The Thick of It - Season 1
Set in the corridors of power and spin, the Minister for Social Affairs is continually harassed by Number 10's policy enforcer and dependent on his not-so-reliable team of civil servants.
30 November 1975, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
28 November 1988
17 February 1976, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, UK
14 April 1975
10 January 1964, Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, England, UK
17 December 1966, Guildford, Surrey, England, UK
1953
August 31, 2018
As realistic as the producers make it look, shooting improvised dialogue with handheld cameras in dowdy offices...it's always going to be farcical and ridiculous, because that's what the business of governing is like.
September 26, 2020
Armando Iannucci's outrageous funny satire of the inner workings of the British government... one suspects, is more barely disguised reality show than fiction.
February 26, 2020
I didn't know I could cackle like a witch discovering a fresh supply of eye of newt, but cackle I could. And cry until the tears dried on my cheeks.