January 1964) is an English actor and doctor. He qualified as a doctor at Guy's Hospital in 1987, then as a general practitioner in 1993. He combined medicine and comedy during the 1990s as half of the award-winning comedy duo ""Struck Off and Die"" with Phil Hammond. He eventually left medicine to become an actor,"
"is a caricature of the civil service predominantly characterised through Nigel Hawthorne's Sir Humphrey Appleby. ""The Thick of It"", first broadcast in 2005, is a similar BBC television series that has been called ""the 21st century's answer to Yes Minister"". The series portrays a modernised version of the interactions between the Civil Service and the Government (chiefly in the form of special advisors), as well as the media's involvement in the process. There is a long history of civil servants who are also literary authors, who often comment on their own institutions, including such writers as John Milton, John Dryden,"
"of some ""The Thick of It"" writers and production members. Armando Iannucci originally conceived of a modern political satire after ""arguing the case"" for ""Yes Minister"" in a 2004 Best British Sitcom poll for BBC Two. His idea was commissioned by Roly Keating, the controller of BBC Four, who granted Iannucci limited budget, telling him to ""turn that into what you can."" Iannucci created the first series of three episodes, which aired in May–June 2005, and a second series, also of three episodes, which followed in October. The series is written by a team of writers led by Armando Iannucci,"
"Thick of It"" called ""In the Loop"" (in which Capaldi returned to the role of Tucker), was released in 2009. The role of Tucker won Capaldi several awards. In 2006, 2008 and 2010 he was nominated for the BAFTA and RTS Best Comedy Actor Awards. He won the 2010 BAFTA Television Award for Male Performance in a Comedy Role. He also won the 2010 and 2012 British Comedy Award for Best TV Comedy Actor. He received another BAFTA Award nomination in 2013. Capaldi was cast in 2013 as the Doctor in the BBC science-fiction series ""Doctor Who"". His casting was"
"Jesse Armstrong Jesse Armstrong is a British comedy writer, best known for the Channel 4 sitcom ""Peep Show"", the BBC political satire ""The Thick of It"", and the HBO drama series ""Succession"". Born (c. 1972) in Oswestry in Shropshire, he attended a comprehensive school there before studying American Studies at the University of Manchester, where he met his writing partner Sam Bain. Before going into comedy writing in the late 1990s, Armstrong worked as a researcher for the Labour MP Doug Henderson. At the beginning of their writing career, Armstrong and Bain wrote for the Channel 4 sketch show ""Smack"
"Chris Addison Christopher David Addison (born 5 November 1971) is an English comedian, writer, actor and director. He is perhaps best known for his role as a regular panellist on ""Mock the Week"". He is also known for his lecture-style comedy shows, two of which he later adapted for BBC Radio 4. In addition to stand-up, Addison played Ollie Reeder in the BBC Two satire series ""The Thick of It"" and Toby Wright in its spin-off film ""In the Loop"", starred in the Sky Living comedy-drama ""Trying Again"" and appeared in several episodes of series 8 of ""Doctor Who"". He"
"and near-future from the year 2031. One episode, featuring fictional terrorist attacks on London and the assassination of Tony Blair, was postponed and edited in August 2006 amid the terrorism scares in British airports at that time. Jane Thynne, writing in ""The Independent"", accused the BBC of lacking backbone. He created the American HBO political satire television series ""Veep"", starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, set in the office of Selina Meyer, a fictional Vice-President of the United States. ""Veep"" uses a similar cinéma-vérité filming style to ""The Thick of It"". Debuting in 2012, the show has aired six seasons, with its sixth"
"James Smith (actor) James Smith (born 1948) who trained at LAMDA, is an English actor well known for his part in the BBC's ""The Thick of It"" (22 episodes) as senior special adviser Glenn Cullen and as Michael Rodgers, Director of Diplomacy at the Foreign Office in ""In the Loop"", the film spin off of ""The Thick of It"". From 9 August 2010 Smith plays Clive in the BBC comedy ""Grandma's House"". He also took a minor non-speaking role as Lord Carrington in the 2011 film ""The Iron Lady"". In 2014 he appeared in ""Boomers"" as Trevor. He played Graham"
"Thick of It"", Iannucci's political satire set in the fictional government Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship. The first series debuted on the BBC in 2005, and became a critical success. Roche wrote for all four series of the programme, as well as its spin-off film ""In the Loop"", which was nominated for the 2010 Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay). His other writing credits include ""The All New Harry Hill Show"" (ITV1), ""Alistair McGowan's Big Impression"" (BBC Two), ""Smith & Jones"" (BBC One), ""Dead Ringers"" (BBC Radio 4), ""Miranda"" (BBC Two), the disability mockumentary drama ""Cast Offs"" for"
