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The Thick of It: Series 1-4

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Winner RTS Awards: Comedy Writing; BAFTA Winner: Best Sitcom
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Creator Armando Ianucci Director Armando Ianucci Starring
  • Roger Allam
  • Peter Capaldi
  • Vincent Franklin
  • Rebecca Front
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    Production Company BBC Productions
    Broadcaster BBC2

    The award-winning satirical comedy returns to BBC2 for a fourth series.

    Series four sees a new Coalition government in power with Peter Mannion the new Secretary of State for Social Affairs and Nicola Murray now in opposition and newly promoted as Party leader. 

    Reviews

    scabrously funny, stuffed with great lines and a pleasure to watch Tom Sutcliffe
    The Independent

    the script still stings with richness and the gags fly in laugh-out-loud layers as the Con-Dem pairing rub against each other poisonously Alex Hardy
    The Times     Full Review

    nailed Cameron’s coalition as a Dad’s Army of incompetents led, although we never see them, by two Sgt Wilsons Andrew Billen
    The Times     Full Review

    The lines are so good I immediately watched the whole thing through again. Sam Wollaston
    The Guardian

    [a] superb episode Andrew Billen
    The Times     Full Review

    Not just sparkling, but also tense and claustrophobic. I even felt a bit moved... Satire at its very very best, a brilliant piece of television. Sam Wollaston
    The Guardian

    It was both very funny and also the closest thing we've had to serious political drama on television for far too long Tom Sutcliffe
    The Independent

    in an hour of gloriously seat-squirming, self-serving comedy, The Thick of It nailed it... This was political farce played to perfection Keith Watson
    Metro     Full Review

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