"Word of the Year, and it was formally added to the online editions of the ""Oxford Dictionary of English"" in August 2013. The term, coined by writer Tony Roche, was first used at the end of the first episode of the third series of BBC political satire ""The Thick of It"", broadcast in 2009, during which Nicola Murray (Rebecca Front) is drafted in as a cabinet minister for the fictional Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship at the behest of the government's director of communications Malcolm Tucker (Peter Capaldi). Murray's first day as a cabinet minister is fraught with press"
"Ian Martin (writer) Ian Martin (born 1953) is an English Emmy award-winning comedy writer. Ian was a writer for the BAFTA-winning BBC series ""The Thick Of It"". He was famously hired as ‘swearing consultant’ in 2005 by the show’s creator, Armando Iannucci, for Series 1 of the political satire and went on to become a full member of the writing team. Ian won an Emmy for his writing across five series of VEEP and was Bafta nominated for co-writing The Death of Stalin. Martin was born in London and has lived in Lancaster since 1988. Ian Martin edits the satirical"
"Justin Edwards (actor) Justin Matthew Edwards is an English actor and writer. Television work includes the role of Ben Swain in political comedy ""The Thick of It"", the lead role in Channel 5 sitcom ""Respectable"", roles in ""Black Books"", ""Endeavour"",""The Suspicions of Mr Whicher"", ""The Old Guys"", ""Skins"", ""Secret Diary of a Call Girl"", ""The Trip"", ""Veep"""", ""Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle"", and ""Black Mirror"" amongst many others. He won an RTS award in 2014 for best male actor for his performance in ""Father Brown"" (""The Daughters of Jerusalem""). He has played Jeremy Clarkson three times for television, twice for"" Harry"
"Watkins in the 2017 mockumentary, ""Carnage"". James Smith (actor) James Smith (born 1948) who trained at LAMDA, is an English actor well known for his part in the BBC's ""The Thick of It"" (22 episodes) as senior special adviser Glenn Cullen and as Michael Rodgers, Director of Diplomacy at the Foreign Office in ""In the Loop"", the film spin off of ""The Thick of It"". From 9 August 2010 Smith plays Clive in the BBC comedy ""Grandma's House"". He also took a minor non-speaking role as Lord Carrington in the 2011 film ""The Iron Lady"". In 2014 he appeared in"
"James Doherty (actor) James Doherty (born 17 December 1966) is an English actor. Born in Guildford, Surrey, he was educated at Felsted School in Essex and was a member of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. He trained at the Guildford School of Acting Graduating in 1989. He is married to TV presenter Joanna Sinnott and together they have two children, Jago & Nell. Doherty is best known for his appearances in TV comedy including roles in The Thick Of It, ""Rev"", ""Miranda"", ""Watson & Oliver"", ""Mongrels"" and ""A Touch Of Cloth"" and ""Is Harry on the Boat?"". His"
"Armstrong and Sam Bain. He had previously collaborated with them on the Channel 4 sitcom ""Peep Show"" and BBC One's ""The Old Guys"". In 2016, Blackwell created the sitcom ""Back"" starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb. It premiered on Channel 4 on the 6th of September, 2017. Simon Blackwell Simon John Blackwell (born 27 May 1966) is a comedy writer and producer. He is best known for his work on ""The Thick of It"", ""In The Loop"" and ""Veep"", and for his collaborations with Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain on ""Peep Show"", ""Four Lions"" and ""The Old Guys"". Blackwell started"
"of subsequent ministerial resignations and appointments this is already out of date Gordon Brown released a full list of special advisers as of 22 November 2007. Fiction set within the Westminster village frequently includes characters that are special advisers, such as Frank Weisel in ""Yes Minister"" and Glen Cullen in ""The Thick of It"" at the ministerial level, and figures like Malcolm Tucker (also of ""The Thick of It"") seen operating at the apex of power, often overriding or manipulating Prime Ministers and other world leaders. Special adviser (UK) A special adviser works in a supporting role to the British"
"Sean Gray Sean Gray (born 15 June 1983) is a comedy writer, producer and director. He is known for his work on the HBO series ""Veep"" and the BAFTA-winning BBC series ""The Thick of It"" and ""Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle"". He is a two-time Emmy-winner and Golden Globe-nominee. Gray graduated from Oxford University. During his time at Oxford he wrote for and edited the university magazine Isis, and has explained that this ""was basically just an excuse to write funny stuff for an audience"". Gray started writing comedy sketches as a student and has cited Peter Cook as the comedian"